Wrecking Section 8

Wrecking Section 8

<>While  Many have been fixated with Bill Cosby's remarks- HUD Secretary, BUSH  FLUNKEY, Alphonso Jackson's remarks and actions have been Ignored: "I do not believe being poor is a condition; it is a state of mind ." [right]
The Bush administration hasput America's most widely-used public housing  program, Section 8, in jeopardy. As the president  lobbies tirelessly  to make his costly tax cuts for the wealthy permanent, the supposedly "compassionate conservative"  White House"is changing the nation's largest program of housing assistanceso that, for the  first time,the government no longer is promising to pay the full  cost of rent vouchers that help nearly 2million poor families." 

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Affordable Housing in Crisis

Cuts in federal housing subsidies for the poor place tenants insome cities at risk of losing subsidized housing,and financial institutions  are  beginning toexpress doubts about continuing to  participate in the  kindsof development projects that have built much of  the nation's affordable housing. [more]

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OUTCRY FROM public housing agencies and governors across the country persuaded  the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development last weekto  ease the pain of a rulechangethat  threatened toforce hundreds of poor families off federal rent  assistance. But thehelp offeredso  far applies only halfa Band-Aid to theproblem of how agencies will maintain their rental vouchers this  year  while the Bush administration tries to curb Section 8 costs. The  pain, apparently, is merely postponed.  [more]

SEE the Center for American Progress for a compete report  [more]