U.S. (Bush) Seeks Cuts in Housing Aid to Urban Poor

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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

George W. Bush. Fighting to create more Homeless. "Can't they just become Soylent Green to feed the Middle Class? Why do the poor hate America?" -Smirk.

[SpiralHawk]

1. I mean, what the Hell, the Bush family is doing just fine

These other people are just going to have to pull themselves up by the bootstraps.

We can't be wasting a lot of energy on liberal compassion. What the Urban Poor need is 4 more years of Kickass Konservative Kompassion.

"Our country puts $1 billion a year up to help feed the hungry. And we're by far the most generous nation in the world when it comes to that, and I'm proud to report that. This isn't a contest of who's the most generous. I'm just telling you as an aside. We're generous. We shouldn't be bragging about it. But we are. We're very generous."
- George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., July 16, 2003

[Moderator]

2. Duplicate

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