Olivia Cavada, San Jose

Es necesario que ayudes porque si se necesita mucha ayuda.

Tim R. Barton, Milpitas, CA

My income became severely impacted , so I could not pay my rent and I was evicted.

Stella Dominguez, Los Banos, CA

Cindy Plascencia, San Jose

Dear President Obama,

We need a more affordable cost of living, if you could support us. Yes, we can do it!

Thank you, and God bless you.

Marguerite Miller, Cupertino, CA

I am becoming increasingly concerned about the lack of affordable housing in Santa Clara County, as well as the skyrocketing number of foreclosures.

Maria Alvarez, San Jose

Daniel Ruvalcaba Sanchez, San Jose

Estoy viviendo con amigos porque no hay trabajo ahorita. Tengo un ano buscando trabajo, y si no hay trabajo, no tengo renta para casa o apartamente.

Rosita Martinez, San Jose

Mike Yoshimoto, San Jose

We need more affordable housing, especially in the high rent Bay Area. A majority of service workers here work two jobs, just to be able to survive, paying for food, utilities, transportation, clothing, and the high cost of rental housing.

Thomas A. Hunter, San Jose

Our community - Santa Clara County - is in urgent need of the actions mentioned above.

Money spent to help in these areas will be a dramatic benefit - a true stimulus - to our neighbors and friends here.

Please act quickly, and keep on working for PEACE.

Maria Flores & Yumalai, San Jose

Por favor necesitamos urgentamente que nos bajen la renta, porque el trabajo esta muy escaso. Uno tiene que recebir a servicios como estampillas y welfare porque no nos alcanza el dinero. Gracias.

David Warner, Sunnyvale, CA

During our time of financial and economic shortage, please keep social needs in high priority on the list of our national needs.

I am a special education teacher in schools in Cupertino, California. You are doing a great job and I believe in you! Thank you.

Adrienna Peckham, San Jose

I am on SSI and have mental health assistance. The rent is too high for me to live on my own so I have to live with other people.

Lucia Trenado Zalazar, San Jose

Mas viviendas para gente de bajo ingreso.

No mas deportaciones. La gente viene a trabajar, no a robar a nadie.

Rev. John Frieseman, San Jose

We need to make lowest cost housing a priority.

Yvonne Caudillo, San Jose

Dear Mr. President,

Please send us help with housing and education. Our children are way behind compared to other counties as you know. I just became a section 8 voucher recipient, after being a single mother of twins and being homeless off and on for three years.

Gracie Pinon, San Jose

We need more section 8 vouchers immediately because lots of people are homeless.

Katherine Lewis, Fremont, CA

Lives are at stake! Funding these programs will save money by preventing declining mental health issues, decreasing and preventing homelessness, and preventing crime. Thanks for all that you are doing and for the hope and inspiration you have brought to the country. Please find a way to fund the National Housing Trust Fund.

James Phillips, San Jose

I have been homeless for almost three years. I will be more than grateful for any help you send.

Brenda Penahoza, San Jose

Ola Obama,

Necesitamos que nos den papeles, aseguranza del doctor, y que bajen las rentas.

Tuan Van Vo, San Jose

Laura Alba, San Jose

Que no siguen haciendo recortes en las escuelas, ya que nos perjudica mucho, tanto a nuestros hijos y a los padres.

Annie Kamal, Elijah, & Ezekiel, San Jose

Dena Dickinson, San Jose

Stable housing contributes to health, job search and maintenance, child welfare, and security.

Affordable housing is critical for maintaining our society.

Help low-income people keep their health and sense of well-being.

Increase resources for section 8 housing and other sources of affordable housing.

Maria del Rosario Murillo, San Jose

Necesitamos viviendas de bajos ingresos.

Michael Payne-Alex, San Jose

Josue Moreno, San Jose

1) Necesitamos ayuda en la renta.

2) Necesitamos ayuda en conseguir trabajo para mi y para mi esposa.

Linda Whitaker, San Jose

I am low-income and I have a disability. I would love more low-income housing.

Cleta Martell, San Jose

Aaron Martinez, San Jose

We really need help out here for low-income people. We are struggling.

Mary Martin, Los Gatos, CA

Corinna A. Batis, San Jose

Please, I have been on the waiting list for over five years and have lived in my car for three and a half of those years.

I ask for your help for myself and for others who are in my situation.

I thank you, and Gos bless America.

Marina Gonzalez, San Jose

Elton Ray Dyer Jr., San Jose

I am currently a student at San Jose State University and about to move out. I really need assistance, not because I want it, but because I need it.

Mr. President, will you please heal the world from sickness and suffering. I know for a fact that you will change the world. Look what you did in the first 100 days.

I am proud of you and really would like to meet you one day. But if I can't, then I know you are doing your job.

God job and good luck, Mr. President.

Daniel Antonio Garcia, San Jose

I am currently homeless, living in substandard housing.

I need housing that is affordable to people receiving SSI.

Jovana Guadalupe, San Jose

Muchas gracias por ser Presidente.

Pero tenemos muchas peticiones para que usted nos ayude.

A mejorar nuestra situacion en esta pais. Ya que no soy de aqui.

Y que si fuera posible todos los puntos mencionados arriba.

Muchas gracias por todo y que tenga una vida plena y de salud. Gracias.

Jean H. Von Kaenel, Los Gatos, CA

Diana J. Rodriguez, Todd Fattalini, & Angelina, San Jose

We are requesting more help for the homeless and funding for housing.

Margarita Garcia, San Jose

Necesitamos mas ayuda para poder tener viviendas. Todo esta muy caro. Todo esta cada dia mas dificil, y uno no tiene los recursos necesarios para salir adelante y tener una vida mejor. Agradesco su ayuda.

Virginia Parks, Santa Clara, CA

Dear President Obama:

My friend, Martha, lives with mental illness and is on SSI Disability. When she put her name on the Section 8 housing waiting list in 2006 she was number 33,000. Now she is number 4,417 on the list.

In the meantime, she has bounced around, living with relatives and friends and in shelters. Each stay is between one night and six months. This transient living situation has grossly reduced Martha’s ability to cope with her mental illness. I think if she had a stable home, she’d be better able to improve her ability to live with her illness, and maybe even get study enough to be able to do part time work.

Please work with Congress to improve funding for Section 8, the Housing Trust Fund and all other housing programs for the poor, aged and ill.

Renae Johnson, San Jose

Why don't they have the Army Corps of Engineers build housing like the housing on military bases?

Raul Garcia, San Jose

Sir,

Look, you know that what we "poor" (as the rich call us) need is shelter and food. So! Stop using our government tax money for war! You are going to hear this from a lot of people. So please help.