Posted on 05/01/2016 2:30:02 PM PDT by MaxistheBest
More than 850 families have transitioned out of public housing in Delaware since the state began limiting the length of time residents are eligible to receive housing subsidies, and hundreds more have become homeowners.
“Before we started Moving to Work, we had people who were on their third or fourth generation of the same family who were at the same site,” Rebecca Kauffman, social service senior administrator at the Delaware Housing Authority’s Moving to Work program, told The Daily Caller News Foundation.
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The contrast with the rest of the federal public housing program is vivid. The average resident currently receiving a Section 8 voucher in the U.S. has been doing so for nine years, according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
In some places, the average stay is much longer. New York City residents on vouchers have received help for an average of 18 years. Nationwide, federal housing subsidies cost taxpayers more than $50 billion annually.
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But little has changed since the original 1996 public housing reform. Rep. John Carney, a Delaware Democrat, introduced a bill last summer to expand the number of Moving to Work housing authorities from 39 to 60, but the measure never reached the floor of the Republican-controlled House of Representatives.
Kauffman’s office receives a couple calls a month from other housing authorities hoping to try a similar program, but they worry about pushback from local poverty and housing groups and don’t have the authority to experiment with time limits.
“I do think it should be the wave of the future, just like welfare reform has been,” Kauffman said. “And that’s really how the housing authorities are going to have to do it.”
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cue captain obvious.
It’s nice to read some good news about public housing for a change.
“But the program has compiled an impressive record. More than 850 families have completed the program to enter assistance-free living, and 30 percent of program participants became homeowners when they left. Kauffman said she could probably count on one hand the number of people who ended the program facing possible homelessness.”
I wonder if she has more than 500 fingers. Because there is no way that “second, third or fourth generation” families are making this happen.
“Households with three strikes for failing to meet any of those standards lose their housing subsidy, as about 2 percent of program participants have”
Ah.. there it is. She has about 30 fingers on each hand.
With all of the growth hormones in the milk, gibmidats are generating at 11 and 12 now a days.
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