Sign Letter Asking Congress to Fund National Housing Trust Fund

IS YOUR CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT REPRESENTED?
Sign on NOW to National Letter Asking Congress to Fund the National Housing Trust Fund!

Within the span of a week, organizations from every state, DC and Puerto Rico have signed on to the letter - Thank you for your action! Now, the goal is to get as many signatories as possible, including organizations from all 435 Congressional Districts, in order to urge every Member of Congress to support funding for the National Housing Trust Fund.

Please JOIN the national sign-on letter today. Please make sure every organization in your network or coalition signs on. If your name is not listed below, please SIGN the letter today!

• 1000 Friends of Florida
• Atlantic Enterprise Foundation Inc
• Center for Independent Living of South Florida, Inc.
• Christian Family Ministries
• FAHSA
• Florida Housing Coalition
• Florida Legal Services
• Lutheran Services Florida
• Miami Coalition for the Homeless, Inc.
• Pax Christi Northeast Florida
• St. Vincent's Hospital
• THE POWER U CENTER
• Tuo Frends, Inc.

Let your Members of Congress know that your organization supports the NHTF and that their support of the NHTF will help your state build and preserve housing for people with the lowest incomes, and create needed jobs.

Please SIGN the following letter:

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We, the undersigned organizations, urge Congress to act soon to provide the initial funding for the National Housing Trust Fund (NHTF). We are requesting $1.065 billion be provided immediately to the NHTF: $1 billion to capitalize the NHTF and $65 million for project-based vouchers to couple with NHTF capital grants.

The NHTF was created in the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 (HERA) to address the severe shortage of rental homes that are affordable for the lowest income families, but it has not yet been funded. The President proposed funding for the NHTF in his FY10 and FY11 budget requests.

In the United States today, there are only 37 rental homes available and affordable for every 100 households with incomes below 30% of their area median. A scarcity of housing that the poorest families can afford is the principle cause of homelessness in the United States.

Investment in the NHTF will create good jobs. Every $1 billion provided to the Trust Fund will support the immediate construction of 10,000 rental homes, creating 15,100 new construction jobs and 3,800 new jobs in ongoing operations.

We urge Congress to provide this badly needed funding at the soonest possible opportunity.

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Click HERE to add your organization's support today. Once your organization has signed, please forward this email to send it on to friends and coworkers, and urge their organizations to sign on as well.

Need to learn more about the National Housing Trust Fund before signing on? Click HERE for background information.

THANK YOU FOR SIGNING THIS LETTER TODAY!