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.
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.
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