Important HUD Funding Votes in HUD Subcommittee and Full
Appropriations Committee 6/11 and 6/18
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The next several days are critical for HUD funding in FY
2008. The
appropriations subcommittee on Transportation and Housing and Urban
Development will be considering the HUD funding bill on 6/11 for FY
2008. The full House Appropriations Committee will be considering HUD
funding on 6/18.

You are receiving this message because you live in a state where a
Representative is on one of these Subcommittees/Committees.

If your Representative or one with whom you have a relationship will
be
voting on this important bill, please take a moment to send the
letter
below or call to urge them to support adequate funding for all of
HUD's
programs.

You can use the list below to determine if your Representative is on
one of these Committees. If you choose to call, please use this toll
free number, 877-210-5351, for the congressional switchboard and ask
to
be connected to the housing staffer for your Representative.

Below is a sample letter which you can personalize and send to your
Representative. Additionally, you can click on the blue "Take
Action" above to send an editable e-mail version of the letter to
your Representative.

Dear:

As Congress considers HUD funding for fiscal year 2008, I urge you to
adequately fund all HUD programs. A May 2007 report from HUD showed a
16% increase between 2003 and 2005 in families paying more than half
of
their incomes on rent or living in severely substandard conditions.
HUDâ?Ts programs to meet these needs work well and these families
need housing assistance.

HUDâ?Ts three largest programs serve a total of more than 4.5
million families. For these programs, we urge the following funding
levels for FY08:

Vouchers:
â?¢ Adequate funding for the housing choice voucher program,
including $15 billion for voucher renewals and provisions to base
administrative funding on the number of families each agency serves.
â?¢ Adequate funding for at least 100,000 new, incremental vouchers
in FY08.
â?¢ Implement HUDâ?Ts proposal to award $5 million in bonus
administrative fees to public housing agencies that consolidate the
administration of their voucher programs.

Public Housing:
â?¢ $3.5 billion public housing capital funds.
â?¢ $5 billion public housing operating funds.
â?¢ No funding for HOPE VI unless and until the program is
reauthorized to provide for one-for-one replacement of public housing
units and residents have a right to return.
â?¢ No expansion of the Moving to Work demonstration program or
broadening of exemptions from Public Housing Agency Plans.

Project-Based Section 8
â?¢ $6.1 billion to $6.7 billion, depending on latest HUD data
available, for the renewal of project-based rental assistance
contracts.

Thank you for considering these suggestions. I would like to hear
from
you regarding funding for these and other HUD programs.

Sincerely,

Congressional District and Representatives on the Subcommittee on
Transportation and HUD:
AL04 Robert Aderholt
AL05 Robert Cramer
AR01 Marion Berry
AZ04 Ed Pastor
CA34 Lucille Roybal-Allard
MA01 John Olver
MI09 Joe Knollenberg
NY25 James Walsh
OH09 Marcy Kaptur
VA05 Virgil Goode, Jr.
VA10 Frank Wolf

Congressional District and Representative on the Appropriations
Committee:
AL04 Robert Aderholt
AL05 Robert Cramer
AR01 Marion Berry
AZ04 Ed Pastor
CA04 John Doolittle
CA09 Barbara Lee
CA15 Michael Honda
CA17 Sam Farr
CA29 Adam Schiff
CA34 Lucille Roybal-Allard
CA41 Jerry Lewis
CT03 Rosa DeLauro
FL02 Allen Boyd
FL04 Ander Crenshaw
FL10 C.W. Bill Young
FL15 Dave Weldon
FL20 Debbie Wasserman Schultz
GA01 Jack Kingston
GA02 Sanford Bishop, Jr.
IA04 Tom Latham
ID02 Mike Simpson
IL02 Jesse Jackson, Jr.
IL10 Mark Kirk
IL18 Ray LaHood
IN01 Peter Visclosky
KS04 Todd Tiahrt
KY05 Harold Rogers
KY06 Ben Chandler
LA05 Rodney Alexander
MA01 John Olver
MD02 C.A. Ruppersberger
MI09 Joe Knollenberg
MI13 Carolyn Kilpatrick
MN04 Betty McCollum
MO08 Jo Ann Emerson
MS01 Roger Wicker
MTAL Dennis Rehberg
NC04 David Price
NJ09 Steven Rothman
NJ11 Rodney Frelinghuysen
NM03 Thomas Udall
NY02 Steve Israel
NY16 Jose Serrano
NY18 Nita Lowey
NY22 Maurice Hinchey
NY25 James Walsh
OH07 David Hobson
OH09 Marcy Kaptur
OH16 Ralph Regula
OH17 Timothy Ryan
PA02 Chaka Fattah
PA05 John Peterson
PA12 John Murtha
RI01 Patrick Kennedy
TN03 Zach Wamp
TX07 John Culberson
TX12 Kay Granger
TX17 Chet Edwards
TX23 Ciro Rodriguez
TX31 John Carter
VA05 Virgil Goode, Jr.
VA08 James Moran
VA10 Frank Wolf
WA06 Norman Dicks
WI07 David Obey
WV01 Alan Mollohan