Our letter to the President
Dear President Obama,
Please take action to end America’s affordable housing and homelessness crisis. We need:
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, June 2, 2009
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.
I need housing that is affordable to people receiving SSI.
Jovana Guadalupe, San Jose
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.
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
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