Legislative Breakfasts 2009 Budget Season - Report
On Tuesday April 28th Episcopal City Mission (ECM) co-hosted a legislative breakfast with Homes for Families (HFF) and the Housing Assistance Corporation of Cape Cod (HAC). For the last two years ECM has funded HFF through the Burgess Urban Fund. HFF’s mission is to advocate on behalf of homeless families and help formerly homeless persons become leaders in the movement to end homelessness in Massachusetts. Each spring during the state’s budget cycle HFF hosts a series of breakfasts across the Commonwealth addressing issues of homelessness and affordable housing. Until this year they had not hosted a breakfast on Cape Cod due to a lack of relationship with an organization on the Cape. ECM was able to bring HFF together with HAC and assisted these two agencies in planning the first annual legislative breakfast on the Cape.
Church of the Holy Spirit, Orleans hosted the event and ECM was glad to see a great turnout of Episcopalians from Holy Spirit and several surrounding communities. Senator Robert O’Leary, who represents the lower Cape, attended and shared his thoughts on affordable housing on Cape Cod. Due to the current economic crisis most of the Cape’s Representatives were unable to attend the breakfasts, but all expressed great interest in learning more about the work happening in their region, and in the state, around ending homelessness.
Posted by Lucena Daley on Wednesday, March 11, 2009