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Indianapolis has a severe shortage of housing for our low and moderate income residents. For many working families, seniors and others, a safe and decent place to live remains out of reach. A minimum wage employee would have to work 101 hours a week to be able to afford a fair market rent, two bedroom apartment in our city.
The Marion County Housing Trust Fund was established in 2000 by the Indiana General Assembly to make housing affordable to low and moderate income families and individuals. While the Marion County Housing Trust Fund has relied in recent years upon discretionary funding to help stabilize low and moderate income residents, a trust fund requires at least one dedicated revenue source to be fully effective. The time is now to find a reliable source of revenue for the Marion County Housing Trust Fund, to assist working families and other neighbors and at the same time benefit the whole community.
We invite you to join the Friends of the Housing Trust Fund alliance to help put “A Home Within Reach” for many of our neighbors. The Friends of the Housing Trust Fund will encourage elected officials in our community to identify resources that could assist local efforts to make existing rental housing units more affordable to those on fixed or meager incomes.
Some ways that a Friend can help support the Housing Trust Fund include:
- Contacting your City-County Councilor; to find out who your Councilor is, click here
- Attending public meetings on behalf of the Friends of the Housing Trust Fund
- Making presentations at local events
- Writing a letter to the editor
- Recruiting new Friends of the Housing Trust Fund
- Lending your name as a Friend of the Housing Trust Fund
As a Friend of the Housing Trust Fund, you will also receive regular email updates from the Coalition for Homelessness Intervention and Prevention of Greater Indianapolis, the lead agency organizing the Friends of the Housing Trust Fund
