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Please post the relevant links, so the rest of us can be enlightened. I want to see a government program that had a massive reduction in funding.

by pcardh0 11y ago

Devthrowaway80 11y ago
From Googling "federal public housing funding 1980s", the very first link states: "In his first year in office Reagan halved the budget for public housing and Section 8 to about $17.5 billion. And for the next few years he sought to eliminate federal housing assistance to the poor altogether." From the Wikipedia article entitled "Public housing in the United States", which has a section specifically about the period of time in question: "Under the Reagan administration, household contribution towards Section 8 rents was increased to 30% of household income and fair market rents were lowered. Public assistance for housing efforts was reduced as part of a package of across the board cuts." I am not an American and don't know the history of American federal program funding, but I do have access to things that let me search for things. You should try it.
zo1 11y ago
This was enlightening, I copy-pasted that person's comment about funding in the 1980s and got three decent hits on the matter, one of which included actual stats (32B-6.9B): http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa127.html http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa127.html #Edit. Reading the article further, it seems the Cato institute dismisses/rebukes most of the points regarding federal housing being the cause of homelessness in the 1980's.
- pcardh0 11y ago
  Imagine that. From the link: Like the shift from 40-year mortgage subsidies to 15- year housing certificates, the shift from the certificates to 5-year vouchers enabled Congress to reduce HUD's budget authorizations. Such reductions have created the mistaken impression that federal housing assistance has been cut. In fact, annual outlays increased from $5.7 billion in 1980 to $13.8 billion in 1988. The number of families being served by HUD housing programs rose from 3.1 million in 1980 to 4.2 million in 1988. Moreover, a housing voucher costs the government only about $4,500 a year, whereas a new unit of public housing costs it $9,000 a year. I guess mistaken impressions are still common on the internet.
  - beatpanda 11y ago
    Have you ever met anybody who's tried to actually use a Section 8 voucher? I'm going to bet you haven't and neither has the author of the linked paper.

Please post the relevant links, so the rest of us can be enlightened. I want to see a government program that had a massive reduction in funding.

by pcardh0 11y ago

Please post the relevant links, so the rest of us can be enlightened. I want to see a government program that had a massive reduction in funding.

Devthrowaway80 11y ago

From Googling "federal public housing funding 1980s", the very first link states: "In his first year in office Reagan halved the budget for public housing and Section 8 to about $17.5 billion. And for the next few years he sought to eliminate federal housing assistance to the poor altogether." From the Wikipedia article entitled "Public housing in the United States", which has a section specifically about the period of time in question: "Under the Reagan administration, household contribution towards Section 8 rents was increased to 30% of household income and fair market rents were lowered. Public assistance for housing efforts was reduced as part of a package of across the board cuts." I am not an American and don't know the history of American federal program funding, but I do have access to things that let me search for things. You should try it.

zo1 11y ago

This was enlightening, I copy-pasted that person's comment about funding in the 1980s and got three decent hits on the matter, one of which included actual stats (32B-6.9B): http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa127.html http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa127.html #Edit. Reading the article further, it seems the Cato institute dismisses/rebukes most of the points regarding federal housing being the cause of homelessness in the 1980's.

pcardh0 11y ago
Imagine that. From the link: Like the shift from 40-year mortgage subsidies to 15- year housing certificates, the shift from the certificates to 5-year vouchers enabled Congress to reduce HUD's budget authorizations. Such reductions have created the mistaken impression that federal housing assistance has been cut. In fact, annual outlays increased from $5.7 billion in 1980 to $13.8 billion in 1988. The number of families being served by HUD housing programs rose from 3.1 million in 1980 to 4.2 million in 1988. Moreover, a housing voucher costs the government only about $4,500 a year, whereas a new unit of public housing costs it $9,000 a year. I guess mistaken impressions are still common on the internet.
- beatpanda 11y ago
  Have you ever met anybody who's tried to actually use a Section 8 voucher? I'm going to bet you haven't and neither has the author of the linked paper.