Affordable housing & health insurance protests
08 04 08 - 11:53
P.E.A.C.E. was issuing fighting words Monday night.
Five hundred people from the inter-faith organization filled Calvary United Methodist Church in Lake Worth to call for affordable housing for the working poor and insurance for the quarter of a million Palm Beach County residents who do not have health insurance.
"From owning a home to rentals, people just can't afford it", says Bishop Randy Hightower of the Pentecostal Church of God in Christ.
Hightower says the housing crunch afflicting the upper middle class has had a ripple effect on the lower middle class who have seen rents go up.
But the greater concern is health care...
"We have 226,000 people in the County who are uninsured" said Fr. John D'Mello.
Dwight Chenette, the CEO of the Health Care District pledged to push the state to raise the accepted income level for people who have to go without health insurance because their incomes are slightly too high.