Presbyterians for a Better Georgia

Housing and Healthcare bills being followed

  • Support $50 M add in Governor’s budget to address street homelessness through flexible local grants.
  • Support $9.3 M add to DBHDD Budget for 404 new Georgia Housing Voucher Program vouchers to provide supportive housing to chronically homeless people with severe mental illness.
  • Support HB 689 to provide flexible local grants for short term emergency rental assistance to keep working families stably housed.
  • Oppose HB 295 that would pressure local governments to arrest people for being homeless.
  • Oppose HB 61 that would end the right of eviction for thousands of families living long term in extended stay hotels and subject them to immediate lockout and arrest.
  • Support SB 428 that would provide a waiver for Medicaid coverage for mental health services for vulnerable Georgians.
  • Support SB 131 that would help enforce Georgia’s mental health parity laws.