by | Mar 24, 2014 | Advocacy Alerts, Advocacy Updates
Congress has begun the process for creating the fiscal year 2015 federal budget. Housing Action Illinois is making a special effort to get Senator Mark Kirk to support a funding level of at least $2.4 billion in FY 2015 for federal McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance...
by | Feb 20, 2014 | Advocacy Alerts, Advocacy Updates
Help Ensure THUD Appropriations Subcommittees Have Highest Possible Funding for Housing Programs in FY15! Last year, over 2,400 organizations signed a letter to support increasing the federal allocation for housing, transportation and community development funding. ...
by | Jan 8, 2014 | Advocacy Alerts, Advocacy Events, Advocacy Updates
Housing Action Illinois has endorsed the A Better Illinois Campaign in support of Fair Tax legislation—with lower tax rates for lower incomes and higher rates for higher incomes. Without a Fair Tax, we won’t we able to make much progress towards making sure...
by | Jan 3, 2014 | Advocacy Alerts, Advocacy Updates
Please support our efforts to get Illinois Governor Pat Quinn to include $6 million for the Homeless Prevention Program in his fiscal year (FY) 2015 budget proposal. Governor Quinn will release his proposal on February 19. The Homeless Prevention Program provides...
by | Dec 9, 2013 | Advocacy Alerts, Advocacy Updates
Illinois currently has 82 organizations that have endorsed the United for Homes Campaign and Housing Action Illinois is working to increase that number to 110 before the end of the year. The United for Homes Campaign is a national effort to to fund the National...
by | Dec 3, 2013 | Advocacy Alerts, Advocacy Updates
Sequestration is bad public policy that is placing even further strain on tens of thousands of low income families across the country. Nondefense discretionary (NDD) programs—including most U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and U.S. Department of...
