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SAY NO TO S.771 !!!

HUD Secretary Alphonso Jackson has submitted a new Housing Bill

that is meant to destroy the low-income Section 8 Housing Choice

Voucher Program for the poor.

If passed into legislation, millions of low-income renters

will be put at risk of homelessness and forced out of the

Section 8 housing assistance program!

Call the Toll Free Congressional Switchboard Number to say NO

to S. 771 Call toll free!!! 1/888/818-6641

Ask for Senator Richard Shelby!

Ask for Senator Paul Sarbane!

Call toll free!!! 1/888/818-6641 Call Now!!! Call Often!!! Tell your friends!!!

Ask for the Sen. Office's of Richard Shelby and Paul Sarbanes,

to urge them to vote in opposition to S. 771 !!!

The Honorable Richard Shelby

Chair

U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban

Affairs

Washington, DC 20510

The Honorable Paul Sarbanes

Ranking Member

U.S. Senate Committee on Banking Housing and Urban

Affairs

Washington, DC  20510

Contact your local Representatives!!!

Tell your local Representatives and the above Senators to

say NO TO S.771 !!!

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Federal law presently requires that 75% of the nation's

Section 8 vouchers go to those earning less than 30% of

the area median income. Meaning, the poorest of the poor.

The new HUD Bill "S.771," submitted by Secretary Jackson,

requires that 90% of the Section 8 vouchers shall go to

those earning up to 60% of area median income.

The Section 8 program serves nearly 2 million low-income families,

and placing 75% of those families at risk is exactly what HUD is

proposing to do!

HUD proposes to take the housing vouchers from the poorest

of the poor, and give the vouchers to wealthier tenants that

do not need assistance to avoid homelessness!

As they destroy the program with budget cuts, they want it to look like

the same number of tenants are being served by dumping the poor, and

trading them in for wealthier tenants that need less funding!

Eventually, the program will be totally defunded!

See the list of organizations that wrote in opposition to

S. 771, “The State and Local Housing Flexibility Act

of 2005.”

"On behalf of the 9.7 million extremely low

income households with severe housing cost burdens 

who need housing assistance and the five million

families able to afford safe and decent housing today

through HUD’s major housing subsidy programs, we write

in opposition to this legislation."

Click below to read the list of the National Organizations that

Wrote in Opposition to Housing Reform Bill S.771

http://www.nlihc.org/news/042105.html

Call Now To Say No To S.771 !!!

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Click below for the latest information from the National

Low-Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC), about the housing crisis!

http://www.nlihc.org/news/index.htm#reform

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Click below to sign a Petition to Save The Nation's

Housing Assistance Programs!

http://www.PetitionOnline.com/ZZ04229/

SAVE SECTION 8!!!



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