NLIHC Organization
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All that Senate Had Done in the House with President Johnson Two or Three Years Earlier Civil Rights Voting Rights Medicare Medicaid Pell Grants Equal Opportunities Act on the Higher Education Act All those Things Congress Could Do It Couldn't Do Fair Housing Law It Just Couldn't Get It through Congress until Two Years Later Three Years Two and Three Years Later Right after Dr King Was Assassinated It's Clear that We Need a Housing System That Works for Everyone We Know What Jim Crow Did We Know What What Redlining Did and some since Still Does We Know the Discrimination in Housing Policy Far Too Often in Housing Actions Locally
All that Senate Had Done in the House with President Johnson Two or Three Years Earlier Civil Rights Voting Rights Medicare Medicaid Pell Grants Equal Opportunities Act on the Higher Education Act All those Things Congress Could Do It Couldn't Do Fair Housing Law It Just Couldn't Get It through Congress until Two Years Later Three Years Two and Three Years Later Right after Dr King Was Assassinated It's Clear that We Need a Housing System That Works for Everyone We Know What Jim Crow Did We Know What What Redlining Did and some since Still Does We Know the Discrimination in Housing Policy Far Too Often in Housing Actions Locally
13:07
It's Clear that We Need a Housing System That Works for Everyone We Know What Jim Crow Did We Know What What Redlining Did and some since Still Does We Know the Discrimination in Housing Policy Far Too Often in Housing Actions Locally and We Know that the Federal Government Now in this Administration Is Vacuum Backing Off Enforcing Anti-Discrimination Rules and Then Weaken those Rules so that's Why We Fight Back Your Advocacy on the Cares Act Is Really Important What's Really Important Today Is the Start of the Conversation I Want To Hear from Hear from You As Much as You Can Let My Staff and Me Know What Else We Need To Do Are as I Said Our Priority for the Next Act
It's Clear that We Need a Housing System That Works for Everyone We Know What Jim Crow Did We Know What What Redlining Did and some since Still Does We Know the Discrimination in Housing Policy Far Too Often in Housing Actions Locally and We Know that the Federal Government Now in this Administration Is Vacuum Backing Off Enforcing Anti-Discrimination Rules and Then Weaken those Rules so that's Why We Fight Back Your Advocacy on the Cares Act Is Really Important What's Really Important Today Is the Start of the Conversation I Want To Hear from Hear from You As Much as You Can Let My Staff and Me Know What Else We Need To Do Are as I Said Our Priority for the Next Act
13:33
He Is a Strong Champion for Affordable Housing and He's Introduced Legislation To Establish a Moratorium on Evictions during the Pandemic and He's Leading a Letter with His Colleagues in the House To Support One Hundred a Hundred Billion Dollars in Emergency Rental Assistance To Help Keep Low-Income Renters Stabili Housed during the Crisis so Congressman Garcia We Appreciate Your Leadership and Thanks So Much for Joining the Call I'Ll Turn It Over To Thank You Good Afternoon to Everyone on the Call I'M Congressman Hiss Who's Chuy Garcia and I Represent the Fourth District I'M Honored To Follow Senator Brown a Fierce Advocate for Affordable Housing in the Senate
He Is a Strong Champion for Affordable Housing and He's Introduced Legislation To Establish a Moratorium on Evictions during the Pandemic and He's Leading a Letter with His Colleagues in the House To Support One Hundred a Hundred Billion Dollars in Emergency Rental Assistance To Help Keep Low-Income Renters Stabili Housed during the Crisis so Congressman Garcia We Appreciate Your Leadership and Thanks So Much for Joining the Call I'Ll Turn It Over To Thank You Good Afternoon to Everyone on the Call I'M Congressman Hiss Who's Chuy Garcia and I Represent the Fourth District I'M Honored To Follow Senator Brown a Fierce Advocate for Affordable Housing in the Senate
15:32
We'Re Working in the Denver Metro Area Which Is Where We Have the Largest Number of Cases in the State and the Largest Population of People Experiencing Homelessness and We Are Doing a Two-Track Strategy Right Now the First Is that We Are Desperately Working to D Densify Our Current Shelter Systems Which Are Overcrowded and Not Able To Implement Physical Distancing for Their Guests and So We Just Recently Opened an Overflow Auxilary Expanded Shelter in the Denver Area for up to 700 Men and this Week It'Ll Be Taking an Additional 250 Women Unfortunately this Is Not the Most Ideal Scenario because We Know that People Need To Be Able To Isolate and Get As Much Space as Possible but We Also Know that the Spread of this Virus Could Be Highly Detrimental if It Began in Our Shelter System and
We'Re Working in the Denver Metro Area Which Is Where We Have the Largest Number of Cases in the State and the Largest Population of People Experiencing Homelessness and We Are Doing a Two-Track Strategy Right Now the First Is that We Are Desperately Working to D Densify Our Current Shelter Systems Which Are Overcrowded and Not Able To Implement Physical Distancing for Their Guests and So We Just Recently Opened an Overflow Auxilary Expanded Shelter in the Denver Area for up to 700 Men and this Week It'Ll Be Taking an Additional 250 Women Unfortunately this Is Not the Most Ideal Scenario because We Know that People Need To Be Able To Isolate and Get As Much Space as Possible but We Also Know that the Spread of this Virus Could Be Highly Detrimental if It Began in Our Shelter System and
21:31
Because We Know that People Need To Be Able To Isolate and Get As Much Space as Possible but We Also Know that the Spread of this Virus Could Be Highly Detrimental if It Began in Our Shelter System and So Our Part of that New Shelter System Is that We Set Up a New Clinic Space Where We Are Screening Everybody Coming into the Shelter and Anybody Who Has Symptoms or Fever It's Triaged and Then Evaluated for There for whether or Not They Need To Be Tested
Because We Know that People Need To Be Able To Isolate and Get As Much Space as Possible but We Also Know that the Spread of this Virus Could Be Highly Detrimental if It Began in Our Shelter System and So Our Part of that New Shelter System Is that We Set Up a New Clinic Space Where We Are Screening Everybody Coming into the Shelter and Anybody Who Has Symptoms or Fever It's Triaged and Then Evaluated for There for whether or Not They Need To Be Tested
22:12
And So We'Re Hoping that We Can Get Congress To Suspend that Process At Least for Just Renewals and if People Want To Propose New Programs through the Continuum of Care Funds those Could Go through the Notice of Application Process but Not the Renewal Funding but those Are the Things That We'Re Working on I Will Have To Jump Off the Call and a Few Minutes but I Am More than Happy To Provide My Email Address and if Anybody Has Questions or Would Like To Discuss How Their Efforts Can Mirror some of Ours or Might Be Improved from Ours I'D Be More than Happy To Have those Conversations after this Webinar and I Thank You all for Having Me and for Caring
And So We'Re Hoping that We Can Get Congress To Suspend that Process At Least for Just Renewals and if People Want To Propose New Programs through the Continuum of Care Funds those Could Go through the Notice of Application Process but Not the Renewal Funding but those Are the Things That We'Re Working on I Will Have To Jump Off the Call and a Few Minutes but I Am More than Happy To Provide My Email Address and if Anybody Has Questions or Would Like To Discuss How Their Efforts Can Mirror some of Ours or Might Be Improved from Ours I'D Be More than Happy To Have those Conversations after this Webinar and I Thank You all for Having Me and for Caring
26:08
Contact Information Is on Your Screen Now and for Others Will Be Sending Contact Information for Our Speakers as Follow-Up Information to Everybody Who's Registered for this Call so Thanks Again Kathy I'M Going To Turn It Now To Bill Faith from Coalition on Homelessness and Housing in Ohio One of Our Longest and Most Effective Partners and Champions for Affordable Housing as You Heard Senator Brown Say So Bill I'Ll Turn It Over to You It Was Quite a Compliment Here for My Senator Who Is My Hero
Contact Information Is on Your Screen Now and for Others Will Be Sending Contact Information for Our Speakers as Follow-Up Information to Everybody Who's Registered for this Call so Thanks Again Kathy I'M Going To Turn It Now To Bill Faith from Coalition on Homelessness and Housing in Ohio One of Our Longest and Most Effective Partners and Champions for Affordable Housing as You Heard Senator Brown Say So Bill I'Ll Turn It Over to You It Was Quite a Compliment Here for My Senator Who Is My Hero
27:04
And We Establish a Pandemic Fund That Is Set Up through Ohio Which We'Ve Raised about a Million Dollars for and Distributed Most of that as of this Morning Out to Groups with Many Grants To Help Them Address some of the Issues That They'Re Dealing with We'Ve Done Incentives for Staff To Stay on the Job Many of these Workers Don't Get Paid Squat I Mean It's 12 14 Bucks an Hour and They'Re Risking Their Life
And We Establish a Pandemic Fund That Is Set Up through Ohio Which We'Ve Raised about a Million Dollars for and Distributed Most of that as of this Morning Out to Groups with Many Grants To Help Them Address some of the Issues That They'Re Dealing with We'Ve Done Incentives for Staff To Stay on the Job Many of these Workers Don't Get Paid Squat I Mean It's 12 14 Bucks an Hour and They'Re Risking Their Life
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