Bushists Seeks Cuts in Housing Aid to Urban Poor

[BurtWorm]

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/22/nyregion/22housing.html?hp=&pagewanted=print&position=

September 22, 2004
U.S. Seeks Cuts in Housing Aid to Urban Poor
By DAVID W. CHEN

he 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.

[liberal_in_GA]

1. Just like that bumper sticker says...

Bush/Cheney '04: EAT THE POOR

What a wonderful "Christian" Shrub is...
:eyes: :puke: :mad:

[Cha]

2. So they can pay more money to fucking

haliburton, et al?

Now if only those poor would get the hell out and vote against the boot that is trying to knock them out of their homes!!

[Supersedeas]

3. tax breaks for the reeeich..war for the poor-enlist today for Iraq housing

[DeepModem Mom]

4. Read this from the article about hitting NY, Northeast; aiding Red States

....The fair market rent issue is the latest of several proposed cuts in federal programs that would disproportionately affect New York and the Northeast, including an overall cut to the Section 8 budget - later restored for New York City - and a new financing system for public housing developments.

The rent drop in New York also echoes the projected drop in Medicare payments to the city's hospitals, under new national boundaries drawn up by the White House Office of Management and Budget, and recommended for all federal agencies. Those new boundaries would add Bergen, Passaic and Hudson Counties, where costs are lower, to New York City, where costs are higher, thereby lowering the city's average portion.

This being a presidential year, some housing groups have noted that many predominantly Democratic states, including New York and Massachusetts, fare poorly under these new proposals, while Republican states, like Texas and Georgia, tend to benefit....

[BurtWorm]

5. This is how the GOP thanks NYC for squelching protest week

Fuck you, GOP. Fuck you very much.