Affordable Housing Trust Fund
I introduced House Bill 2600, this past summer, as a way in which we could create the Affordable Housing Trust Fund. This legislation would enable the Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency to build, rehabilitate or preserve housing for low-to-moderate income people, the elderly and people with disabilities.
Providing adequate housing is critical to economic vitality and will serve as an economic stimulus to communities.
Creating an affordable trust fund is just one tool that could help keep existing owners in their homes and would give everyone a fair chance to achieve the American dream of homeownership.
Currently there are more than 15,000 Pennsylvanians are homeless and more than 90,000 families statewide are on various housing authority waiting lists. These numbers are unacceptable.
Thirty-eight other states have already created such funds to stimulate production of affordable housing. Let’s help make Pennsylvania number thirty-nine!
Current updates on House Bill 2600
Sept. 17th - House Commerce Committee holds a hearing on House Bill 2600
Sept. 17th - House Bill 2600 was unanimously approved by the House Commerce Committee
Sept. 24th - House Bill 2600 was voted out on second consideration
Oct. 6th - House Bill 2600 was passed by the House 159-41.
This legislation now goes to the Senate for consideration.
In the News
 s for Support the PA Housing Trust Fund
Pictured from left to right: Iman Floyd-Carroll, Chairman Peter J. Daley, Rachel Falkove, Executive Director, Interfaith Hospitality Network of NW Philadelphia (NPIHN), Colleen Floyd-Carroll, Housing Program Manager, Transformational Housing Initiative of NPIHN, Thomasine Mungo, Mercedes Reyes, Chairman Dick Hess, and Carol Marchand, Executive Director of the Interfaith Hospitality Network of the Main Line, Norristown, PA.
About the Banner:
Iman, Mercedes, and scores of children from Project Learn School and their Free Saturday Community Art Program made the banner as part of their MLK day of service this past January. They have ardently supported the development of the PA Housing Trust Fund by sending Holiday cards and Valentines to their legislators asking them for to "Give homes for the Holidays" and to "Have a heart for Homes!”
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