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The Center for Community Change: "Washington Advocates Rally, Legislature Increases Investment in Housing"

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The Center for Community Change's Housing Trust Fund Project released their Spring 2012 Newsletter, including an article about the legislative challenges we've faced in Washington State and the victories we've been able to accomplish thanks to the hard work of local advocates. It's pretty similar to what we have been saying for awhile now: the advocacy efforts of our members and the support from our legislative champions directly results in better results for the folks in need in our state. But it's nice to hear somebody else saying it about us for a change!

You can read it here: http://housingtrustfundproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Spring-2012-HTFund-Project-newsletter.pdf

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