MARGUERITE PRIDGEN

not applicable

Medicaid, public health infrastucture, home and community based services, Money Follows the Person SUPPORT Act reauthorization Medicaid HCBS Access Act

Community Development Financial Institutions, New Markets Tax Credit, private activity bonds, housing credit reform

healthcare, housing, community development, financial services

Community Development Financial Insistitutions, community reinvestment activities

scaling supportive housing and expanding supportive services, increasing home and community based services, advancing economic mobility for low-income families

expanding Medicaid home and community based services to include housing stabilization services and to align with vouchers and other services not funded through Medicaid, establishing a fund to build capacity of community-based organizations to deliver reimbursable Medicaid services

prioritization of funding to convert hotels/motels and blighted/foreclosed housing into affordable housing, set-aside in National Housing Trust Fund and Capital Magnet Fund for development and operation of permanent supportive housing, securing funding for housing preservation and office of housing justice/reparations for victims of redlining, blockbusting, etc.

housing credit reform

grandfather CDFIs into managing SBA programs such as Paycheck Protection Program without requiring that they comply with banking regulations or SBA designations

support for repurposing hotels/motels as residential properties for homeless; combining infrastructure, housing, and economic development funding to develop high opportunity urban and rural communities

conversion of hotels/motels/blighted buildings to supportive housing and affordable housing; community-driven infrastructure and economic development that mitigates risk of displacement of existing residents

expanding Medicaid home and community based services to include housing stabilization services and to align with vouchers and other services not funded through Medicaid, establishing a fund to build capacity of community-based organizations to deliver reimbursable Medicaid services

prioritization of funding to convert hotels/motels and blighted/foreclosed housing into affordable housing, set-aside in National Housing Trust Fund and Capital Magnet Fund for development and operation of permanent supportive housing, securing funding for housing preservation and office of housing justice/reparations for victims of redlining, blockbusting, etc.

use racial disparities and disproportionalities indices to drive policy decisions and to allocate program resources

conversion of hotels/motels/blighted buildings to supportive housing and affordable housing; community-driven infrastructure and economic development that mitigates risk of displacement of existing residents

housing credit reform

scaling supportive housing and expanding supportive services, increasing home and community based services, advancing economic mobility for low-income families

grandfather CDFIs into managing SBA programs such as Paycheck Protection Program without requiring that they comply with banking regulations or SBA designations

grandfather CDFIs into managing SBA programs such as Paycheck Protection Program without requiring that they comply with banking regulations or SBA designations

conversion of hotels/motels/blighted buildings to supportive housing and affordable housing; community-driven infrastructure and economic development that mitigates risk of displacement of existing residents

scaling supportive housing and expanding supportive services, increasing home and community based services, advancing economic mobility for low-income families

expanding Medicaid home and community based services to include housing stabilization services and to align with vouchers and other services not funded through Medicaid, establishing a fund to build capacity of community-based organizations to deliver reimbursable Medicaid services

housing credit reform

conversion of hotels/motels/blighted buildings to supportive housing and affordable housing; community-driven infrastructure and economic development that mitigates risk of displacement of existing residents

support for repurposing hotels/motels as residential properties for homeless in American Rescue Plan

expanding Medicaid home and community based services to include housing stabilization services and to align with vouchers and other services not funded through Medicaid

grandfather CDFIs into managing SBA programs such as Paycheck Protection Program without requiring that they comply with banking regulations or SBA designations

use racial disparities and disproportionalities indices to drive policy decisions and to allocate program resources

grandfather CDFIs into managing SBA programs such as Paycheck Protection Program without requiring that they comply with banking regulations or SBA designations

housing credit reform

no activity

Allowing Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) to be automatically qualified as administrators of SBA administered programs such as Paycheck Protection Program and community development grants/loans; set-asides for CDFIs to administer G2B and G2C funds in next COVID-19 legislation and beyond

Discretionary fund set-aside in supportive services block grant (SSBG) and National Housing Trust Fund matching funds to work with communities in census tracts most negatively impacted by disproportionalities and disparities in various systems (see csh.org/data) that want career development, affordable housing, healthcare, finance and other services

Many older adults and people with severe disabilities shouldnt have to go into nursing homes during the COVID-19 emergency. Many already in nursing homes could be moved into private or supportive housing during the COVID-19 emergency. With the right mix of home and community based services, both of these scenarios can happen. Please make sure the next COVID-19 relief bill includes the following support for older adults and people with disabilities: 1.Indefinite extension of Money Follows the Person-MFP (CARES Act extension ends in November) will allow people in nursing homes to continue to get coverage for healthcare and other services if their families or the nursing home administrators remove them from the nursing home system and place them into noncongregate settings. 2.Emergency vouchers to allow older adults and people with disabilities with limited resources to move out of nursing homes and into private or supportive housing where they can be cared for safely. We recommend a set-aside for older adults in the amount of $2.1B in emergency vouchers; individuals with Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities, $2.1B in emergency vouchers. 3.Simplify access to FEMA disaster relief. Please add a provision that states that FEMA disaster relief funds may be used to acquire or renovate property for use as noncongregate shelter and healthcare facilities for people transitioning out of congregate settings with no place to go and that states and localities should prioritize these funds for this purpose. FEMAs process for getting the local public health officials and emergency coordinators approval for this activity is cumbersome and is based on the procedure it uses to deal with local natural disasters. COVID-19 is a national health emergency and the justification for noncongregate spaces and social distancing has already been provided by federal public health officials and the public health data. We know that many nursing homes will continue to have major issues despite the Administrations efforts to improve them during the pandemic. Give localities that are still COVID-19 hotspots the opportunity to get these people spaced apart before the Fall round of COVID-19 which is also influenza season-also deadly for this population. 4. Ensuring restorative justice budgets provide for adequate access to health care for returning citizens

Allocating community investment appropriations, Low income housing tax credit (LIHTC), and New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC) using a Racial Disparities and Disproportionality Index in determining allocation of funding for local government (see csh.org/data and US Census American Community Survey)

Urged authorizing committees to make permanent The New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC) Extension Act of 2019 (H.R. 1680) and to expand and reform the Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) program. Permanently extend the NMTC through the bipartisan New Markets Tax Credit Extension Act of 2019 (S.750/H.R. 1680) Provide an exception from the Alternative Minimum Tax for NMTC investments Provide an emergency NMTC allocation of $1 billion to be added to the pending 2019 round (for a total of $4.5 billion) Provide an additional NMTC allocation of $1.5 billion to be added to the 2020 round (for a total of $6.5 billion for 2020), and $1 billion to the 2021 round (for a total of $6 billion for 2021).

HUD - Set aside for supportive housing in every housing program HHS - Set aside for supportive services and health care to be provided in supportive housing (establish a SSBG discretionary set-aside) DOJ - COPS funding only available to jurisdictions with low wrongful conviction rates; NEW restorative justice block grant to pay for DNA exoneration for prisoners who cannot get state DNA testing approval within 30 days of conviction (state discretionary funds will be reduced by federal funding used for this purpose), compensate innocent people for the harm experienced by wrongful conviction and incarceration and provide supportive services and automatic housing vouchers (or rental assistance) free of charge for a term that matches duration of incarceration for wrongful conviction (housing development/rehabilitation costs provided if housing is not available).

Allocating community investment appropriations, Low income housing tax credit (LIHTC), and New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC) using a Racial Disparities and Disproportionality Index in determining allocation of funding for local government (see csh.org/data and US Census American Community Survey)

Emails requesting legislative action to increase supportive housing as a solution to justice reform. People with behavioral health and substance use disorders need access to quality treatment not jail. When the police do get involved, they should know how and when to divert people away from the criminal justice system and into systems where helpful and healing services are provided. For those who need more intensive support, Supportive Housing is a proven solution. People with behavioral health and substance use disorders need access to quality treatment not incarceration or punishment. When the police do get involved, they should know how and when to divert people away from the criminal justice system and into systems where helpful and healing services are provided. For those who need more intensive support, Supportive Housing is a proven solution. We estimate that nationwide, rental assistance or housing needs for people with severe substance use and mental health issues is about 101,000 units ($960M in vouchers). Supportive services needs would be $1.1B each year. More data is available on our website and is broken down by state and special population.

Ensuring that community development funding, LIHTC, and NMTC in infrastructure proposals are targeted in a manner to significantly reduce disproportionalities and disparities in various systems (csh.org/data)

Many older adults and people with severe disabilities shouldnt have to go into nursing homes during the COVID-19 emergency. Many already in nursing homes could be moved into private or supportive housing during the COVID-19 emergency. With the right mix of home and community based services, both of these scenarios can happen. Please make sure the next COVID-19 relief bill includes the following support for older adults and people with disabilities: 1.Indefinite extension of Money Follows the Person-MFP (CARES Act extension ends in November) will allow people in nursing homes to continue to get coverage for healthcare and other services if their families or the nursing home administrators remove them from the nursing home system and place them into noncongregate settings. 2.Emergency vouchers to allow older adults and people with disabilities with limited resources to move out of nursing homes and into private or supportive housing where they can be cared for safely. We recommend a set-aside for older adults in the amount of $2.1B in emergency vouchers; individuals with Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities, $2.1B in emergency vouchers. 3.Simplify access to FEMA disaster relief. Please add a provision that states that FEMA disaster relief funds may be used to acquire or renovate property for use as noncongregate shelter and healthcare facilities for people transitioning out of congregate settings with no place to go and that states and localities should prioritize these funds for this purpose. FEMAs process for getting the local public health officials and emergency coordinators approval for this activity is cumbersome and is based on the procedure it uses to deal with local natural disasters. COVID-19 is a national health emergency and the justification for noncongregate spaces and social distancing has already been provided by federal public health officials and the public health data. We know that many nursing homes will continue to have major issues despite the Administrations efforts to improve them during the pandemic. Give localities that are still COVID-19 hotspots the opportunity to get these people spaced apart before the Fall round of COVID-19 which is also influenza season-also deadly for this population. 4. Ensuring restorative justice budgets provide for adequate access to health care for returning citizens

HUD - Set aside for supportive housing in every housing program HHS - Set aside for supportive services and health care to be provided in supportive housing (establish a SSBG discretionary set-aside) DOJ - COPS funding only available to jurisdictions with low wrongful conviction rates; NEW restorative justice block grant to pay for DNA exoneration for prisoners who cannot get state DNA testing approval within 30 days of conviction (state discretionary funds will be reduced by federal funding used for this purpose), compensate innocent people for the harm experienced by wrongful conviction and incarceration and provide supportive services and automatic housing vouchers (or rental assistance) free of charge for a term that matches duration of incarceration for wrongful conviction (housing development/rehabilitation costs provided if housing is not available).

Emails requesting legislative action to increase supportive housing as a solution to justice reform. People with behavioral health and substance use disorders need access to quality treatment not jail. When the police do get involved, they should know how and when to divert people away from the criminal justice system and into systems where helpful and healing services are provided. For those who need more intensive support, Supportive Housing is a proven solution. People with behavioral health and substance use disorders need access to quality treatment not jail. When the police do get involved, they should know how and when to divert people away from the criminal justice system and into systems where helpful and healing services are provided. For those who need more intensive support, Supportive Housing is a proven solution. We estimate that nationwide, rental assistance or housing needs for people with severe substance use and mental health issues is about 101,000 units ($960M in vouchers). Supportive services needs would be $1.1B each year. More data is available on our website and is broken down by state and special population.

Allowing Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) to be automatically qualified as administrators of SBA administered programs such as Paycheck Protection Program and community development grants/loans; set-asides for CDFIs to administer G2B and G2C funds in next COVID-19 legislation and beyond

Urged authorizing committees to make permanent The New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC) Extension Act of 2019 (H.R. 1680) and to expand and reform the Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) program. Permanently extend the NMTC through the bipartisan New Markets Tax Credit Extension Act of 2019 (S.750/H.R. 1680) Provide an exception from the Alternative Minimum Tax for NMTC investments Provide an emergency NMTC allocation of $1 billion to be added to the pending 2019 round (for a total of $4.5 billion) Provide an additional NMTC allocation of $1.5 billion to be added to the 2020 round (for a total of $6.5 billion for 2020), and $1 billion to the 2021 round (for a total of $6 billion for 2021).

Ensuring that community development funding, LIHTC, and NMTC in infrastructure proposals are targeted to significantly reduce disproportionalities and disparities in various systems (csh.org/data)

Discretionary supportive services block grant (SSBG)set-aside and National Housing Trust Fund matching funds for HUD-supported development in census tracts disproportionately impacted by various systems (csh.org/data)

Set aside in National Housing Trust Fund for supportive housing

Set aside in National Housing Trust Fund for supportive housing

Emails requesting legislative action to increase supportive housing as a solution to justice reform. People with behavioral health and substance use disorders need access to quality treatment not jail. When the police do get involved, they should know how and when to divert people away from the criminal justice system and into systems where helpful and healing services are provided. For those who need more intensive support, Supportive Housing is a proven solution. People with behavioral health and substance use disorders need access to quality treatment not jail. When the police do get involved, they should know how and when to divert people away from the criminal justice system and into systems where helpful and healing services are provided. For those who need more intensive support, Supportive Housing is a proven solution. We estimate that nationwide, rental assistance or housing needs for people with severe substance use and mental health issues is about 101,000 units ($960M in vouchers). Supportive services needs would be $1.1B each year. More data is available on our website and is broken down by state and special population.

Ensuring that community development funding, LIHTC, and NMTC in infrastructure proposals are targeted to significantly reduce disproportionalities and disparities in various systems (csh.org/data)

Allowing Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) to be automatically qualified as administrators of SBA administered programs such as Paycheck Protection Program and community development grants/loans; set-asides for CDFIs to administer G2B and G2C funds in next COVID-19 legislation and beyond

Allocating community investment appropriations, Low income housing tax credit (LIHTC), and New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC) using a Racial Disparities and Disproportionality Index in determining allocation of funding for local government in COVID-19 relief (csh.org/data)

Discretionary supportive services block grant (SSBG)set-aside and National Housing Trust Fund matching funds for HUD-supported development in census tracts disproportionately impacted by various systems (csh.org/data)

Urged authorizing committees to make permanent The New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC) Extension Act of 2019 (H.R. 1680) and to expand and reform the Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) program. Permanently extend the NMTC through the bipartisan New Markets Tax Credit Extension Act of 2019 (S.750/H.R. 1680) Provide an exception from the Alternative Minimum Tax for NMTC investments Provide an emergency NMTC allocation of $1 billion to be added to the pending 2019 round (for a total of $4.5 billion) Provide an additional NMTC allocation of $1.5 billion to be added to the 2020 round (for a total of $6.5 billion for 2020), and $1 billion to the 2021 round (for a total of $6 billion for 2021).

Emails requesting legislative action to increase supportive housing in response to COVID-19 health emergency and economic recovery needs. Creation of 1.1 million supportive housing apartments would dramatically shift the way we address health, income, and racial disparities of the most vulnerable Americans in the midst of the countrys largest public health crisis in nearly a century. This effort would drive $400 billion in catalytic investments generating nearly 900,000 new construction and permanent jobs in housing management and human services. advocated for housing choice vouchers

Emailed support for expanding broadband,telehealth, supportive services, and certified community behavioral health centers (CCBHCs) in rural and urban areas without them that have been disproportionately impacted by COVID-19 or crisis systems: csh.org/data. Emailed support for Supportive housing as alternative to nursing homes: https://d155kunxf1aozz.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/AGING_web.pdf Extension of Money Follows the Person beyond CARES Act sunset (11/30/2020)

Adding community development, LIHTC, and NMTC to infrastructure proposals; using a Racial Disparities and Disproportionality Index in determining allocation of funding for local government in COVID-19 relief (csh.org/data)

Urged authorizing committees to make permanent The New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC) Extension Act of 2019 (H.R. 1680) and to expand and reform the Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) program. Permanently extend the NMTC through the bipartisan New Markets Tax Credit Extension Act of 2019 (S.750/H.R. 1680) Provide an exception from the Alternative Minimum Tax for NMTC investments Provide an emergency NMTC allocation of $1 billion to be added to the pending 2019 round (for a total of $4.5 billion) Provide an additional NMTC allocation of $1.5 billion to be added to the 2020 round (for a total of $6.5 billion for 2020), and $1 billion to the 2021 round (for a total of $6 billion for 2021).

Discretionary supportive services block grant (SSBG)set-aside for census tracts disproportionately impacted by justice system (csh.org/data)

Preserve and increase key investments in housing programs Expand investments in targeted interventions employing data and evidence-based solutions Refine programs to spur innovation and increase flexibility, and transparency with accountability

Preserve and increase key investments in housing programs Expand investments in targeted interventions employing data and evidence-based solutions Refine programs to spur innovation and increase flexibility, and transparency with accountability

Preserve and increase key investments in housing programs Expand investments in targeted interventions employing data and evidence-based solutions Refine programs to spur innovation and increase flexibility, and transparency with accountability

Preserve and increase key investments in housing programs Expand investments in targeted interventions employing data and evidence-based solutions Refine programs to spur innovation and increase flexibility, and transparency with accountability

Preserve and increase key investments in housing programs Expand investments in targeted interventions employing data and evidence-based solutions Refine programs to spur innovation and increase flexibility, and transparency with accountability

Preserve and increase key investments in housing programs Expand investments in targeted interventions employing data and evidence-based solutions Refine programs to spur innovation and increase flexibility, and transparency with accountability

Preserve and increase key investments in housing programs Expand investments in targeted interventions employing data and evidence-based solutions Refine programs to spur innovation and increase flexibility, and transparency with accountability

Preserve and increase key investments in housing programs Expand investments in targeted interventions employing data and evidence-based solutions Refine programs to spur innovation and increase flexibility, and transparency with accountability

Preserve and increase key investments in housing programs Expand investments in targeted interventions employing data and evidence-based solutions Refine programs to spur innovation and increase flexibility, and transparency with accountability