National Call-In Day to Urge Congress to Support HoUSed Campaign Priorities
Join advocates across the country for a National Call-In Day on Wednesday, April 14 to urge Congress to include in the American Jobs Plan the HoUSed campaign’s top infrastructure priorities: a major expansion of rental assistance for every eligible household; $70 billion to repair public housing; and an investment of $40 billion in the national Housing Trust Fund to build and preserve homes affordable to the lowest-income and most marginalized households.
NLIHC President and CEO Diane Yentel is set to testify on April 14 before House Financial Services Committee on the urgent need for these housing investments, and your participation in the National Call-In Day will help amplify this message!
Call your senators and representatives on April 14 and demand that the American Jobs Plan includes robust resources to make rental housing affordable to the lowest-income and most marginalized households.
Background
With congressional champions and national, state, and local partners, NLIHC launched the HoUSed campaign to advance anti-racist policies and achieve the large-scale, sustained investments and reforms necessary to ensure renters with the lowest incomes have an affordable and accessible place to call home.
Our first and best opportunity to advance some of these bold housing solutions is in the American Jobs Plan, $2.2 trillion infrastructure and recovery proposal from President Biden with a proposed $213 billion in housing investments.
It is critical that Congress include the HoUSed campaign’s top infrastructure priorities – a major expansion of rental assistance for every eligible household, $70 billion to repair public housing, and $40 billion for the national Housing Trust Fund – to address the urgent housing needs facing extremely low-income households, who are disproportionately Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC).
Advocates should contact their representatives and senators and urge them to support the HoUSed campaign’s top priorities in the American Jobs Plan.
Take Action
Call your senators and representatives on Wednesday, April 14 to demand that the American Jobs Plan includes the HoUSed campaign’s top infrastructure priorities! You can find your members of Congress here.
Please sign onto the national letter in support of the national HoUSed campaign and the bold solutions needed to end homelessness and housing poverty once and for all.
Sample Tweets
The #AmericanJobsPlan must include #HoUSed campaign’s top priorities to help the lowest-income people afford a place to call home. Call Congress TODAY and demand that the American Jobs Plan prioritizes #Housing4UsAll starting with those with the greatest needs! https://nlihc.org/sites/default/files/American_Recovery_Plan.pdf
We need #Housing4UsAll! Call your senators and representatives TODAY to demand that the American Jobs Plan includes robust housing investments for the lowest-income and most marginalized people. https://nlihc.org/sites/default/files/American_Recovery_Plan.pdf
More than ever, we need Congress to advance bold policies to ensure affordable and stable housing is universally available. Sign your organization onto the national letter urging Congress to take action to ensure #Housing4UsAll: https://sforce.co/3utqkoO
Thank you for your advocacy on the #HoUSed campaign!