MOUSE PARTICIPATES IN FUNDRAISER FOR HOMELESS FAMILIES

I am sorry that I have not posted much this month.  I have been busy building a cardboard house.  I started my house long before Oct 14, as I sit on two national phone calls of different subsidized tenant groups who have been working to change the way HUD does business.

Personally I am not sure how much good we are doing with HUD, as I hear there is still some portions of HUD that are still under the impression that the Elderly, poor, and disabled are locked into their apartments, don't know how to read and really don't care about the policies, procedures, or laws surrounding low income housing.

I can say though, some of the language that appears in some of the housing bills, and laws that our voted collective voice (Politicians) have been discussing, voting on and trying to protect from the current scourge  of ever challenging budget cuts has been constructed by and with some of the people from the Resident Engagement Group, National Alliance of HUD Tenants, and good people like Catherine Bishop, from the National Housing Law Project , and Barbra Sard, from the Center of Budget, Policy, and Procedure, and former HUD appointed Senior Adviser for Rental Assistance. 

I may be a mouse in the weeds, but at least I am willing to put my (experience) two cents in, regardless of the outcome.

I wish more Montana Low-Income, Senior, Disabled Residential Rental Tenants would come and learn with me.