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Senate Co-Sponsorship Memoranda
Senate of Pennsylvania
Session of 2017 - 2018
Regular Session
MEMORANDUM
| Posted: | December 6, 2016 10:00 AM |
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| From: | Senator Vincent J. Hughes |
| To: | All Senate members |
| Subject: | Veterans Housing (Redevelopment Capital Assistance Projects) |
| In the near future, I will be re-introducing SB745 of last session. This legislation is designed to ensure the availability of veterans housing within Pennsylvania. My proposal will authorize projects that will create housing units for our veterans’ population as eligible for redevelopment assistance capital project funds. In addition to making such projects eligible for funding, my bill will use a minimum of $25,000,000 (up from $20,000,000 in SB 1134) of the current available $50,000,000 allocation toward the construction of housing units specifically to house homeless veterans or veterans in need within this Commonwealth. Over the past several years the number of homeless veterans in the Commonwealth has decrease; however, in 2016, there were still more than 1,100 homeless veterans across the Commonwealth. These numbers do not include those veterans who are imminent danger of becoming homeless. The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has initiated a campaign to end veterans’ homelessness nationwide. I believe earmarking RACP funds for veterans’ housing will help us achieve the goal of reducing, and eventually eliminating, veterans’ homelessness in Pennsylvania Previous cosponsors of this legislation were: Blake, Brewster, Fontana, Rafferty, Schwank, Williams and Yudichak. Please join me in cosponsoring this important piece of legislation. |
Introduced as SB267