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| | Action For Homes Newsletter Our Members Are Our Power. | | | | | | | |
Housing Champion Focus: When Representative Tarra Simmons fights for more equitable laws and social systems, she brings an abundant amount of lived experience. She recognized from personal experience with housing instability, economic insecurity, and lack of employment that the effects of incarceration extend well beyond time served in prison. | | | | | |
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 | Capital Re-Caps! With less than 4 weeks left in the legislative session, the deadlines come quicker, the number of bills has dwindled, all as the budgets begin to take center stage. READ MORE | | | | |  | Action Alert We need a BIG PUSH for HB 1236, SB 5160, and deep capital investments in affordable homes! READ MORE | | | | |  | Events Join our last two affordable housing advocates legislative and COVID 19 update calls. And save the date for Bring Washington Home! READ MORE | | | | | |
| | What We're Reading Salon.com: An analysis reveals that major property owners have largely realized profits, some massive, during the pandemic. Seattle Times: Experts say the problem is that many alleged incidents of racism are hard to identify and harder to prove. Seattle Times: Washington House Democrats released a budget proposal Friday that focuses on preventing the state from sinking into an even deeper housing and homelessness crisis due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Harvard Joint Enter for Housing Studies: Recently released data show that the number of people experiencing homelessness in the United States rose from 568,000 in January 2019 to 580,000 in January 2020. | | | | | |
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