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Despite Administration assurances that the Housing and Urban Development (HUD) office will continue to protect those most in need, local authorities said the cuts would be devastating...
...Peter J. Centenari, a HUD spokesman, disagreed on the degree to which the cuts would impact Cambridge. "It is too premature to say how the cuts will affect Cambridge. Not everyone has all the facts," he said yesterday...
Centenari disagreed with Cambridge, officials fears. "The Secretary [of HUD] and the President are both deeply committed to expanding home ownership opportunities around the country...the government's position is to continue to provide housing for the most needy...
However, "as presented, The President's HUD budget almost assuredly will not pass," said Richard S. Goldstein, counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Employment and Housing. He said the Congress would probably not such heavy cuts in housing...
...families on the waiting list. An increase in the number of urban homeless threatens to pressure the system even further. The need for improved programs for funding and managing low-income housing is critical, but until they are developed, existing projects will need to be maintained. HUD estimates it would take $67 billion to replace them. Without public housing or low-cost alternatives, says Carrie Copeland, president of Capitol Homes Tenant Association in Atlanta, "there's nowhere else...