HUD Proposal hits children the hardest
"After 10 years as a home-health aide, Karon Taylor earns just $11 an hour. She has a teenage daughter, and she’s also raising two grandchildren.
So she has a hard time seeing how the federal government could improve her economic prospects by raising her rent.
“I’m a working mom, and I still sometimes have to go to the food pantry,” said Taylor, who lives in a federally subsidized townhouse on the East Side.
Her family is among more than 4 million low-income households across the United States who could see their rents rise significantly under a proposal by U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson, who says that increasing rents and work requirements is a way to boost self-sufficiency.
“It would make people who are very vulnerable, and who are struggling on the edges in our society, that much more precarious,” said Bill Faith, executive director of the Coalition on Homelessness and Housing in Ohio. “To make their lives less stable is an outrage.”
The center estimates that rents for more than 400,000 people in Ohio — one of 10 states facing the biggest percentage increases in rents — would jump by an average of 23 percent, or $730 per year, to $3,910. In the Columbus area, the projected annual increase is about $740, or 22.3 percent.
http://www.dispatch.com/news/20180607/working-poor-would-pay-more-rent-under-hud-proposal
*********** Can someone please explain to Carson and the Republicans that raising poor people's rents doesn't magically create better paying jobs for them to take advantage of? Hopefully Congress laughs this one out of reality.