The sub-prime mortgage crisis is forcing families to make heart-wrenching choices: pay the mortgage or buy needed medication? Fall behind on the mortgage or put food on the table?
We can do something for struggling families. The U.S. House is considering landmark housing stimulus legislation that includes two key components:
A national housing trust fund that will make more resources available for affordable housing construction and renovation.
Neighborhood stabilization funding that will aid in the rehabilitation and create affordable housing out of vacant properties in communities across the country - protecting the investments of homeowners and affordable housing developers and ensuring that local tax bases remain strong.
The House of Representatives is making a decision on this legislation soon! Urge your Representative to support a housing bill that includes both a national housing trust fund and neighborhood stabilization funding.
We need to make sure this important bill passes Congress and gets to the President's desk. Now is the time to send a message to your Representative expressing your support for this vital housing bill, which will address the devastating effects of the foreclosure crisis that threaten the investments of homeowners in neighborhoods nationwide.
Click here to send a strong message to your Representative today. This is a chance to have a real impact on the national housing crisis.
This is a critical time. Legislation (HR 3221) just passed the Senate and is currently under consideration in the House, and it includes both the national housing trust fund and neighborhood stabilization funding. But some are seeking to strip neighborhood stabilization funding from the bill.
It's up to us to make sure this bill gets to the President's desk intact and signed in short order.
Thousands of Habitat advocates have already written their members of Congress. Will you join them?
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