{"id":43029,"date":"2025-04-29T23:17:14","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T23:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/housing-bill-tracking-testimony-newspaper-community-letters-and-civil-beat-or-national-article-response\/"},"modified":"2025-04-29T23:17:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T23:17:14","slug":"housing-bill-tracking-testimony-newspaper-community-letters-and-civil-beat-or-national-article-response","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/housing-bill-tracking-testimony-newspaper-community-letters-and-civil-beat-or-national-article-response\/","title":{"rendered":"Housing Bill Tracking &#038; Testimony, Newspaper Community Letters, and Civil Beat or National Article Response"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Housing Bill Tracking &amp; Testimony (10% total)<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>What you need to do:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Go to the Hawaii State Legislature website. <\/li>\n<li><strong>Find two housing-related bills<\/strong> (for example: bills about affordable housing, tenant protections, homelessness, etc.).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Track each bill<\/strong>: meaning you will copy down:\n<ul>\n<li> The <strong>bill number<\/strong> (example: HB1492 or SB2055),<\/li>\n<li> A <strong>short description<\/strong> of what the bill is about (1\u20132 sentences is enough).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Then:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Write a short testimony for each bill<\/strong>.\n<ul>\n<li> Say whether you <strong>support or oppose<\/strong> the bill and explain <strong>why<\/strong> (one short paragraph is enough for each testimony).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr>\n<h3>2. <strong>Newspaper Community Letters Regarding Housing Issues (10% total)<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>What you need to do:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Find a <strong>recent newspaper article<\/strong> about a <strong>housing issue<\/strong> (for example: homelessness, affordable housing shortage, rising rent prices, evictions, etc.).<\/li>\n<li> Based on the article, you have two choices:\n<ul>\n<li> Write <strong>two short opinion letters<\/strong> (each <strong>150 words or less<\/strong>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr>\n<h3>3. <strong>Civil Beat or National Newspaper Response on Affordable Housing Policy<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>What you need to do:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Find an article from <strong>Civil Beat<\/strong> (<a>civilbeat.org<\/a>) or a <strong>national newspaper<\/strong> (like the New York Times, Washington Post, etc.) that talks about <strong>affordable housing public policy<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Write a short response paragraph<\/strong> giving your opinion about the article.<br \/>(It doesn&#8217;t need to be super formal \u2014 just what you think or feel after reading the article.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Housing Bill Tracking &amp; Testimony (10% total) What you need to do: Go to the Hawaii State Legislature website. Find two housing-related bills (for example: bills about affordable housing, tenant protections, homelessness, etc.). Track each bill: meaning you will copy down: The bill number (example: HB1492 or SB2055), A short description of what the bill [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[36],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/43029"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/43029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=43029"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=43029"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=43029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}