Lutheran Services in America Supports National Affordable Housing Trust Fund
June 28, 2007 – Baltimore, MD – Lutheran Services in America (LSA) participated in a news conference June 28 in Washington, DC organized by Rep. Barney Frank, Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, Representative Maxine Waters (D-CA), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity, and Representative Jim Ramstad (R-MN) to unveil the "National Affordable Housing Trust Fund Act of 2007," bipartisan legislation to create a National Housing Trust Fund.
Lutheran Services in America (LSA) has identified creating and preserving affordable housing as one of the highest public policy priorities for this Congress. LSA member organizations currently offer over 16,000 affordable housing units and beds for low income people throughout the United States and the Caribbean.
In a statement distributed at the June 28 news conference, LSA said, “LSA supports legislation establishing a National Affordable Housing Trust Fund for the production of new housing and the preservation or rehabilitation of existing housing that is affordable for people with low incomes. We applaud the goal of the proposed Trust Fund to produce, rehabilitate, and preserve 1.5 million units of housing over the next 10 years.”
Lutheran Services in America creates opportunities for people in thousands of communities throughout the United States and the Caribbean as an alliance of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod and the nearly 300 Lutheran health and human service organizations that offer healing and hope to one in every 50 Americans through services such as health care, housing, adoptions, disability, and aging support neighbor to neighbor.