Title: Supportive Housing for the Elderly Program

Summary: Urging Congress to restore and provide adequate funding for the Supportive Housing for the Elderly Program, etc.

Full Text:
WHEREAS, more than percent of the senior population nationwide resides in nine states, including second-ranked Florida, which, in 2011, had a senior population of 3.4 million, and WHEREAS, interest rates for personal savings accounts have dropped to less than one-half of percent, pension and health care payments for retirees are decreasing, and the value and security of investments in 401(k) retirement savings accounts and stocks have dramatically decreased, and WHEREAS, federal funding for low-cost housing for seniors has been cut drastically, with no new construction funded in 2012, and WHEREAS, thousands of low-income seniors are in immediate, desperate need for low-cost housing, NOW, THEREFORE, Be It Resolved by the Legislature of the State of Florida: That the Congress of the United States is urged to assist our nation s low-income seniors by restoring and adequately funding the Supportive Housing for the Elderly Program. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this memorial be dispatched to the President of the United States, to the President of the United States Senate, to the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, and to each member of the Florida delegation to the United States Congress.