*HUD PLAN Raises Rents on Poor, 26% on Ave., 8.3 Mill. Most Vulnerable, Homeless Risk
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The Trump administration’s latest attack on housing assistance would boost rents by an average 26 percent for millions of financially vulnerable Americans and increase the risk of homelessness, a Center on Budget and Policy Priorities analysis found.
Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Ben Carson claimed the “Make Affordable Housing Work Act,” which he announced on April 25, would create a path towards self-sufficiency for low-income Americans receiving housing assistance.
Under the plan, which still needs Congressional approval, people receiving housing assistance would see the percentage of their total income they are required to pay towards housing increase from 30 to 35 percent. It would also raise the minimum monthly rent on the 712,000 most financially vulnerable families from $50 to $150 per month, eliminate deductions for medical care and child care, and allow housing authorities to impose work requirements.
However, according to the Associated Press, the analysis shows the rent increase would put low-income residents in the country’s 100 largest metropolitan areas, even those with jobs, at risk of homelessness.
Wages in those areas have not grown at the rate of housing expenses, meaning the nearly 20 percent increase they would pay for rent under the plan is six times higher than the growth in hourly earnings, according to the AP.
READ MORE, https://thinkprogress.org/trump-administration-plan-would-raise-rents-on-poor-people-64ed95618e96/
MIAMI, FL - APRIL 12: U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson speaks to the media during a visit to the Liberty Square apartment complex on April 12, 2017 in Miami, Florida.
*IMPT. TO READ: IN DEPTH AP NEWS ARTICLE with the full Analysis of this HUD plan, linked in the above article.
https://apnews.com/d084d718ddda4fe087219825bad0fcbd
UPDATE: WXYZ, *Ben Carson Backs Off HUD Plan That Would Increase Rent, in Detroit at Press Conference*, June 7, 18
https://www.wxyz.com/news/new-proposal-would-increase-rent-by-20-percent-for-people-living-in-hud-housing
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support harsh increases and new rules. RE owners will gain and private for profit prisons with more inmate labor in 21st c. Workhouses/Debtors Prisons which existed in early America and elsewhere. ~ As boys, both Charles Dickens and Charlie Chaplin labored in workhouses in Victorian England because their families were in debt and impoverished.
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-New Records Cast Light on Life in Victorian Workhouses, 19 August 2010.
1601- the Poor Law marked the beginning of state-sponsored relief for the poor in Britain.
-Dinner time at a workhouse
The records recount instances of family breakdown, poverty, greed, violence and neglect of the poor. Previously unseen records shedding new light on life in Victorian workhouses have gone online for the first time. They include thousands of untouched 19th Century letters, memos and reports between the Cardiff and Llanfyllin Poor Law Unions and the boards regulating workhouses in London. The documents have been pieced together by volunteer groups, including several in Wales...https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-11015965
Carson is one fucked up dude. "In keeping with his Seventh-day Adventist faith Carson announced in 2014 his belief, "that the United States will play a big role" in the coming apocalypse. He went on to say, "I hope by that time I'm not around anymore."
In an interview with Katie Couric, Carson said that Jesus Christ came to Earth to redeem the world through his atoning sacrifice and that all people are sinners and need his redemption.
Another one who does not care about suffering here on earth. I just can't understand how people like this are allowed to hold such power in our nation.
that high level of responsibility. He lacks the qualifications, like others, clearly.
"Sinners, suffering, the apocalypse, redemption, Jesus.." wow.
Lol.
Ten years ago I recall Carson on programs like CSPAN when he was still surgeoning, receiving many work accolades and promoting his biography with education, career and background. He emphasized his rather poor but hard working upbringing, seemed quite 'worldly' and very much into wealth and status to me then. None of the 'after I'm gone' stuff, although he mentioned his religion.
(I can't follow much hard rt. news, it would do me in!).
- Carson's NoVa. home with paintings, honors and trophies has been featured much in the news.
He's been there for awhile now (probably around 20 years or so since he used to be on WRC and on WOL for a bit). I first heard him here in Philly back in 1989 when he was doing the graveyard shift on WWDB FM. He still talks about that story where he had moved to Bala Cynwyd, (just outside of Philly) with his then-young family back then... but was still commuting to Detroit where he earlier lived and was still hosting a show there as well. After about a month or so on the air here, he was fired. I have been following him around whereever he was broadcasting ever since.
Used to travel down to D.C. metro a lot and would listen to him down there on WRC when he had a show in between Oliver North and G. Gordon Liddy. 
He would be bombarded by the crazies who listened to those two. One of the stations here also used to pick up his syndicated feed for awhile as well (I think back in the late '90s/early 2000s).
I happened to be watching CSPAN early morning one time back in 2007 and saw him when CSPAN used to do simulcasts of political talk hosts and that's how I found out he was on XM radio. I immediately subscribed (they eventually became SiriusXM) and have continued to listen to him on that ever since! Next year will be 30 years. Yikes!
