So, this is what the Liberal Faux Media offers us as "The Only Viable Choices" a Party that would even consider raising rent on the poor while talking with the opposition about how got get 800 Billion stimulus for not raising taxes and making all off shore profits of said corporations to be non taxable.... there is a discussion on that!
We have TWO CORPORATE Parties, and the Only Candidates we get to hear about are from the CORPORATE Media, and we are told, our only viable choice is the lesser of the evils. Is this the evil we want? If so, please vote for it. If not, stop waiting for the lesser of the evils to make themselves non evil, and get out and lead, be the change you want. Vote for the person whom you've researched and feel is the best candidate. To continually ignore good possibilities and choose evil as your only viable choice, gets us exactly what we voted for, and more of it every year. We have a choice between a Corporate Leader who will even discuss raises rent on the poor, cutting the social programs our taxes were approved for, works unendingly towards the perpetual wars as created by his predecessor, whom Obama say nothing he had done that was worth impeachment, .... and the Other Corporate Party Racist Misogynistic and also hates the poor and loves perpetual war. Those two choices, or do something different. Scott PS other comments about this article below. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Liberal my ass, a republican in drag is all this president is or has done. Also called a Blue Dog Dummycrat, which is code for a Republican running as a so called liberal. Anyone knowing how little some people have to spend each month and raising the rents means no food for half the month. -------- Original Message -------- President's Proposal to Raise Rents on some of the Nation's Poorest Households Would Cause Serious Hardship By Barbara Sard Center on Budget and Policy Priorities March 20, 2012 The President's budget proposes to raise the rents charged to more than 500,000 of the nation's poorest families. It would do this by raising to $75 a month the "minimum rent" charged to the poorest families in the rental assistance programs that the Department of Housing and Urban Development administers and eliminating state and local housing agencies' discretion to set the minimum rent below that level. Half a million families with incomes below $250 per month, or $3,000 per year, would face rent increases that many would have difficulty affording. For the vast majority of these households â about 400,000 of them â rents would increase by 50 percent or more. A substantial number of families in every state would face rent increases (see Appendix I), although the severity of the impact would vary due to differences across the states in such factors as joblessness and the strength of other safety-net programs (see Appendix II). The affected families include 725,000 children, and are disproportionately minority. This proposal comes even as a study by leading poverty researchers finds that the number of U.S. families with children living below a standard the World Bank uses to measure serious poverty in third-world countries â income of less than $2 per person per day â has more than doubled since the mid-1990s, to 1.46 million families with 2.8 million children. [1] The President's proposal is similar to (although harsher than) one in the version of the Affordable Housing and Self-Sufficiency Improvement Act (AHSSIA) that a subcommittee of the House Financial Services Committee approved on February 7, which would require housing agencies and owners to charge these families a minimum rent of $69.45 a month in rent (and more in future years).[2] The full House Financial Services Committee is likely to consider the legislation in the next few weeks. Families that receive federal rental assistance are generally required to pay 30 percent of their income for rent. Local housing agencies may require families in the public housing and housing voucher programs to pay a minimum rent of $50 per month, however, if 30 percent of their income is less than that amount. For very poor households who live in project-based section 8 rental units, HUD has established a minimum rent of $25.[3] The minimum rent generally affects only the most impoverished recipients, including many who would be at high risk of homelessness in the absence of rental assistance. The proposal would also force the more than 1,000 local housing agencies that have elected to set minimum rents below the current $50-a-month limit to raise their rents. A housing agency that has set a minimum rent of $25 a month for destitute families would be forced to triple the rent it requires such families to pay. A 2010 HUD-sponsored study found that 26 percent of local housing agencies surveyed set minimum rents below the $50 limit.[4] A mandatory $75 minimum rental charge would force those agencies to raise rents on close to 100,000 families. 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