Friday, October 8
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm PDT (3:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT)
PRESENTERS
U.S. Senator Ron Wyden
U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley
Madison Moskowitz, Domestic Economic Policy Advisor, Office of U.S. Senator Ron Wyden
Matthew Traylor, Housing Policy Advisor, Office of U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley
DESCRIPTION
Oregon’s U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley join us to explain new legislation they have introduced designed to address America’s crisis of housing availability and affordability by reducing the shortcomings of current housing policies and funding levels. After brief comments, the Senators’ policy staff will join for Q & A. Senator Ron Wyden’s DASH Act will make a generational investment to end childhood homelessness and tackle the housing affordability crisis by issuing Housing Choice Vouchers to all families with children; greatly increase the production of deeply affordable housing for families exiting homelessness and reform the Low Income Housing Tax Credit. Senator Merkley’s Affordable HOME Act will invest $40 billion per year in the National Housing Trust Fund; lower the cost of housing so everyone can afford a place to live; and build an emergency housing program to deploy resources during large-scale disasters like wildfires.