PEOPLE ACTING TOGETHER IN HOWARD

PATH - Victories

PATH Victories:

Heathcare

Over 300 PATH leaders went door-to-door and spoke to 4,380 people face-to-face to help those going without health care get free or affordable coverage. We found 605 people going without healthcare and helped them to get the care they needed through the Healthy Howard Plan and other programs run by the state and federal government.

Affordable Housing:

Passed legislation to protect mobile home owners: Mobile home parks are some of the last affordable housing in Howard County and in Maryland. Home owners own their homes but not the land under them, so when a park closes they can lose everything. PATH passed a bill requiring park owners to compensate home owners with 10 months of lot rent, or about $5000 to $6000 in today's market. This will protect the 14,000 plus mobile home park residents in Maryland living in parks with at least 39 units.
Won $500,000 to start a "Housing Initiative Fund" in 2009
Kept legislation from being passed in the Maryland General Assembly that would have severely limited the amount of compensation a mobile home owner could receive for moving expenses.

Transporation:

Reduced bus wait time from 60 to 30 minutes on buses throughout Howard County
Worked with County Executive to keep commuter bus service from Columbia to Baltimore from being cut.

Victories in Other IAF Affiliates

Thousands of owner-occupied affordable Nehemiah Homes built in Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington, DC. These homes have been virtually foreclosure-proof in the most recent economic downturn.
Passage of the first Living Wage in Baltimore in 1992. This has been copied in over 95 counties and cities since then.
Passage of the first Statewide Universal Health Care in Massachusetts in 2006.
$144 Million for Affordable Housing in Montgomery County, MD.