Florida Senate - 2015                                    SM 1426
       
       
        
       By Senator Abruzzo
       
       
       
       
       
       25-00319A-15                                          20151426__
    1                           Senate Memorial                         
    2         A memorial to the Congress of the United States,
    3         urging Congress to restore and provide adequate
    4         funding for the Supportive Housing for the Elderly
    5         Program.
    6  
    7         WHEREAS, the senior population nationwide increased
    8  dramatically from 3.1 million in 1900 to 41.4 million in 2011,
    9  and, by 2030, is projected to increase to 70 million, and
   10         WHEREAS, more than 50 percent of the senior population
   11  nationwide resides in nine states, including second-ranked
   12  Florida, which, in 2011, had a senior population of 3.4 million,
   13  and
   14         WHEREAS, interest rates for personal savings accounts have
   15  dropped to less than one-half of 1 percent, pension and health
   16  care payments for retirees are decreasing, and the value and
   17  security of investments in 401(k) retirement savings accounts
   18  and stocks have dramatically decreased, and
   19         WHEREAS, federal funding for low-cost housing for seniors
   20  has been cut drastically, with no new construction funded in
   21  2012, and
   22         WHEREAS, thousands of low-income seniors are in immediate,
   23  desperate need for low-cost housing, NOW, THEREFORE,
   24  
   25  Be It Resolved by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   27         That the Congress of the United States is urged to assist
   28  our nation’s low-income seniors by restoring and adequately
   29  funding the Supportive Housing for the Elderly Program.
   30         BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this memorial be
   31  dispatched to the President of the United States, to the
   32  President of the United States Senate, to the Speaker of the
   33  United States House of Representatives, and to each member of
   34  the Florida delegation to the United States Congress.