No Vouchers For Skid Row

[Lost in CT]

http://www.imdb.com/news/ni0695709/

Thousands of skid-row residents living in one-room facilities in apartments and hotels are being turned down for the $40 converter-box vouchers under a provision of the voucher program that classifies such facilities as business addresses, thereby making them ineligible, the Los Angeles Times disclosed today (Monday). Moreover, Bart Forbes, a spokesman for the Commerce Department's National Telecommunications and Information Administration, said that group homes and housing provided by nonprofit groups are also excluded, since the vouchers can only be issued to "households" as the word is defined by the Census Bureau. Forbes explained: "It was an oversight in the way the law was written. ...We're constrained by the law."


Bart Forbes needs to find a way to fix this... this is simply an attack on the responsible poor by a heartless and brain dead federal bureaucracy.