Colorado Coalition for the Homeless

Dear Homeless Advocate,

Please contact each member of the Joint Budget Committee (JBC) today! Tell them to support the Governor's request to maintain funding for the Housing Development Line Item at its current level of $2.25 million.

The JBC's FY 2010-11 budget proposal cuts the Housing Development Line Item from $2.25 million to a meager $100,000.

This is an unacceptable allocation at a time when rates of homelessness in the United States are the highest they have been since 1933, during the Great Depression.  This is the only source of state funding for affordable housing and the need for it now could not be greater.   

Federal housing assistance has declined to the point that it now reaches as few as one in five low-income households in need.  Currently in the United States, there is not a single county anywhere in the country where a person working full-time at minimum wage can afford the Fair Market Rent for a one-bedroom apartment.  

Please contact each member of the JBC now by phone or email (see below).  

Thank you for your attention and involvement.  With your help, we can make a difference.  

Meg Costello

Public Policy Analyst

Colorado Coalition for the Homeless

Joint Budget Committee Contact Information

Senator Moe Keller: 303-866-2585, moe.keller.senate@state.co.us