You can provide testimony and inform Senate Finance and Assembly Ways and Means on why housing is an essential part of the New York State Budget. Budget hearings will be held on January 29, 2009 in Hearing Room C of the Legislative Office Building. To testify in Albany, contact Clinton Freeman, 518-455-5491 and limit your remarks to 10 minutes. Bring 40 copies to Albany. If you cannot travel to Albany you may send 10 copies of your remarks to: A. Herman D. Farrell, Rm 923 LOB, Albany, NY 12248 within 5 days of the hearing