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CONTACT: National Low-Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) For More Information Contact: Danna Fischer 202-662-1530 x. 243 danna@nlihc.org Press Inquiries Contact: Taylor Materio 202-662-1530 x 227 taylor@nlihc.org |
NLIHC Presents Briefing on Renters in Crisis: Issues and Solutions
WASHINGTON - February 17 -
WHAT: Briefing on Renters in Crisis: Issues and Solutions
WHEN: Friday, February 20, 2009 10:30 am - 12:00 pm (EST)
WHERE: 538 Dirksen Senate Office Building
WHO: Sheila Crowley, President and CEO, National Low Income Housing Coalition
Danilo Pelletiere, Research Director, National Low Income Housing Coalition
Keith Wardrip, Senior Research Analyst, National Low Income Housing Coalition
Background:
As data on the foreclosure crisis becomes available, it is estimated that renters make up roughly 40% of the families facing eviction. These renters are most often lower income families, in lower income neighborhoods. With as little as one week between foreclosure and eviction in some states, these families have limited time and limited resources to find new housing, and increasing homelessness is a real possibility.
Please join us for a discussion of the challenges faced by renters in today's market and solutions to protect renters in foreclosed properties and expand the supply of affordable rental housing. Housing staffers from the House and Senate are welcome, as are others interested in this timely and important policy issue.
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Show All"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs. " Thomas Jefferson, (Attributed) 3rd president of US (1743 - 1826)
We see that Jefferson was right about banks. We see it coming true today (because of bad oversight and regulation). The "too big to fail" international banker's Ponzi schemes result in homeless and jobless. The government "talked down the economy" and paid off the banking CEOs instead of taking them to court under RICO for fraud.
The children are homeless and their father's conquered for world order elite rule. The "bailout rush" by both Presidents Bush and Obama was a big shift from the middle class to the top elite. It was robbery and treason. Economic failure is more harmful to security than any invasion since our enemies now own us.