Advocacy Update: McKinney Thanks and Congressional Briefing
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National Alliance to End Homelessness
Advocacy Update | April 28, 2010
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Thank Your Senators
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Thank you to everyone for working hard during this busy time of year to get your Senators to sign onto a letter asking the Transportation, Housing, and Urban Development Appropriations Subcommittee to provide $2.4 billion for the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Grants program in the FY 2011 Appropriations Bill. You got 28 Senators to sign this letter - 5 more than last year! Given the tough budget environment this year, this is an incredible accomplishment!
Please call or email the staff person with whom you are working in your Senators' offices to THANK them for signing onto the Senate McKinney Sign-On Letter. Click here for a copy of the letter and the final list of which Senators signed on.
You Can Say: Please thank your boss for his/her commitment to providing $2.4 billion for HUD's Homeless Assistance Grants program in the FY 2011 Appropriations Bill. This funding level will allow us to fully implement the HEARTH Act, which your boss helped reauthorize last year. I would like to invite your boss to visit a homelessness assistance program next time he/she is in the District, to see first-hand how these programs work locally.
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Briefing to Launch New Congressional Caucus on Homelessness
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Representative Alcee Hastings (D-FL), in conjunction with Representatives Judy Biggert (R-IL), Eddie Bernice Johnston (D-TX), and Geoff Davis (R-KY), is launching a new Congressional Caucus on Homelessness. The Caucus will work to educate Members of Congress and their staff on issues affecting people experiencing homelessness.
A congressional briefing next Tuesday, May 4 will kick off the Caucus. Briefing panelists will include Barbara Poppe of the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness, Nan Roman of the Alliance, Barbara Duffield of the National Association for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth, Dariush Kayhan of the City of San Francisco Mayor's Office, and Sabrina Howard, a permanent supportive housing resident.
Members of Congress and their staff have been invited to attend the briefing, and the Alliance is asking advocates to encourage their Congressional delegation to attend.
Any Congressional staff seeking more information about the Caucus or wishing to attend the briefing should contact Mindy Reinstein in Representative Hastings' office for further details.
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The Alliance works collaboratively with its local, state, and national partners to advance policies and programs that prevent and end homelessness.
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Sarah Kahn
Director of Field Mobilization
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