Our letter to the President

Dear President Obama,

Please take action to end America’s affordable housing and homelessness crisis. We need:
  • More section 8 vouchers immediately
  • Build public housing to meet the need
  • Full funding of the National Housing Trust Fund
  • Stop foreclosures

Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Nashan Lipps, San Jose


I am a disabled veteran and single mother who works for the County of Santa Clara in San Jose, California. When the section 8 housing list opened up two years ago in our county, I was receiving worker's compensation. I now have a 14% permanent disability and must take a combination of seven or eight medications daily in order to have a functional pain level, so I can do a semblance of normal activity on a daily basis.

We need open enrollment for section 8 housing in Silicon Valley. San Jose is very expensive, and when your income has been cut by 50% due to a health deficiency, then you lose everything like I have.

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