The Alliance has joined Make Room, a campaign to end the rental housing crisis in America, to send a million messages to Congress demanding attention and action on affordable housing issues by Election Day. Join us in this campaign!
Here’s what you can do:
2. Type in your zip code to find your Members of Congress
3. Tweet, email, or call your Members by following the links on the site and tailoring the template messages
- Please include a specific message about the importance of funding McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Grants at least at $2.487 billion in the final FY 2017 HUD spending bill! See the templates below. You can also reference these talking points.
- We also encourage you to add in local stories and data about the effective work of McKinney-funded programs in your community.
Email Template:
“The housing affordability crisis results in approximately 564,708 Americans experiencing homelessness on any given night. As a first step, please reach out to Appropriations leadership and ask them to include at least the House Committee’s $2.487 billion for Homeless Assistance in the final FY 2017 HUD spending bill. This level would allow communities to house 40,000 more homeless people than this year.”
Tweet Template:
.@(Insert Congress Member’s Twitter Handle) To #MakeRoom for housing, please include at least $2.487B for Homeless Assistance in the final FY 2017 HUD spending bill.
Phone Call Template:
“Please reach out to Appropriations leadership and ask them to include at least the House Committee’s $2.487 billion for Homeless Assistance in the final FY 2017 HUD spending bill.”
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