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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? 

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