- Target:
- People concerned about housing
- Region:
- United States of America
After years of underfunding and lack of ample support from government agencies, federal, state, and city, public, section 8 and other forms of government assisted housing is in jeopardy.
Over the years, the current trend has been not to support public and other forms of government supportive housing which is affordable to low income/moderate income people. For the past two-three years, several government proposals have sought conversion from the current system to a voucher system to be paid for through mixed funding including private funding.
Each and every proposal moves towards privatization because it will allow public housing agencies to sell units, or will limit currently available tenant rights, and reduce the affordability of housing.
To: Subcommittee on Insurance, Housing and Community Opportunity House Committee on Financial Services U.S. House of Representatives:
Currently Public Housing, Section 8, voucher programs, senior housing and all other forms of government supportive/subsidized housing that is available for low income/moderate income individuals is in jeopardy.
All recent of the recent government proposals ranging from TRA-PETRA-RAD-SESA are suggesting changes or the overriding of such laws as the Brooke Amendment which will undermine the spirit of which public housing and other such programs were instituted for, to supply decent affordable housing for those in need! In the current economic environment, once again it is the poor; those with the least who are being asked to sacrifice the most in order to balance the budget.
Changes in the standards of the Brooke Amendment which dictates that resident pay 30% of their gross income to the Section 8 Savings Act of 2011 (SESA) proposal language would raise the cap on the minimum monthly rent that public housing agencies can set, regardless of a household’s income, to the greater of $75 or 12% of Fair Market Rent. Changes in rents such as this will put many families out in the street! We the undersigned are signing this petition which is letting all members of Subcommittee on Insurance, Housing and Community Opportunity House Committee on Financial Services U.S. House of Representatives know that we support the maxim that “housing is a right and not a privilege” and that Public Housing, Section 8, voucher programs, senior housing and all other forms of government supportive/subsidized housing that is available for low income/moderate income individuals must be preserved.
Subcommittee on Insurance, Housing and Community Opportunity House Committee on Financial Services U.S. House of Representatives
Washington DC Office
2266 Rayburn Building
Washington, DC 20515
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The Save Public and Other Subsidized Housing petition to People concerned about housing was written by Pearl Barkley and is in the category Human Rights at GoPetition.