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A group of 18 current and former low-income
housing residents, HOC and Health and Human Services counselors will join
members of the National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials
in an advocacy effort.
Trip to Capitol Hill to inform Maryland and
other selected members of the U.S. Senate
and U.S. House
of Representatives of critical impact of current Administration’s proposed
Flexible Voucher Program. Senate Appropriations, Senate Banking, House
Appropriations and House Financial Services Committee members targeted.
Tuesday,
March 16, 2004, 9:30 a.m.
– 2 p.m. (van leaves Montgomery County 8 a.m.)
Van to U.S.
Congress will depart from HOC headquarters, 10400
Detrick Avenue, Kensington at 8 a.m.
Under the proposed Flexible Voucher Program, 2,500
families, elderly, disabled and veterans nationally would lose housing vouchers;
in Montgomery County 608 families would lose housing vouchers. It’s
projected that 800,000 (40 percent of current voucher holders) would lose
housing by 2009. Current voucher holders are only 25 percent of all
income-eligible households, due to current budgeting.
Funding cuts also threaten the continued operation
of the Family Self Sufficiency Program, a 5-year
counseling and training program that has lifted more than 350 families from
poverty over the past ten years in Montgomery County.
REPORTERS INVITED TO ACCOMPANY GROUP ON CAPITOL
HILL;
INTERVIEW OPPORTUNITIES
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