Seniors should not be on a fixed income in their golden years, thank you

Should the New York State Legislature fail to pass this legislation this spring, the diversion of trucks onto local streets will have catastrophic impacts, imperiling the health and safety of Brooklyn residents, damaging the region’s economy, and costing taxpayers $113 million more to complete the project. Design-Build is the only means to forestall this situation. It is an approach being used on major public and private projects nationwide to save time and money. Moreover, eight New York State agencies are already using Design-Build, but New York State has to-date refused to allow the City to use this time and cost-saving project delivery approach. By signing the petition, you will send a message to the State legislature and the Governor that Design-Build authority needs to be enacted without further delay.

Net Neutrality is under threat by corporate ISPs who have historically received huge tax breaks for services which they ended up not providing. It's time to take control of the 21st century's most valuable utility and bring high speeds at reasonable prices to CT residents.

Without choice of providers, the citizens of Anna are being taken for a ride when it comes to electric service. A large majority of residents of Anna who have GCEC as the electricity provider have seen huge increases in bills in the last few months that cannot be attributed to colder temperatures. I, for example, have seen my bill jump more than $400 over a 2 month period. Without choice, this will only continue. Make your voice heard!

Every working American and student is impacted by the financial slow bleed of a new array of toll roads. Privatizing toll roads we do not want or need will siphon off the tax benefit in private pockets. Let's all ask Congress to pass a budget that does not include such underhanded and ineffective methods.

I will utilize community support to initialize a measure for the City of Walnut Creek to consider installing traffic calming measures (e.g., stop signs, speed humps, bump out, etc.) in order to keep our neighborhood residents safe.

I think we should have more homeless shelters for veterans!!!

Dear Governor Charlie Baker, On behalf of the vulnerable people who are still struggling after Hurricane Maria, we urge you to formally request robust federal housing resources and programs, including the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Disaster Housing Assistance Program (DHAP), as well as a special allocation of the Low Income Housing Tax Credit, National Housing Trust Fund, and HOME Investment Partnerships Program, as soon as possible. History has shown us that DHAP is an effective and proven solution for individuals and families with the greatest needs – including low-income seniors, people with disabilities, families with children, veterans, people experiencing homelessness, and other at-risk populations – after devastating disasters. By providing temporary rental assistance and wrap-around case management, DHAP helps the lowest income families find permanent housing solutions, secure employment, and connect to public benefits as they rebuild their lives and get back on their feet. Today, we need DHAP more than ever. After Hurricane Maria, for example, extremely low-income families are facing significant barriers to accessing FEMA’s transitional shelter assistance. FEMA’s transitional shelter program must be renewed every 14 days, creating great instability for those relying on it. Because it expires permanently six months after the initial disaster declaration, transitional shelter will create severe housing instability for many households. Moreover, hotels participating in FEMA’s transitional shelter program often charge daily “resort” fees, require security deposits, and require that displaced households have credit cards – all of which are barriers for low income households that have already depleted any savings that they may have had and that are often unbanked or underbanked. Without DHAP, displaced, low income families often have little choice but to move into uninhabitable or overcrowded homes, stay at shelters, or sleep in their cars or on the streets. According to The Boston Herald and Mass Live, there are numerous accounts of individuals who were unable to access FEMA’s transitional housing assistance that later needed emergency hospital care after returning to mold-infested homes. Families with transitional housing vouchers have also been turned away from hotels and are living in unsanitary “tent cities” because they had no place to go. Before HUD can stand up its DHAP program, however, FEMA must enter into an interagency agreement with HUD. While FEMA has the authority to do this without any further state action, the agency has been reticent to do so without a request from your office. We urge you to request that FEMA enter into an interagency agreement with HUD immediately to allow HUD to stand up its DHAP program to serve eligible hurricane survivors in the state. In Massachusetts, we suffer from a severe shortage of affordable rental homes. Even before the storm, there were only 46 affordable and available homes for 100 families with extremely low incomes in Massachusetts. Cities like Boston and Springfield have even fewer affordable and available homes, with less than 40 homes for every 100 extremely low-income households. The damage caused by Hurricane Maria means that there is even less supply and more demand. For that reason, we urge you to request other targeted federal housing and community development resources that can be used to rebuild our communities and ensure that the current affordable rental housing crisis across the state is not made worse. This includes a special allocation of four specific housing programs: the National Housing Trust Fund, a new federal resource designed specifically to address the shortage of affordable rental housing for people with the greatest needs; Low Income Housing Tax Credits, along with broadly supported modifications to increase efficiency and expand the program’s reach to the lowest income households; HOME Investment Partnerships program funding; and New Markets Tax Credits. DHAP and these targeted resources are necessary to ensure that the housing recovery is complete, equitable, and speedy.

I travel hwy 349 at least two times a day and the grooves in the road are terrible. It thows vehicles into other lanes and is becoming a safety hazard.

The Florida Legislature is entitled to divert money from affordable housing programs to their own purposes. This is affecting particularly low income families from owning or renting a home. Our Senator, Kathleen Passidomo, is attempting to pass legislation limiting the Florida Legislature from taking Sadowski Trust Funds to unappropriated sources. There are over 34,000 homeless individuals just in Florida and when the budget was lowered, several pedestrians found themselves without housing. In fact, it wasn’t just the budget that was tempered. The prices for rent have also skyrocketed, and it has become exceptionally troublesome to find rent.

Net Neutrality is a very important issue to me. A free and open Internet is what allows us to make contact with others, start businesses, and keep up to date on the world around us.

On January 31st at 6:20 pm, my sister, Maricela Barajas, was run over while crossing the street at the crosswalk. She was pronounced brain-dead on 02/01/18. This is an extremely busy intersection with a light right after the crosswalk and drivers only pay attention to the light and don’t notice pedestrians crossing on the crosswalk. The city needs to revisit this intersection and make it safe for the residents.