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Tell Congress to Advance Historic Housing Investments!

Negotiations have restarted over a scaled-down reconciliation package, presenting a once-in-a-generation opportunity to advance the bold, long-term solutions needed to address the nation's affordable housing crisis.

Urge your members of Congress to ensure any reconciliation package includes robust affordable housing investments targeted to people with the greatest needs, including funding for NLIHC's top priorities.

Instructions:

For additional talking points and resources, see NLIHC's Toolkit and Inflation factshee t.
To email your members of Congress: Fill out the form below to identify your members of Congress and personalize the email template below.
To call your members of Congress: Dial 202-224-3121, and the operator will connect you with the senators' offices from your state. You can use the email template below as a call script.
Questions or feedback? Contact the NLIHC Field Team at outreach@nlihc.org if you have questions or to let us know what you hear back!

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As your constituent, I ask that you ensure that targeted investments in rental assistance, public housing, and the national Housing Trust Fund are included in any reconciliation package.

Bold investments in affordable, accessible homes are desperately needed across the country. The disparity between rising housing costs and stagnant incomes for people with the lowest incomes continues to grow, and a severe shortage of rental homes affordable to the lowest-income renters remains.

Only one in four households who qualify for housing assistance receives it, and nationally we lose 10,000 to 15,000 units of public housing every year to obsolescence or decay, with additional units falling into disrepair. The private sector cannot – on its own – build and maintain homes affordable to the lowest-income renters without federal support, but Congress has chronically underfunded key affordable housing programs for decades.

Because housing is the single largest component of the Consumer Price Index, a key measure of inflation, Congress must include significant investments to make housing affordable for people with the lowest incomes and to help address inflation.

As negotiations continue, I urge you to prioritize critical investments in affordable homes, including $25 billion in rental assistance, $65 billion for public housing, and $15 billion for the national Housing Trust Fund. Congress cannot miss this once-in-a-generation opportunity to address the nation’s housing crisis.

Thank you.

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