U.S. Seeks Cuts in Housing Aid to Urban Poor

[GAspnes]

The Bush administration has proposed reducing the value of subsidized-housing vouchers given to poor residents in New York City next year, with even bigger cuts planned for some urban areas in New England. The proposal is based on a disputed new formula that averages higher rents in big cities with those of suburban areas, which tend to have lower costs.

The proposals could have a "significantly detrimental impact" in some areas by forcing poor families to pay hundreds of extra dollars per month in rent, according to United States Representative Christopher Shays, a Connecticut Republican. That extra burden could be too much for thousands of tenants, "potentially leaving them homeless," Mr. Shays wrote in a recent letter to the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

The changes would affect most of the 1.9 million families who participate in the Section 8 program, the government's primary housing program for the poor, including 110,000 in New York City. People in the program receive vouchers to help them rent private apartments from landlords who agree to participate.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/22/nyregion/22housing.html?hp

[LiberalVoice]

1. What else is new?

:shrug:

[Moderator]

2. Duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x844728

[UdoKier]

3. Why, of course!

Those "nigras" living in subsidized housing in the cities will vote democrat anyway. It's a win-win proposition for them. Not only that, it looks by the way this is written that the "white trash" who get subsidized housing in rural areas & the burbs will NOT lose subsidies. NICE! and they're more likely to vote repuke!

Of course we don't see them cutting farm subsidies, though do we. (You know, the ones that are no longer keeping food costs reasonable at ALL?)