Call on Congress to prioritize housing investments in an infrastructure and recovery package.

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Call on your members of Congress to act now for housing

Federal legislators are discussing investments in our nation’s infrastructure and economy. Raise your voice and urge lawmakers to prioritize housing resources focused on neighborhood revitalization policies and increased funding for vital housing and community development programs, which will spur low-income housing preservation and provide long-term stability for thousands of families.

By making our voices heard, we’re leveraging this opportunity through the Cost of Home campaign to ensure Habitat’s federal policy priorities are reflected in legislation affecting affordable housing production and preservation over the next decade. Please add your support and encourage your colleagues and peers to do the same.

We encourage you to personalize your message. Share with your members of Congress why they must invest in our nation’s housing supply.

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Subject: Please prioritize housing resources to ensure our nation's economic stability

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As your constituent and a Habitat for Humanity supporter, I urge you to prioritize housing legislation that increases and preserves the stock of affordable homes, sparks the revitalization of left-behind neighborhoods and helps low-income families rebuild and prosper, as you invest in our economy. The pandemic has exacerbated a pre-existing housing affordability crisis. Further, many long-disinvested communities are being weighed down by deteriorating housing stock and abandoned properties. These include formerly redlined communities of color, towns devastated by loss of industry, pockets of distress in otherwise prosperous areas, and rural communities with high rates of poverty and older housing stock. To address the shortage of affordable homes in our community, I strongly encourage you to: 1. Co-sponsor the Neighborhood Home Investment Act (H.R. 2143 and S.98): This bipartisan legislation will revive distressed neighborhoods by using federal income tax credits to mobilize private investment to build and substantially rehabilitate homes for low- and moderate-income homeowners. 2. Co-sponsor the Restoring Communities Left Behind Act (H.R. 816 and S.2300): This bipartisan legislation would make $50 billion over 10 years available to local communities through a competitive grant program to help local public-private partnerships rehabilitate homes for affordable homeownership, conduct home repairs to stabilize current owners, preserve affordable rental housing, provide weatherization and improve surrounding neighborhoods. The bill also includes $250 million for the Self-Help Homeownership Opportunity Program. 3. Support investments in vital housing and community development federal programs that enable Habitat and other organizations to support communities by creating affordable housing opportunities. This includes supporting additional funding for the HOME Investment Partnership Program, the USDA 502 loan program, and Section 4 program beyond the resources they receive in the FY2022 budget. Federal investments can help ignite a virtuous cycle of rising home values that removes disincentives to broader neighborhood reinvestment while creating thousands of jobs, remediating urgent health hazards and narrowing our nation’s racial wealth gap. These are key priorities for Habitat’s Cost of Home campaign, which is working to help 10 million people over five years access greater housing affordability. I urge you to answer the call of over 560 Habitat organizations (http://ow.ly/g81l50Esxwx) and prioritize these housing investments to ensure no one and no community is left behind as we rebuild from the pandemic.

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