Texas Housing Trust Fund Lobby Day

Mark your calendars for Tuesday, March 17!

Come join a broad coalition of organizations and individuals who are engaged in a campaign at the Texas Legislature to dramatically increase funding for affordable housing for low-income families.
The Texas Housing Trust Fund Campaign is calling on the legislature to invest in the Housing Trust Fund, with a goal of $40 million per year.
The Housing Trust Fund makes up the state's only funding for affordable homes, and currently receives just $5 million per year.
The Trust Fund can be used for a myriad of crucial programs, including single-family and multi-family home construction, shelter services, supportive housing, and housing for populations with unique needs such as victims of domestic violence, veterans and people with disabilities.
On March 17, the Housing Trust Fund Campaign is coming together to lobby members of the Texas Legislature to support long-term, sustainable funding for the Housing Trust Fund.

Housing Texas is coordinating with the Texas Association of Community Development Corporations (TACDC) on this one-day effort to raise our voices in support of affordable housing for low-income Texas families.

WHEN: TUESDAY, MARCH 17, 2009

TIME: 1:30 PM

INITIAL MEETING LOCATION: NORTH STEPS OF THE TEXAS CAPITOL (facing 15th St.)

OPTIONAL: Attend a plenary session with Kristin Carlisle, Coordinator of Housing Texas and Matt Hull, Executive Director of Habitat for Humanity Texas during TACDC's Texas Community Development Conference, to learn about strategies for lobbying on the Housing Trust Fund. Omni Southpark Hotel, Austin, 11 am. Noon lunch available at the conference ($25/ person). You must RSVP to attend the plenary session and/or lunch.

For details on the Texas Housing Trust Fund Lobby Day and to RSVP, contact Kristin Carlisle, Coordinator of Housing Texas at kristin@texashousing.org or (512) 477-8910 x 4

If you can't attend Lobby Day, YOU CAN STILL SUPPORT AFFORDABLE HOUSING FOR LOW-INCOME TEXAS FAMILIES BY ENDORSING THE CAMPAIGN. The campaign statement is available here. To endorse, simply email kristin@texashousing.org

Housing Texas (www.housingtexas.org) is a coalition of housing developers, advocates, consumers, financial institutions and academics working together to find solutions to Texas' affordable housing crisis. Current endorsers of the Texas Housing Trust Fund Campaign include Housing Texas, JP Morgan Chase, Habitat for Humanity Texas, TACDC, the Texas Affiliation of Affordable Housing Providers, the MS Society (Lone Star Chapter), United Cerebral Palsy of Texas, the Texas Homeless Network, the Association of Rural Communities in Texas, the Texas Association of Local Housing Finance Agencies, Family Eldercare, the National Association of Latino Community Asset Builders (NALCAB) Border Community Development Collaborative, Catholic Charities of Central Texas, CDC Association of Greater Houston, the National Center on Domestic and Sexual Violence, Mental Health America of Texas and Central Dallas Ministries..

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