The Housing Alliance Update & Announcements is 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!
 
 
Hello Housing Alliance members and supporters!
May was a busy month for affordable housing advocates and June promises to be even more exciting.
Keep reading for information on:
·       June 1 Legislative Hearings – RSVP requested!
·       Endorsement Campaign
·       New Members
 
REVENUE COMMITTEE HEARINGS

Wednesday May 17 was the first of two joint hearings by the Senate and House Interim Committees on Revenue. Eight legislators heard testimony from Housing Alliance members and allies, as well as the general public. More than eighty members of Housing Alliance organizations were on hand to lend their support as well as their voices.
 
Legislators heard loud and clear that there’s a need for dramatic solutions. Speakers eloquently addressed the need for money for housing development, policy tools like inclusionary zoning, policy and funding strategies to protect manufactured home owners from displacement, and policy to alleviate the disruption of condo conversion and ending use restrictions.
 
GREAT JOB ALL!!!
 
Now, let’s do it again June 1st in Salem! Plan to come spend the day, and bring some folks with you! We will have lunches available (donations accepted) and have reserved Room 50 in the basement for breaks and briefings.
 
The hearing will begin sometime between 10:00 and 10:30, and continue after lunch until about 3:00. Written testimony can be submitted – the committee staff asks for 25 copies of anything submitted in writing. From 9:00 to 10:00, the Committees will be hearing the June Revenue Forecast – let’s hope for good news!
 
RSVP NOW to Amy Fauver at NPF (afauver@tnpf.org). Let us know how many of you there will be and if you want to take the bus/carpool.
 
Portland area buses and carpool staging areas:
 
PORTLAND: Meet at 8:30 on the west side of the Oregon State Office Building (between NE Oregon & NE Irving streets).
 
TIGARD: Meet at 8:30 at the Greenburg Oaks housing development. The address is 11905 SW 91st Avenue, Tigard, off Greenburg Road. 
 
ENDORSEMENTS
 
Help us reach our goal of 100 endorsements by June 1. Organizations and prominent individuals should endorse our action agenda and fax or e-mail your forms to Amy Fauver.
 
Check the Housing Alliance web site for current endorsement forms – look on the bottom of the page at http://www.oregonhousingalliance.org/agenda.html
 
WELCOME TO OUR NEWEST MEMBERS
 
City of Medford Housing and Community Development Commission

Do you know other organizations that might be interested in Housing Alliance membership? Information on membership and dues is available on line at: http://www.oregonhousingalliance.org/joinus.html
 


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

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

For information on the 2005 Legislative Session, click here.

Please email or call us with questions or ideas for how we can best keep you informed. Contact Amy Fauver or Michael Anderson.