Homeless Families
Your articles on homeless families (Oct. 15 and 16) move me and prompt my speaking up.
Affordable housing for low-income people is nearly impossible to find these days. The National Coalition for the Homeless estimates that as many as 3 million Americans are homeless today. And a recent Congressional study indicates that if the current trend continues, as many as 19 million people may be homeless within the next 14 years.
Millions of U.S. apartments now receive federal subsidies under contracts that are about to expire and hundreds of thousands of others are receiving mortgage subsidies that soon will allow private, profit-motivated owners to convert the properties to condominiums or high-income rentals, displacing the renters.
Housing Now sent a loud and urgent message to Congress and the Bush Administration.
Housing Now is part of a nationwide, ongoing demand that every American have decent, affordable housing. Our job as citizens is to create the political will with our elected officials that will make it happen.
MARGUERITE PETERSON
Santa Ana
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