US Senator Scott Brown, a Massachusetts Republican, is urging President Obama and congressional leaders from both parties in a letter to reconsider spending priorities at the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Brown wrote that homelessness in the Bay State and across the nation is up due to the foreclosure crisis, and noted that families with children are the fastest-growing segment of new homeless.

“HUD Programs provide rental assistance for low income citizens and other homelessness programs,” Brown wrote. “These rental programs are vital to Massachusetts and should be protected at a time when the Massachusetts unemployment rate is about eight percent.”

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