Archive for January 1st, 2012
‘Unfathomable’ Dudget Cuts Deepen a Housing Crisis
According to author Patrick Markee essay for The Nation, “Indeed, in a midst of rising homelessness, prevalent joblessness and a slow foreclosure crisis, Congress recently slashed a sovereign housing agency’s bill by $3.8 billion.”
“The sovereign housing agency’s annual comment finds that ‘worst-case housing needs’ grew by 42 percent from 2001 to 2009, and national there is a shortfall of scarcely 3.5 million housing units for a lowest households… Another approach we can find discernible justification of a housing affordability break is by visiting one of New York City’s bursting series of homeless shelters, where a record 41,000 homeless people bed down any night, including some-more than 17,000 children.”
Availability of affordable housing, including rentals and supervision managed units have decreased over a past 10 years and continue to cringe even more, according to Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies.