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	Housing Subsidies for Poor Threatened by Aid Cuts The New York Times "On April 22, the Department of Housing and Urban Development told housing agencies that it would pay only the cost of a voucher as of last August, plus an inflation adjustment"... The resulting shortfall "may force housing agencies to freeze the number of vouchers, demand more money from tenants or do something that has never happened in Section 8's three-decade history: evict tenants from federally subsidized housing because of insufficient funding."


	Cuts to Voucher Program Puts Low-Income Families At Risk Center on Bodget and Policy Priorities "Hundreds of thousands of low-income, elderly, and disabled families across the country could lose much or all of their federal housing assistance under cuts the Administration has proposed in the nation’s main low-income housing assistance program."


	MotherJones.com: Slashing Section 8 "The Bush administration aims in its 2005 budget to cut by $1 billion the $18 billion fund that helps about 2 million Americans--generally the poor, elderly, and disabled--pay their rent."


	Local Effects of Proposed Cuts in Federal Housing Assistance Center on Budget and Policy Priorities State by state data shows the estimated impact of the Administration’s proposals in each state for 2005 and 2009.


	Bush Aims to Localize Rent Aid Washington Post The Bush administration's proposal would give broad new powers to local housing authorities. "The idea, which is intended partly to save money, is a sequel to the administration's failed attempt a year ago to convert federal rent vouchers -- the government's largest form of housing subsidies -- into block grants run by states."


	New Section 8 Proposal Gets Rough Reception HousingFinance.com "The Bush administration's new proposal to restructure the Sec. 8 voucher program is getting the same type of unfriendly reception that derailed last year's state block-grant plan."


	State Section 8 Profiles Nation Center for Children in Poverty From the LIFT Policies Database, includes information on financial eligibility criteria, work eligibility criteria, benefits, and recipient and spending data.


	Evictions Averted in Section 8 Funding Gap The Boston Globe "More than 650 low-income families were spared from eviction after state housing officials said Tuesday that they had resolved a $550,000 funding gap in a federal housing voucher program ... The federal government cut the state's allocation for Section 8 housing vouchers three weeks ago without notice."


	Housing Voucher Assistance Will Be Cut Unless HUD Does More Center on Budget and Policy Priorities HUD’s policy on voucher funding is "forcing state and local housing agencies across the country to make cuts in voucher assistance that will cause significant hardship among low-income families."


	Section 8 Interpretation Puts 60,000 Low-Income Famlies At Risk (48k DOC) National Association of Housing & Redevelopment Officials HUD's interpretation of the FY 2004 omnibus appropriations bill would under-fund over 950 local housing agencies by over $354 million and over-fund 750 others by $190 million. This funding shortfall would put over 60,000 vouhcer-assisted low-cincome families and their participating property owners at risk.

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