This is National Low Income Housing Coalition’s Week of Action. Federal housing and homeless budget cuts proposed by the President are devastating, the House made some changes but that are better, but its still devastating. We can’t end up with a compromise between the two and our elected officials are dealing with so much right now, we need to make sure housing is on their radar screen too . . . I’ll let Joe Lindstrom from the National Low Income Housing Coalition, Dane County Supervisor Heidi Wegleitner, Alderperson Maurice Cheeks and Dane County Housing Authority’s Rob Dicke explain how bad it is now, and how much worse it could get . . .
Here’s the general overview on the budget
Here’s what it means locally
Here’s what it means for the Legal Services Corporation and a really bad story about how the book Evicted isn’t just about Milwaukee
And here’s perhaps the most devastating news, from our Dane County Housing Authority
