The poll results underscore
In short, affordable housing matters. See the full poll results below for more details.
Sunday, July 8, 2007
Americans Consider Affordable Housing a Top Issue
A Zogby International poll commissioned by the Housing America 2007 partners found that nine out of ten Americans cite affordable housing as a high priority, and more than half believe housing policy with respect to the provision of affordable housing is on the wrong track. 
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«Oldest ‹Older 401 – 435 of 435Satish Bhaskar
Housing Authority of Kansas City, MO
Catherine Klein
Homeless Coordinator
Milwaukee Public Schools
Gwendolyn Cobin
As a single older woman who has experienced homelessness in my late 40's, affordable housing Milwaukee is crucial because many single older women are more displaced than men. Without more affordable housing, this population will become of a strain and more women will be sleeping and living in hostiles. The problem in Milwaukee is that the majority of these women who are homeless are because of lack of family support, mental illness, lonliness, lack of employment and education. My hope is that Congress needs to pass a bill to generated more funds to communities in the United States so that more affordable housing units can be established beginning in 2008
Jerry W. Cox, Executive Director
Ayden Housing Authority
Ayden NC
To provide affordable housing is a must to help low and very low income families to have a place they can call home.
Susan Jokai,
City of Upland, CA
Penny Earl 83301
Twin Falls and Jerome, Idaho Housing Authorities
Dennis R. Mobley
President, Mobley & Associates
Atlanta, GA
The primary housing vehicle of the 1930s-1960s ("project") is largely obsolete. Re-tooling must be facilitated and meanwhile it is disingenuous for the executive branch to seek, and the legislative to appropriate, less money than their own formulae dictate.
Chris Kizzie, Dennison Associates, Inc.
Holly Smith
Section 8 Interviewer
Lake Metropolitan Housing Authority
Gary Mayers
Housing Services ADminstrator
Trumbull Metropolitan Housing Authority
Michelle Sergent
Springfield Housing Authority
Springfield, Illinois 62703
Bobbie Jo Obradovich
Trumbull Metropolitan Housing Authority
44484
Peter Garbati
Malden Redevelopment Authority
What is more basic than decent affordable housing for Americans? We should and can do better.
Laura L Scaggs
Asha Family Services, Inc
Milwaukee, WI
Colleen M. Dattilio
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Krisanne M. Sheedy
Executive Director
Avon Housing Authority
Avon, MA
I was searching the web for signs of decent, safe, and affordable housing and came upon your site. As head of a recently homeless family, I have witnessed the destructive influence of current government housing schemes on members of my family and others. I am seeking to vote for a candidate who prioritizes progressive affordable housing for the less advantaged of Americas' families. From my perspective, we all pay an accelerated price when our government falters in addressing the growing need of equitable housing for low income families. My thanks and support to everyone at "Housing America Campaign" for having everyone in mind.
Many policy makers in the United States disagree with the concept of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a program promoted by our own Eleanor Roosevelt; it was widely accepted by the European Community. Adequate shelter along with other basics such as universal health-care and food are among the primary tenants of this declaration. The type of capitalism we have in the United States simply rails against it. In France, college students protesting there government’s slightest consideration of this type of ‘free-market’ capitalism classified it as ‘the law of the jungle capitalism’. Since the Reagan Presidency there has been a sharp regression in the U.S. with the intention of repudiating Franklin Roosevelt’s policy of the New Deal and it its many humane tenets. Hold your breath, Social Security might still be on the chopping block. Having safe affordable housing,adequate food and the safety net that Social Security give the general public some since of security. 'The law of the jungle capitalism'(free-market capitalism) operates best the more insecure the public becomes.
Denise M Vaughn
Springfield Housing Authority
Springfield, IL 62703
Tacoma Pierce County Affordable Housing Consortium
Phil Alonso
Sacramento Ending Chronic Homelessness Initiative
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Concerned Citizen
95814
Shamus Roller
Sacramento Housing Alliance
Patti Uplinger Executive Director
Housing Now Sacramento 95811
It is very challenging to locate affordable let alone accessible housing in Sacramento and the surrounding counties for people with extremly low incomes. They have the right to independence and to live in the community too!
Gordon Packard
co-founder, Primavera Foundation
Tucson, Arizona
Roy G. Hayter
Advocates for Affordable Housing
1691 Yale Drive
Mountain View, CA 94040
Affordable housing for low and very low income families is in very short supply here, and adversely affects the future of our children and the economic health of the whole community.
Kathleen Houle 95223
As a Planning Commissioner in Calaveras County, CA, I'm ashamed that we do not condition approval of new development on construction of workforce housing. People seem to forget that affordable housing is usually occupied by hardworking, productive but poorly paid public servants and local retail clerks. Let's welcome these people as our neighbors!
Tracy Jones, Phoenix, OR
Tanya Meyer
Sherry Fish
Sherry Fish
Wetumka Housing Authority
Mary Schneider
Housing Commission AA County
Taliea Hudson-Pack
Housing Commission of Anne Arundel County
Steven W. Peuquet, Ph.D.
Center for Community Research & Service
University of Delaware
It is important to have affordable housing in every area of our country. Housing that is affordable and of which the individual family can take ownership will lead to better cared for and safer neighborhoods!
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