Congress to make budget decisions this week

by Kate M. Kelly on November 1, 2011

Senate approved budget that
Flat funds McKinney, Cuts ,
, 202, 811 and more!

Advocate for Increased McKinney Homeless Funding Today!The Senate approved H.R. 2112 this afternoon. H.R. 2122 combined three of its FY 2012 appropriations bills (Transportation-; Agriculture; and Commerce, Justice, and Science) into one “mini-bus” piece of legislation.

House and Senate Appropriators are expected to negotiate the final spending bills immediately. Appropriations staff have already started discussing the final levels of funding for the bill.

This bill sets funding levels for HUD programs, including . H.R. 2112 would not provide the much-needed increase for programs. In addition, the bill would cause tens of thousands of tenant based vouchers, project based units, and public housing units to be lost.

As you know, the stakes are high, so we need your help! We must ensure that Congress understands how important affordable housing and homelessness resources are for our communities – both for implementing the Act and for addressing the increasing number of people likely to become homeless.

For more information on the overall impact click here for our most recent post on the budget.

To view a chart of the overall budget impact prepared by the click here.

What You Can Do:

  1. Contact the housing staff person for your senators and representatives THIS WEEK.
  2. (202-224-3224) and (202-225-5034) are on the Appropriations Committee and have greater influence on this than other members in NJ.
  3. Explain how important it is that Congress provides as much overall funding as possible for HUD programs and INCREASES funding for McKinney-Vento . Click here for talking points.
  4. Ask your Member of Congress to contact the leaders of the Appropriations Committee RIGHT AWAY to express his/her support for providing as much overall funding for HUD as possible and to specifically increase funding for HUD’s McKinney-Vento programs.
  5. Prevent amendments that would harm housing programs
  6. Let us know who you contacted by clicking here to send us an email.
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Kate M. Kelly

Article by Kate Kelly

Kate Kelly joined Monarch Housing Associates in March of 2011. Prior to that, she worked for seven years at the Partnership for Strong Communities in Hartford, Connecticut as the Reaching Home Campaign Manager. Managing the statewide effort to end long-term homelessness, Kate effectively implemented statewide advocacy campaigns to fund over 700 new supportive housing units for individuals and families. She has experience directing fundraising events and presenting federal and state conferences. At the Partnership, she educated state and federal legislators and staff about supportive housing homelessness issues and advocated for new funding sources. She has also developed public forums that led to formal policy recommendations and educated local constituencies such as policymakers, legislators and funders. Ms. Kelly received her B.A. in government from the University of Notre Dame and an M.S.W from the University of Connecticut School of Social Work. Click here to send Ms. Kelly an email.

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