Senate to Decide Whether to Increase Public Housing FundsSara Shorttbyline‚ Feb. 08‚ 2007Once again a major domestic issue was completely absent from the President's State of the Union speech in January: housing. Federal low-income housing programs are so frequently left out of presidential addresses and campaign stump speeches alike that it is easy for many Americans to forget that the federal government even has a role to play in housing our nation's poor. If the public stops thinking that the feds are supposed to provide housing, then maybe they won't get too rattled when the funding for housing programs stops flowing. But it is also all too convenient for another reason: this invisibility provides an invaluable cloak for a drastic stealth campaign to decimate federal low-income housing programs right under our noses. |