Sunday, June 9, 2013

Another Positive Of The Sequestration

From the New York Daily News: As many as 8,000 housing vouchers for low-income New Yorkers will be yanked as $120 million in federal sequestration cuts take effect.
The city's beleaguered Housing Authority plans to forgo issuing roughly 5,000 new Section 8 vouchers, according to Crain's New York Business. The agency’s existing 95,000 voucher holders will be spared.
The Department of Housing Preservation and Development has also decided to forgo issuing 3,000 new vouchers.
Tenants with Section 8 vouchers pay one-third of their income as rent. In the five boroughs, the average rent paid in the program is $434 with average annual income of around $15,081.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/federal-budget-cuts-trim-city-housing-vouchers-article-1.1367813#ixzz2VnCFq3Hl
If the they go through the records, check each person's needs, check each person's income- they should be able to find 8000 people who have been gaming the system.  In addition, if they cut case workers, cut administrators in the program because they will be serving fewer clients, then, fewer people will be affected.
Another positive of the sequestration.

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