Hello Housing Alliance members and supporters!  This email is the first installment of a bi-weekly electronic newsletter to keep you up-to-date about everything the Housing Alliance is doing to get ready to win in 2007 - and how you can get involved!
 
Membership Meeting
Tuesday, April 25
Please join us from 10 AM to 3 PM in Salem to finalize the Housing Alliance's priority uses for the $100 million that we are going to win in 2007!
LOCATION: League of Oregon Cities, 1201 Court St. NE, Suite 200, Salem (two blocks East of the Capitol on the other side of the tracks)
(503) 588-6550
RSVP: Please email afauver@tnpf.org to let us know you are coming and if you want to purchase a lunch ($9).
 
Joint Interim Revenue Committee Hearings!
Be there May 17 and June 1!
These hearings are a rare opportunity for us to speak directly to House and Senate Revenue Committee members about the importance of adequate funding for affordable housing. We need YOU to attend one or both of these hearings. Let's pack the room and make our voices be heard!
Medford, May 17                      Salem, June 1
9 AM to 3 PM                              Time and location TBA
Medford City Hall                          

The Housing Alliance will be arranging transportation from Portland for the June 1 hearing. If you would like to travel down to Salem with housing fellows, please contact Amy Fauver, afauver@tnpf.org

Endorsement Campaign
The Housing Alliance endorsement campaign is in full swing!  Now is the time to start asking your organizational partners to endorse our 2007 Housing Opportunities agenda!  We need to have at least 500 endorsements by the time the 2007 Legislative session opens in January 2007. 

To download the endorsement forms, click on these links:

$100 million homes for hardworking families and our neighbors on fixed incomes

Lift the pre-emption that prohibits local communities from using inclusionary zoning

Want more information on the Housing Alliance?  Go to http://www.oregonhousingalliance.org.

For information on the 2005 Legislative Session, click here.

For a full archive of Housing Alliance Weekly Updates, go to http://www.oregonhousingalliance.org/updates_achive.html


Please email or call us with questions or ideas for how we can best keep you informed. Contact Amy Fauver (afauver@tnpf.org) or Michael Anderson (mike@cdnportland.org)