“Spring into Action” with NLIHC during a two-week mobilization effort between May 8 and May 19 to oppose deep budget cuts and urge Congress to invest in affordable housing and homelessness programs at the scale needed!
Be creative! Make a visual art piece, write a haiku or other short poem, record a video, or highlight data showing the impact of proposed cuts to educate congressional leaders about why affordable housing and homelessness programs are important to your community and how the proposed budget cuts would harm your family and neighbors.
Post your work on social media using the hashtag #CutsHurt and #SpringIntoAction between May 8 and May 19, and be sure to tag your member of Congress and @NLIHC!
NLIHC also has other resources you can use to start planning:
- Use NLIHC’s Legislative Action Center to host an email campaign to send a message to members of Congress. The tool allows advocates to customize the email template with a poem or other creative written message.
- Facing writer’s block? Use the prompts in NLIHC’s storytelling resource, “Storytelling Tips and Tricks,” to find a topic for your creative piece.
- If you have a multimedia piece you would like to share with your congressional office but cannot submit via the online form, please send it to [email protected].