Action Alert: National Housing Trust Fund
September 2002
The National Housing Trust Fund (NHTF) is likely to be debated on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives before Congress adjourns!
We expect HR 3995, the Omnibus Housing bill, to come to the floor of the House before Congress adjourns in October. Representative Bernie Sanders (I-VT) will offer The National Housing Trust Fund as an amendment to that bill. As you recall, the NHTF would provide funds to build, rehabilitate, and preserve 1.5 million units of housing over the next 10 years for households with very low incomes. This Amendment, however, will not specify the source of funds that will be used to assist in the construction, rehabilitation, and preservation of housing units, that are mostly rental units and mostly affordable to families at or below 30% of area median income.
Please call your Representatives (1-866-864-NHTF) and urge them to vote for
the Sanders Amendment to HR 3995!
There are now 194 co-sponsors in the House of Representatives.
(See the list below or check http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:HR02349:@@@P)
If your Representative is NOT a co-sponsor of HR 2349:
- Ask to speak to your Representative's housing staff person
- Explain the housing problems in your community and the need for new federal resources
- Explain the National Housing Trust Fund proposal will provide new federal resources
- Let them know that the National Housing Trust Fund will be offered as an amendment to HR 3995 by Representative Bernie Sanders on the House floor as early as Wednesday, September 18.
- Urge your Representative to support the Sanders amendment to HR 3995 establishing a National Housing Trust Fund.
If your Representative
is a co-sponsor of HR 2349:
- Ask to speak to the housing staff person and thank him or her for your Representative's support of the National Housing Trust Fund.
- Let them know that the National Housing Trust Fund will be offered as an amendment to the housing bill (HR 3995) by Representative Bernie Sanders on the House floor as early as Wednesday, September 18; and, ask again for their continued support.
Thomas Shellabarger
Policy Advisor
202 541 3189
tshellabarger@usccb.org
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Cosponsors of HR 2349, The National Affordable Housing Trust Fund Act of 2001
194 Cosponsors from 40 states plus District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, American Samoa and Virgin Islands
Alabama
Rep. Earl Hilliard (D-7th)
American Samoa
Del. Eni F.H. Faleomavaega (D-AS)
Arizona
Rep. Ed Pastor (D-2nd)
Arkansas
Rep. Vic Snyder (D-2nd)
California
Rep. Joe Baca (D-42nd)
Rep. Xavier Becerra (D-30th)
Rep. Howard Berman (D-26th)
Rep. Lois Capps (D-22nd)
Rep. Susan Davis (D-49th)
Rep. Calvin Dooley (D-20th)
Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-14th)
Rep. Sam Farr (D-17th)*
Rep. Bob Filner (D-50th)*
Rep. Jane Harman (D-36th)
Rep. Michael Honda (D-15th)
Rep. Tom Lantos (D-12th)
Rep. Barbara Lee (D-9th)*
Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-16th)
Rep. Robert Matsui (D-5th)
Rep. Juanita Millender-McDonald (D-37th)
Rep. George Miller (D-6th)
Rep. Grace Napolitano (D-34th)
Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-8th)*
Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-33rd)
Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-46th)
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-27th)*
Rep. Hilda Solis (D-31rst)
Rep. Fortney "Pete" Stark (D-13th)*
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-35th)*
Rep. Diane Watson (D-32nd)
Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-29th)
Rep. Lynn Woolesy (D-6th)
Colorado
Rep. Diana DeGette (D-1rst)
Rep. Mark Udall (D-2nd)
Connecticut
Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-3rd)
Rep. John Larson (D-1st)
Rep. James H. Maloney (D-5th)
Rep. Christopher Shays (R-4th)
Rep. Robert Simmons (R-2nd)
District of Columbia
Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC)
Florida
Rep. Corrine Brown (D-3rd)
Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-23rd)*
Rep. Carrie Meek (D-17th)*
Rep. Karen Thurman (D-5th)
Rep. Robert Wexler (D-19th)
Georgia
Rep. Sanford Bishop, Jr. (D-2nd)
Rep. John Lewis (D-5th)
Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-4th)*
Hawaii
Rep. Neil Abercrombie (D-1rst)
Rep. Patsy Mink (D-2nd)
Illinois
Rep. Rod Blagojevich (D-5th)
Rep. Jerry Costello (D-12th)
Rep. Danny Davis (D-7th)*
Rep. Lane Evans (D-17th)
Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-4th)*
Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-2nd)
Rep. William Lipinski (D-3rd)
Rep. David Phelps (D-19th)
Rep. Bobby Rush (D-1rst)*
Rep. Janice D. Schakowsky (D-9th)*
Indiana
Rep. Julia Carson (D-10th)*
Rep. Baron Hill (D-9th)
Rep. Tim J. Roemer (D-3rd)
Iowa
Rep. Leonard Boswell (D-3rd)
Kansas
Rep. Dennis Moore (D-3rd) |
Louisiana
Rep. William Jefferson (D-2nd)
Maine
Rep. Tom Allen (D-1rst)*
Rep. John E. Baldacci (D-2nd)*
Maryland
Rep. Benjamin Cardin (D-3rd)
Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-7th)*
Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-5th)
Rep. Constance A. Morella (R-8th)
Rep. Albert Wynn (D-4th)
Massachusetts
Rep. Barney Frank (D-4th)*
Rep. Michael Capuano (D-8th)*
Rep. William Delahunt (D-10th)*
Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-9th)
Rep. Edward Markey (D-7th)
Rep. James McGovern (D-3rd)
Rep. Martin Meehan (D-5th)
Rep. Richard Neal (D-2nd)
Rep. John Olver (D-1rst)
Rep. John Tierney (D-6th)
Michigan
Rep. James Barcia (D-5th)
Rep. David E. Bonoir (D-10th)
Rep. John Conyers Jr. (D-14th)
Rep. John Dingell (D-16th)
Rep. Dale Kildee (D-9th)
Rep. Carolyn Kilpatrick (D-15th)
Rep. Sander Levin (D-12th)
Rep. Lynn Rivers (D-13th)*
Rep. Bart Stupak (D-1rst)
Minnesota
Rep. Bill Luther (D-6th)
Rep. Betty McCollum (D-4th)*
Rep. James Oberstar (D-8th)
Rep. Collin Peterson (D-7th)
Mississippi
Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-2nd)
Rep. Ronnie Shows (D-4th)
Missouri
Rep. William L. Clay Jr. (D-1rst)*
Rep. Karen McCarthy (D-5th)*
Nevada
Rep. Shelley Berkley (D-1rst)
New Jersey
Rep. Robert Andrews (D-1rst)
Rep. Rush Holt (D-12th)
Rep. Robert Menendez (D-13th)
Rep. Frank Pallone Jr. (D-6th)
Rep. William J. Pascrell Jr. (D-8th)
Rep. Donald Payne (D-10th)*
Rep. Steve Rothman (D-9th)
New Mexico
Rep. Tom Udall (D-3rd)
New York
Rep. Gary Ackerman (D-5th)
Rep. Joseph Crowley (D-7th)
Rep. Eliot Engel (D-17th)*
Rep. Maurice Hinchey (D-26th)
Rep. Steve J. Israel (D-2nd)*
Rep. Nita Lowey (D-18th)
Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-14th)
Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-4th)
Rep. John McHugh (R-24th)*
Rep. Michael McNulty (D-21rst)
Rep. Gregory W. Meeks (D-6th)
Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-8th)*
Rep. Major J. Owens (D-11th)*
Rep. Jack Quinn (R-30th)
Rep. Charles Rangel (D-15th)
Rep. Jose E. Serrano (D-16th)
Rep. Louise McIntosh Slaughter (D-28th)
Rep. Edolphus Towns (D-10th)
Rep. Nydia Velazquez (D-12th)*
Rep. Anthony D. Weiner (D-9th)
North Carolina
Rep. Eva M. Clayton (D-1rst)*
Rep. David Price (D-4th)
Rep. Mel Watt (D-12th) |
North Dakota
Rep. Earl Pomeroy (D-At Large)
Ohio
Rep. Sherrod Brown (D-13th)
Rep. Tony Hall (D-3rd)
Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-9th)
Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-10th)*
Rep. Tom Sawyer (D-14th)
Rep. Ted Strickland (D-6th)
Rep. Stephanie Tubbs-Jones (D-11th)*
Oklahoma
Rep. Brad Carson (D-2nd)
Oregon
Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-3rd)*
Rep. Pete DeFazio (D-4th)
Rep. Darlene Hooley (D-5th)
Rep. David Wu (D-1rst)
Pennsylvania
Rep. Robert Brady (D-1rst)*
Rep. William J. Coyne (D-14th)*
Rep. Michael Doyle (D-18th)
Rep. Chaka Fattah (D-2nd)
Rep. Jim Greenwood (R-8th)
Rep. Joseph Hoeffel (D-13th)
Rep. Tim Holden (D-6th)
Rep. Paul E. Kanjorski (D-11th)
Rep. Frank Mascara (D-20th)
Rep. Todd Platts (R-19th)
Puerto Rico
Del. Anibal Acevedo-Vila (D-PR)
Rhode Island
Rep. James Langevin (D-2nd)
Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-1rst)*
South Carolina
Rep. James Clyburn (D-6th)
Rep. John Spratt (D-5th)
Tennessee
Rep. Bob Clement (D-5th)
Rep. Harold Ford Jr. (D-9th)
Rep. Bart Gordon (D-6th)
Texas
Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-10th)
Rep. Martin Frost (D-24th)*
Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-18th)*
Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-30th)*
Rep. Charles Gonzalez (D-20th)
Rep. Gene Green (D-29th)
Rep. Ralph Hall (D-4th)
Rep. Ruben Hinojosa (D-15th)
Rep. Nick Lampson (D-9th)
Rep. Solomon P. Ortiz (D-27th)
Rep. Silvestre Reyes (D-16th)
Rep. Ciro Rodriguez (D-28th)
Utah
Rep. Jim Matheson (D-UT)
Virginia
Rep. Rick Boucher (D-9th)
Rep. Thomas M. Davis III (R-11th)
Rep. James Moran (D-8th)
Rep. Bobby Scott (D-3rd)
Virgin Islands
Del. Donna Christensen (D-VI)
Vermont
Rep. Bernie Sanders (I-At Large)*
Washington
Rep. Brian Baird (D-3rd)
Rep. Norman Dicks (D-6th)
Rep. Jay Inslee (D-1rst)
Rep. Richard Larsen (D-2nd)*
Rep. Jim McDermott (D-7th)*
Rep. Adam Smith (D-9th)
West Virginia
Rep. Shelley Moore Capito (R-2nd)
Rep. Nick Rahall (D-3rd)
Wisconsin
Rep. Tammy Baldwin (D-2nd)
Rep. Tom Barrett (D-5th)
Rep. Ron Kind (D-3rd)
Rep. Gerald Kleczka (D-4th) |