WA Low Income Housing Alliance State Legislative Agenda: 2012

Priority Agenda

Invest in the Housing Trust Fund

Remove Barriers to Housing - Enact the Fair Tenant Screening Act: SB 5826/Kohl-Welles

Preserve the Housing and Essential Needs Program

Protect Revenue to Fight Homelessness through Document Recording Fees: HB 2048/Kenney and SB 5952/Kohl-Welles

Affordable Housing Policies We Support

Protect TANF and the families that rely on this important program

Mobile Home Landlord Tenant Act Clarficiation: HB 1566/Liias and SB 5433/Fraser

Protect Washington's Housing Trust Fund Investments: HB 1699/Kenney

Protect Youth Aging Out of Foster Care

Impact Fee Waiver for Affordable Housing: HB 1398/Fitzgibbon and SB 5524/White

Replicate Innovative and Cost-Saving Approaches to Address Chronic Homelessness: HB 1957/Goodman

Also go to: http://www.wliha.org/state.htm

The Affordable Housing Consortium  works for you with the  state legislature in cooperation with the Washington Low Income Housing Alliance. We provide legislative testimony and ongoing communication with elected officials. We also sponsor events to create awareness and support, identify resources and impact public policy.

We research and identify barriers to safe, decent and affordable hosing for low and very low-income households. Using this information, we then propose both public and private initiatives intended to eliminate those barriers.

We evaluate the effectiveness of current state policy and how it impacts our current situation, and we provide support to those policies and programs that address our needs most successfully.