Blumenthal, Advocates Urge Passage Of Federal Housing Bill
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U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal and housing advocates urged passage Monday of a bipartisan housing bill the senator said has been years in the making that will begin to address the housing crisis facing Connecticut and the nation at large.
HARTFORD, CT — U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-CT, and housing advocates urged passage Monday of a bipartisan housing bill the senator said has been years in the making that will begin to address the housing crisis facing Connecticut and the nation at large.
Blumenthal was joined by Bobbi Riddick, community impact manager for the Connecticut Coalition to End Homelessness (CCEH) and Erin Boggs, executive director of Open Communities Alliance , at the MLK Apartments in Hartford’s South End to advocate for final passage of the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act .
The bill, which passed the House earlier this year, is scheduled for a vote in the Senate this week. “This major, sweeping housing bill, includes a panoply of sweeping measures for financing, for building, for manufacture and modular housing, for all of the new advances that are not only possible but necessary to address the housing crisis that we face right now,” Blumenthal said.
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