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COVID-19 Housing and Homelessness Provider Stakeholder Call June 24
Speakers:
- Allexa Laycock, Disability Rights Washington: allexal@rootedinrights.org
- Nan Roman, National Alliance to End Homelessness: nroman@naeh.org
- Liz Trautman, The Mockingbird Society: liz@mockingbirdsociety.org
- Tedd Kelleher, Dept. of Commerce: tedd.kelleher@commerce.wa.gov
ACTIONS YOU CAN TAKE TODAY
State Advocacy:
- Are you a board member, or do you work for a nonprofit organization? Join our Board Advocacy campaign and have your board pass a resolution in support of progressive revenue! Interested? Click here
- Take action and email your state lawmakers and the Governor, requesting they: make no cuts to homelessness and safety net programs, invest deeply in rental assistance, and enact progressive revenue! Take Action Here
- Mockingbird Society action for youth aging out of foster care:
- Contact Governor Inslee & Office of Financial Management!
Key message: "Approve emergency funding for youth aging out of foster care TODAY!"
https://www.governor.wa.gov/contact/contact/send-gov-inslee-e-message
David.postman@gov.wa.gov – Chief of Staff
David.Schumacher@ofm.wa.gov – Head of OFM
- Contact Governor Inslee & Office of Financial Management!
Federal Advocacy:
- Keep emailing members of congress and ask them to support Emergency Rental Assistance & Rental Market Stabilization Act.
- Organizations and local elected officials can sign NLIHC’s letter.
- The Housing Alliance is looking for people to send letters to the editor to your local newspaper. We have templates! If you are interested, please fill out this form and John Stovall will follow up with you.
Resources:
- Resources for creating accessible virtual meetings/calls from the Rooted in Rights project
- The Framework for an Equitable COVID-19 Homelessness Response, as Nan Roman presented.
- Watch "Making the Case for the Framework for an Equitable COVID-19 Homelessness Response"
- Nan Roman's slides
- And see attached for Liz Trautman's slides on challenges for youth aging out of foster care during COVID-19
If your landlord is trying or threatening to evict you between now and August 2nd, that is illegal in most cases, and the Attorney General's office is enforcing this. You can file a legal complaint with the AG here. And here is the link to the form in Spanish.
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