Categories: Funding, New York State
11.23.2016
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On November 21, the Network, as part of the Campaign for NY/NY Housing, launched a new advocacy initiative to send 20,000 messages to our legislators in Albany – one for every supportive housing unit promised – to urge the Governor and Legislature to SIGN THE MOU TODAY and fulfill the supportive housing promise made last year!
If you haven’t done so already, click here to tell our legislative leaders to SIGN THE MOU!
Last year we fought for a historic commitment from the State to fund 20,000 units of supportive housing over the next 15 years. As you know, last year’s budget included $2 billion to fund, among other things, the first installment on that commitment -- 6,000 units of supportive housing over the next 5 years. However, the State has only released funding for the first 1,200 units. In order to release the remaining funding, a memorandum of understanding (MOU) is required to be signed by the Governor, Senate and Assembly.
The good news is our supportive housing campaign, THANKS IN LARGE PART TO YOU, was the only program that had funding released last year!!! So, thank you!!! With that in mind, we ask for you to again click the link to show the Governor and Legislature that we remain vigilant as ever in our quest to release the remaining funds for the 4,800 initial units of supportive housing both the Governor and Legislature agreed to fund. Please participate and encourage others to do so as well.
Our battle is not over. Every email counts.
The initiative was covered by:
Capital Tonight, "Housing Experts Discuss Housing MOU."
The New York Daily News, “Homeless advocates call on Gov. Cuomo to get 6,000 new supportive housing units up and running.”