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Article: Religious orders, prelates endorse housing trust fund. (Nation).(Catholic religious leaders)(Brief Article)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- May 10, 2002
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Catholic religious leaders are at the forefront of a coalition of religious leaders nationwide calling for the creation of a national affordable-housing trust fund.
The fund, which would not require new taxes to finance it, would help stem a growing housing crisis for the nation's poorest households. Money for it would come from a surplus from the Federal Housing Administration.
Through April 24, 187 members of the House had co-sponsored legislation creating the trust fund, 31 shy of a majority that could force a vote.
Catholic leaders were joined by U.S. Protestant, Muslim, Jewish and Buddhist religious leaders in signing an April 24 letter to ...