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Terminate Section 8.(public housing reforms)(Brief Article)
Terminate Section 8 Howard Husock, "Let's Eliminate Housing Vouchers," in City Journal (Autumn 2000), Manhattan Institute, 52 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York, New York 10017.
Most recipients of government housing subsidies don't live in public housing. Thanks to "Section 8" public housing vouchers, they can live anywhere; 1.7 million Americans receive Section 8 vouchers, costing the Department of Housing and Urban Development $13 billion per year, one-third of its budget.
Husock, of Harvard's Kennedy School, thinks the Section 8 program should be abolished. The middle-class black neighbors of these Section 8 recipients, he writes, tell him Section 8 "undermines and destabilizes their communities by importing social problems into their midst."
Section 8 provides recipients with a voucher of up to $1,300 a month, to be given to a landlord as a rent supplement. By law, three-quarters of Section 8 vouchers must go to households with incomes less than 30 percent of the national average. Unlike welfare, there is no time limit on receiving assistance.
Advocates of Section 8 hoped poor people would use the vouchers to move to good neighborhoods and better themselves. What has happened, Husock argues, is that the cities with Section 8 recipients become worse off. ...
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