Critics blast Bush on proposed housing cuts

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http://www.dailysouthtown.com/southtown/dsindex/11-ds3.htm

CHA says it can still finish $1.5 billion public housing overhaul even if Hope VI funds are cut

Tuesday, November 11, 2003

By John Dobberstein
Staff writer

U.S. lawmakers and fair-housing advocates criticized the Bush administration Monday for proposing to eliminate hundreds of millions of dollars to rebuild public housing while sending $87 billion in aid to Iraq.

The president has asked Congress to "zero out" funding in the coming budget year for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's Hope VI program.

Eliminating the program would wipe out millions of dollars that the Chicago Housing Authority would use to finish its 10-year, $1.5 billion "Plan for Transformation."

But the CHA said Monday it can complete the plan without the funding because of private grants and $25 million in additional funding it secured from the city.

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[benfranklin1776]

1. Sickening but oh so typical of these stooges.

Make the least fortunate in America suffer while lining the pockets of Halliburton et. al

[PurityOfEssence]

2. If we allow them to put crosses on 'em, do you think they'll reconsider?

I'm sure they can scrape up a few dollars for the poor as long as they can cram some god down their throats in the process.

[DuctapeFatwa]

3. To put this in perspective

Even if they doubled the funding, refurbished all the units, and built a new unit for every one they refurbished, the number of units compared to need would still be so small that this whole issue is kind of like those arguments about raising the minimum wage 2 or 3 dollars when the average apartment costs almost 4 times the minimum wage.

In other words, like the rest of the social service structure in the US, it is so inadequate that whether it is refurbished, funded, or eliminated is irrelevant.

[jpgray]

5. To those who may get the housing, I doubt it is irrelevant. (nt)

[DuctapeFatwa]

6. That is correct. I mean it is irrelevant to the population as a whole

Both those who need housing, and those whose best interests and safety are not well served by the presence of rapidly expanding masses of desperate people who can no longer afford the free market value of housing.

[jonoboy]

4. never let the poor stand in the way of corporate welfare

[0007]

7. and I can show you many people who will vote for junior .......

that live in the low-income housing run by the housing authorities.

[maxsolomon]

8. well now he's fucking with my job

i am an architect working on hope 6 projects in seattle.

maybe this is what it will take for my parents to vote democratic again, the president cutting their son's job out of the budget.

doubt it.