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June 22, 2017From Catholic Community Services of Western Washington:
Take Action
In the 2017-2019 budget, please urge your legislators to:
- Protect funding of the Housing and Essential Needs Grant (HEN), which provides housing assistance to low-income adults who are experiencing homelessness or are at imminent risk of homelessness and can't work due to a temporary physical or mental health disability.
- Eliminate the sunset on document recording fees and give counties the ability to raise additional funds to combat homelessness (SHB 1570). This fee provides 60% of State funds to fight homelessness and without it, 22,000 people could become homeless.
- Assure a home care agency administrative rate increase. If there is no rate increase this year, home care agencies will have gone 10 years without a rate increase and the industry will be destabilized right when the state needs these agencies the most.
- Prioritize the Housing Trust Fund in the Capital Budget and fund it at least at $106 million. Every dollar funded is leveraged with six dollars from other public and private sources to build thousands of new, affordable homes.
- Restore funding for the Aged Blind and Disabled Grant (ABD) to its pre-recession level of $339 per month and ensure there is no time limit. ABD provides crisis cash assistance to elderly adults and adults with permanent disabilities who are unable to work and are living on very low incomes while they are applying for federal benefits.
- Restore funding for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Grant (TANF) to its pre-recession level of $562 for a family of three. TANF provides a temporary lifeline of cash assistance to help children and families in crisis.
- Include funding for public notices in languages other than English which requires that in emergency situations like wildfires that state agencies provide health and safety notices in the language that people can understand when a significant segment of the community speaks a language other than English. Both chambers of the legislature passed SSB 5046, and the governor signed it; however, if the act is not funded in the budget, this law is void.
Take Action
- Protect funding of the Housing and Essential Needs Grant (HEN), which provides housing assistance to low-income adults who are experiencing homelessness or are at imminent risk of homelessness and can't work due to a temporary physical or mental health disability.