Topeka ? Catholic leaders and Gov. Kathleen Sebelius today joined in calls for increased efforts to produce affordable housing in Kansas.

“It’s a matter of human dignity,” Archbishop James Keleher of Kansas City, Kan., said.

Keleher said Kansas needed a 10-year comprehensive affordable housing plan similar to the state’s 10-year transportation plan.

The Kansas Catholic Conference issued a report on the lack of housing, called “Nowhere to Lay His Head.”

Sebelius praised the conference for raising the visibility of the issue. She called on the Legislature to adopt a bill that would allow the Kansas Development Finance Authority to issue mortgage revenue bonds for low- and moderate-income first-time homebuyers.

The Catholic Conference report on housing is available at www.kscathconf.org.

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