🚀 go-pugleaf

"Jim Bianchi" <jimbo@sonic.net> wrote in message
news:slrnbh1c0c.2tk.jimbo@bolt.sonic.net...
> On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 00:50:22 +0000 (UTC), Anonymous Sender
> <anonymous@remailer.metacolo.com> wrote:
> >More than 26,000 poor in California could lose housing help, group says.
> >By Andy Furillo -- Bee Staff Writer
> >Published 2:15 a.m. PDT Saturday, July 12, 2003
> >An estimated 184,000 people across the country face losing their federal
> >housing subsidies as a result of a budgeting miscalculation by the Bush
> >administration, according to a report released Friday in Washington by an
> >advocacy group for the poor. The reduction would be unprecedented in the
> >29-year history of the Section 8 housing subsidy program, said the report
> >by the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities.
> >
> >"For many of these people, they won't be able to make ends meet," said
Will
> >Fischer, a low-income housing policy analyst for the center and a
co-author
> >of the report. "For the elderly and disabled folks who make up 40 percent
> >of the caseload, it means they won't be able to live independently. It
> >means they will have to move into an institutional setting or be at risk
of
> >homelessness."
> >
> >More than 26,000 Californians on Section 8 would lose their subsidies as
a
> >result of the shortfall, according to the CBPP. No figures were available
> >for the Sacramento region.
> >
> >==
> >
> >Great.  Free housing for drug addicts, migrant workers, and the nigra.
>
> I take exception to your closing comments, sir. I am on Section 8
> housing relief, as are 43 others in the apt complex in which I live. I am
> disabled and elderly both, but I am not a drug addict, a migrant worker,
or
> a nigra. Neither is anyone else in this complex. I submit that those who
fit
> the first two categories you mention are not those who'll be affected by a
> loss of these subsidies. I CANNOT work. I've tried, and it is impossible.
I
> can move around sufficiently that I am able to live independently, but
there
> is NO WAY I can afford to live without the HUD rent subsidy. What should I
> do?
>

People like you are who the system is designed for, as are most of those
that need to use the system.  It is similar to hearing stories about "bad"
cops.  It makes people think there is little else other than that, which is
not the case.


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