ACTION ALERT for Illinois House: TODAY ONLY May 31, 2011 : Illinois Emergency and Transitional Housing will be cut by 52%

House Must Approve Amended Budget to Restore Budget Cuts TODAY

The Senate approved the House version of the budget yesterday, House Bill 3717, but also passed an amendment to the state capital budget, House Bill 2189, restoring $431 million in budget cuts, including the cuts to Emergency and Transitional Housing and Homeless Prevention.

If the House doesn't approve the amended budget, Emergency and Transitional Housing will be cut by 52% to $4.4 million and Homeless Prevention will be cut 38% to $1.5 million.

Please call your House members in Springfield, even if you have already called, and ask them to support the Senate amendment restoring cuts to human service programs. If you have a personal means of contact with a legislator, such as a cell phone or email address, please use that. Otherwise, ask the legislative assistant who answers the phone in Springfield to send your message to the Representative on the floor. You can get their Springfield phone numbers here:
http://www.ilga.gov/house/default.asp

Please let me know if you make a call.
Thank you.
For more information contact Bob Palmer, Housing Action Illinois, 312-939-6074 x. 206 or bob@housingactionil.org.