So grateful for everyone's participation

Hello from Chicago!

Here is the great piece on housing that Anita worked to get published: https://www.fool.com/the-ascent/personal-finance/articles/as-evictions-rise-nationwide-these-people-are-doing-something-about-it/?utm_term=social_share

Hey y’all from Georgia!

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Excited to join this morning!

Welcome Jack, Misty, Oscar!

Good morning from Dena’ina lands in Alaska!

Good morning from Beaumont, California

Hi everyone, from Baltimore, MD, former Piscataway (and other groups) land

Good afternoon!

So glad everyone's here for the important conversations. Welcome!

Hello everyone, Mary Domingo from Wisconsin

Thank you for being here Mr. Tegeler!

Good Morning everyone from Austin, Texas

Joining you all from Kickapoii lands here in Fort Wayne, Indiana!

Morning everyone from Boise!

For more information about fair housing, read more here: https://results.org/blog/housing-justice-is-racial-justice/. More information about PRRAC here: https://www.prrac.org/vision/.

Good afternoon everyone!

https://www.housingmobility.org/press-release-mobility-works-praises-inclusion-of-25-million-for-housing-mobility-services-in-bipartisan-fy-2022-omnibus-spending-bill-3-17-22/

http://www.prrac.org/pdf/housing-choice-voucher-reform-agenda.pdf

HUD = Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Thank you for being here, Phil. I'm getting a few points from your presentation that I'd like to share with others.

How soon will these benefits become available on the ground?

House can I talk to landlord friends to encourage them to rent to section 8 tenants?

Who will qualify? How about low income single males?

In FL we have a large concentration of charter schools finding by the state further taking away funds for public schools

http://www.prrac.org/pdf/HousingLocationSchools2018.pdf

For New Jersey, how do the Mt. Laurel Decisions affect NJ housing?

http://www.prrac.org/pdf/Disrupting_the_Reciprocal_Relationship_JCHS_chapter.pdf

When my husband was on our local planning commission, I was fortunate to go to a California state conference for planning commissioners, and the focus was on economically-integration for mixed-use development, near public-transportation, retail, and parks. My question is this: wouldn’t federally-incentivized pilot programs to develop better economically-integrated housing areas?

school-diversity.org

Will these benefits and programs address gentrification and housing displacement?

redistricting has created a huge disparity in the quality of education certain areas are receiving

So. California has now restricted housing vouchers to the San Bernadino area where there is no real access to opportunities.

How well do children living in poverty cope with the peer pressure when attending higher opportunity schools. If they can't afford the life style, do they still experience segregation?

How should those working in immigration policy with asylum seekers and refugees be thinking about the housing crisis?

What do we say to MOC in rural areas about vouchers, housing?

There is similar civil rights issues in rural areas

I’ve seen a number of articles about “universal rent.” What are your thoughts about vouchers versus universal rent?

Leslye, I agree with you

100%

ptegeler@prrac.org

Perhaps we need to have a separate discussion on rural area housing to address their needs

Thanks so much for being with us, Phil. and for your critical work.

Yes I feel we should be discussing rural poverty as well as all people who face disparity.

For those who also want to follow up with me on some of the issues we discussed today, you can reach out to me at msantos@results.org.

Yes Yvonne Montoya, I think it is a separate discussion because while the issues in rural areas are indeed civil rights issues, they are generally not racial issues. At the same time, poor people in rural areas have the same issues of poverty as people in the city. Poverty is poverty, but unfortunately we have systems that impact the two groups differently.

What do we say to people who say that public spending increases inflation?

@Randy our latest blogpost helps address this -- in particular, the minimal impact of extending the CTC on inflation: https://results.org/blog/the-latest-from-capitol-hill-on-recovery-package/. And more in this CBPP piece: https://www.cbpp.org/blog/inflation-report-underscores-urgency-to-extend-child-tax-credit-expansion

Wow!!!!!

Welcome Peter!

On the conversation about rural poverty, a reminder that rural communities are more diverse than often portrayed in the media. Here is a NETWORK report and a great panel from a few years back that dives into this more: https://networklobby.org/raisingruralvoices/.

And thank you Phil for joining us, and great to have you on Peter!

Yes @meredith—rural areas are amazingly diverse

So offices on the hill are receiving constituents in person now, "post-COVID 19?"

Are Peter's stats for GFATM-supported programs, of overall for world?

I agree that rural areas are quite diverse, unfortunately it's not viewed that way so thank you Meredith for the Network Report. 👍

@yvonne, delores, janet, I'd love to have an offline discussion about rural poverty and the intersection with housing. Please feel free to reach out to me directly and happy to take the conversation offline.

Roger, visitors are able to meet in congressional offices in more limited and controlled ways now, but I'll wait to see if others who live in Washington, DC (I'm in Indiana) have any more specific information on how it's working these days.

@ Michael—you can include me as well

Will do Michael.

please post questions in the chat!

I can’ remember — do we know when the replenishment conference is happening?

late September or early October.

Will the $18 billion help us also prepare for future pandemics?

If memory serves, the Trump administration did not send a delegation to make a pledge at the last conference in France. The US Congress sent a delegation of MOCs to make it's pledge. Those MOCs might be especially strong international advocates.

Will the Global Fund support current efforts to get Congress to allocate any money to global COVID vaccinations

Is it likely that there will be an opportunity for supportive MoCs to speak at the Replenishment Conference? Or should we try to get them to make statements in the media (which seems like a tough ask in contentious election year)?

Is the Global Fund supporting any efforts to increase access to PrEP around the world?

Is there anything we can do to get other countries on board to help with the global fund that currently are not?

Dr Paul Farmer set the bar Health Care Equity. Let’s honor this great doctor by demanding EQUITY

We have heard recently about the reversal in progress on TB. Are you seeing such severe reversals in the other diseases? Does the global fund have a plan to “catch up” on TB given how so many TB resources were redirected to covid-19?

Thank you!!

Do you have any concern about what happens with the funding for the third year of funding, and what could happen if Democrats lose control of Congress?

Thank you!

Thank You so much for this meeting.Great information!!

Thank you so much Peter!

A quick chime-in re DC lobbying -- it is still very limited and I think most/all visitors have to be escorted by Congressional staff. But have heard from staffers that they are getting people coming in for meetings. Overall there is a phased reopening, a bit more here: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/23/us/politics/capitol-reopening-tourists.html?unlocked_article_code=AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACEIPuomT1JKd6J17Vw1cRCfTTMQmqxCdw_PIxftm3iWka3DODmwZiPkORJCH_0bRZKF4INA6xzWHQ9sEKrIoXPF0z-lQelBqVhOpuYef3pQZJiF_4aSCYlQL5bOfF7Yp7W2tKWCjNOZ0wLD44U6IbWDtCqfA1nR2IxJip5dkaQmo0XYXlq7GG-Ej2tN-3PgiFYk6EWlbHFSCuPLrDxh_PtiUPFqLukRtBbYvCXyElsWc6rkAbAxUFVvGKXt66mo649lYU8gFaOe9d1VzPZqj3shCTzBgP4yrBJYuRoTLlr4MsbDFrRGEysXe1OwhGWbrbqerhg-wk3Q7U0N-&smid=url-share (gift link) and also here https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/14/politics/us-capitol-reopening-covid/index.html.

Are we not doing a push/letter on education and GPE in particular?

Why is this info in blog ? Instead of actions

Many offices have forms instead of taking letters. They are sometimes hard to figure out. How do we negotiate them?

https://results.org/blog/fy23-appropriations-tell-congress-to-fund-the-fight-against-poverty/

Can you please clarify the difference between Maternal Child Health and our Nutrition ask?

What if your MOC is on appropriations will they accept out request

Say it isn’t so, John!!

The scorecard has been really helpful in making connections to MoC past decisions to make requests!

So sorry to hear this!

😱😱😱

Nooooooooooo

To share a farewell for John: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSciFO1vsfvLc1kWdSBZkoJLQ41GqKY2h1ojHtA4jJ1Kd7fTAQ/viewform

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Wishing John the best!

Don’t let him leave! Someone stop him!!

Oh Wow... Jon, we will definitely miss you! Best wishes in your new endeavors.

Again, to share a farewell message for John: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSciFO1vsfvLc1kWdSBZkoJLQ41GqKY2h1ojHtA4jJ1Kd7fTAQ/viewform

is that incliding you

There were eight RESULTS Houston folks who joined virtually. We were not together .... yet

Dear John, thank you for all your work with us, especially the briefings at the National Conferences before we headed to the Hill! Best Wishes, Peter

14 or 15 plan to be at our local Zoom following this. No idea who is on now.

Should we also birddog the candidates for Congress & Senate?

https://results.org/conference/advocacy-day/.

what is the current guidance re: sending letters to Congress? is mail, email, or facing best?

*faxing

Now that most"letters" to MoC's are emails, what do you suggest for a letter-writing meeting? Have everyone bring thief laptops? what about people who don's have one?

via their website is good, hand-carrying is still good. emailing works too.

You can have folks bring laptops, but hand-writing will stand out if you decide to do that

typing and printing to hand deliver when you can gets you a couple of ways to share letters

Domestic-global question: do we have any specific material to help us get both keep domestic Covid funding and expand global access? I’m concerned that there are discussions about moving global funding to domestic funding after those funds were cut.

There was an action set out to all Senate point people on Friday on global covid funding. We need all Senate point people to take that action to protect global covid funding in the supplemental currently being considered.

Our group used to send hand-written letters to the MoCs LOCAL offices… it gets our names out to them, they forward to DC and/or show to MoCs when the Congress is on recess. We know that Congress will be on recess during the month of April, so letters sent to local offices this month will likely reach the MoCs when they are not in DC buried in committee meetings!

There will be a similar action broadcasted on Monday.

Wonderful enrollment practice, Sarah and Jos.

Great job!!

that was good!

Excellent job!

Very well done. Great objections Jos!

Great job Sarah and Jos!

Thank you for the presentations, great work!

Woo hoo Karen!

Some responses on prior appropriations questions: The sign-on letter on Maternal and child health and nutrition includes an overall ask on maternal and child health ($1.1B) and within that $300M for nutrition. If members of Congress as you to fill out a specific request form on appropriations, you can be in touch with grassroots impact staff or our policy staff and we can support you if it's complicated.

Oops, I meant, Woo Hoo Karyne!!

Confidence is building . . . !!!

Yes Karyne is absolutely fantastic and can support you with your outreach endeavors!

Karyne is awesome💜

Karyne Bury - kbury@results.org

In looking at the first poll, the question was how many people are with you? So groups of 2 would answer !. I think you should reword the question.

Happy Spring everyone!!

Thank you!

Thank you Everyone!

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Bye, everyone! See you next month!

THanks! Go Eloise - LTE in today's paper!

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Have a great month of advocacy!

Have a wonderful weekend, all!