ADVOCACY AND LEGISLATION
ADVOCACY AND LEGISLATION UPDATES
The California Affordable Housing Institute tracks federal and state legislation relevant to housing and services for persons with developmental disabilities. Legislative updates on specific bills are posted on the CAAHI website for informational and advocacy purposes.
CAAHI is a 501 (c ) (3) organization and is not directly involved in any lobbying activity but we will strive to educate our community about proposed legislation and the potential impact on individuals with developmental disabilities and their families and care takers.
NIMBY issue in Pasadena
A MEDFORD RESIDENT'S THOUGHTS ABOUT "NEW BEGINNINGS" IN GLENDA'S HOUSEWritten by a neighbor of the home whose wife and children have befriended the residents because they were moved by the injustice and irrationality of what was happening. The 9 year old daughter read a personal statement that she wrote at a recent community meeting that while not as hostile as a prior one would have been daunting to children twice her age. It is gratifying that such individuals and families exist out there.
Please read about this issue here.
CDCAN
CALIFORNIA DISABILITY COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORKCONNECTING PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES & SENIORS TO RIGHTS & UNIFIED ACTION
VOTE NOVEMBER 7th
YES ON PROP 1C
The Housing and Emergency Shelter Trust Fund Act of 2006
($2.85 billion general obligation bond)
THE NEED REMAINS URGENThousing is out of reach for Bay Area workers and families.
Overview of Yes on 1C: (in PDF format) Here.
Slideshow Briefing for Nine County Network: Here.
Emergency Funding For Section 8 Permanent Supportive Housing Vouchers in Jeopardy
Take Action! Contact Your House Member & Senators TODAY!!
Background
After the Memorial Day recess, the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2007 (H.R. 4939), a bill that funds the war in Iraq, Hurricane Katrina relief and various earmarked projects, is expected to be debated by a House and Senate conference committee. This bill is important for people with disabilities affected by Hurricane Katrina and their families because conferees will consider a provision to provide 4,500 Section 8 project-based vouchers targeted specifically for permanent supportive housing. The provision is in the Senates version of the Emergency Supplemental bill, not the Houses.
Status
The House and Senate conference committee is scheduled to vote on the emergency supplemental spending bill when Congress returns from its Memorial Day recess on June 6.
Take Action
The Arc of the United States and United Cerebral Palsy support the Senates version of the bill. E-mail your House Member and Senators TODAY. Click the "Take Action" link above to begin.
Or you can call your House Member's and Senators' office. Start by clicking here.
Statement by Julie Spezia on Governor Arnold Schwarzeneggers Proposed Bond
by Chris Bender
Senate Spezia to Governor: Housing should be infrastructure.
Sacramento, CA
In response to Governor
Schwarzeneggers choice not to fund affordable home construction in his proposed
infrastructure bond, Julie Spezia, executive director of Housing California
the leading advocate in the state Capitol on housing and budget policy for
homeless and very low-income people released this statement:
The Governor missed an opportunity today. California needs more than 651,000 homes for low-income families and individualshairdressers and dry cleaners, homeless people and senior citizens. Every year, we fall another 32,000 behind. The main artery of money to help build these homes money our citizens approved with Prop 46 will run dry in December.
Read the full article from Housing California: Here.