The National Housing Trust Fund (NHTF) is likely to be debated on the floor of U.S. House of Representatives possibly next week!

As early as Wednesday, September 18, we expect HR 3995, the Omnibus Housing bill, to come to the floor of the House. 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, mostly rental units and mostly affordable to families at or below 30% of area median income.

There are now 193 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:

1. Ask to speak to your Representative's housing staff person
   
2. Explain the housing problems in your community and the need for new federal resources
   
3. Explain the National Housing Trust Fund proposal will provide new federal resources
   
4. 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.
   
5. Urge your Representative to support the Sanders amendment to HR 3995 establishing a National Housing Trust Fund.

1. Ask to speak to the housing staff person and thank him or her for your Representative's support of the National Housing Trust Fund.
   
2. 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.

Cosponsors of HR 2349, The National Affordable Housing Trust Fund Act of 2001

Cosponsors of HR 2349, The National Affordable Housing Trust Fund Act of 2001

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. 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) VermontVermont 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)

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