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...plan's 12 sections serve primarily to protect elderly, physically handicapped and "income eligible" tenants--those with incomes 90 percent or less than the median-income guidelines set up by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD...
...work so hard to support my kids, my income came probably to be a little bit too much than [the HUD guidelines]," said Coles Voyard, a two-year tenant who broke into tears as he addressed the council. "But I know next year it's going to be 10 times less. There is no hope...
...Henry Cisneros. Rejecting calls to reserve public housing for the poorest of the poor, the Administration is proposing a series of economic incentives designed to create mixed-income developments where the role models Lane seeks (mostly poor too, but working nonetheless) can live without bankrupting themselves. To this end, HUD will shortly amend its rules so local authorities can prefer working families over welfare recipients as they fill apartment vacancies from waiting lists that now total an astonishing 6 million people nationwide. Rent caps are coming too. Currently families pay 30% of their income in rent, a figure that climbs...
Housing and Urban Development head HENRY CISNEROS, like Department of Energy chief Hazel O'Leary, is owning up to the alleged sins of past Administrations. hud sources say he plans to settle 17 discrimination lawsuits and to concede that for almost two decades HUD's housing projects promoted racial segregation by being built almost exclusively in low-income, minority areas. The first seven settlements will cost about $75 million; instead of receiving cash, the projects will be supplied with additional guards and washing machines...
...Clinton Administration, which has targeted homelessness as HUD's top priority, has the unenviable task of persuading Americans that the problem can be tamed, then finding the money to put more programs to work. For the current fiscal year, Cisneros has inherited a national homeless budget of $570 million -- barely more than the $500 million New York City alone spends on its local homeless problem. Cisneros has boosted next year's budget to $823 million, which seems woefully inadequate since he hopes to "not only deal with the people who are still on the street but work to keep people...