Tying Nashville Together

Sign the TNT Healthcare Petition
to Improve Home and Community
Based Services Online

Healthcare Petition Text

As a community of caring people and persons of faith, TNT calls upon state & local leaders to make changes to benefit the many families who need and depend upon home and community based care. By improving and adding more services and programs, persons needing care can choose home care thus permitting them to live in their home and neighborhood among family and friends.

We who sign this petition and support this action call upon state & local leaders to join us in caring for those who need and could benefit from home and community based care:

1. We support increasing state funds from the present budgeted $5 million to fund the Options Program which will permit more people to receive care without having to sign away their property and estate as a condition of receiving care.

2. We call upon leaders to expand the range of choices people have when they face choosing between a nursing home and home care. We call for an improved, independent evaluation to determine the eligibility of persons in need, thus permitting more people to choose home care.

3. We call for a freedom of choice document and counseling which would inform and communicate to those who are eligible that they have the option of selecting home based health care rather than nursing home care. This would permit more persons to choose home care, thus making use of the unused openings for care that now go unfilled.

4. We call upon TNT to do research, provide education and enter into negotiations with insurance companies to provide families lower cost long term care insurance coverage.

Affordable Housing Action Team Resolution

RESOLUTION: ENDORSEMENT OF BARNES FUND FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING

Affordable housing remains an important, unmet need for Nashvillians, especially those earning less than 30% of median family income (about $30,000 a year and below for a family of four). Almost all Nashville families at this income level spend more than 30% of their income on housing, which means they are "cost-burdened." Given the need for affordable housing for these families, TNT endorses adoption and permanent funding of the proposed Barnes Fund for Affordable Housing, a housing trust fund to enable new housing options for low- and extremely-low-income Nashvillians.

RESOLUTION: TENANTS ASSOCIATION

This resolution proposes that a tenant organization be created for Nashville-Davidson County that would be comprised of renters of the public and private markets. Each individual renter would be a part of a chapter, or smaller group of the association at large for each complex, development or area. The primary objectives this association
plans to address are:

· Landlords being held more accountable to government housing-regulations, and greater transparency of landlords’ renting practices.

· Renters gaining an understanding of their rights as renters in Nashville-Davidson County.

· Providing legal consultation and counseling of tenant members to further educate renters of rights.

· Training a political base of people with a common interest of advocating for affordable rental units.

· Building community among tenants.

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