Site Tools:
|
Site Tools: |
|---|
                 
|
Press RoomSection
8 Program Faces Cuts: Thousands of Families in Jeopardy Contact: Liz Hennessy, 202-289-3500 ext. 280 or lhennessy@nahro.org Despite decades of impressive success and strong bipartisan support, the nation's largest housing program is in danger of being cut. The Section 8 Housing Voucher Program, which serves over 2 million of America's most vulnerable families, faces unprecedented cuts for this year and into the foreseeable future as a result of administration proposals that would severely weaken the ability of local housing agencies to help its voucher recipients, most of whom are the working poor, the elderly, or disabled. The National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials (NAHRO), the nation's leading representative of local housing agencies, has been on the forefront of the debate on this contentious issue and is battling to preserve the program that the Millennial Housing Commission deemed to be the "linchpin" of national housing policy. At its Summer Conference next week, NAHRO will be holding a press event to spotlight the issue, featuring NAHRO President and Livonia (MI) Housing Commission Director James M. Inglis and NAHRO Executive Director Saul Ramirez Jr. Mr. Inglis, Mr. Ramirez, and other leaders in the housing and community development field will be available to speak about the findings of a new NAHRO survey detailing the expected effects of the administration's proposals on residents, agencies, and communities should the proposals be made into permanent law. Local housing agencies will likely face dire choices as they struggle to provide invaluable aid to their communities and those who most need help in staying housed-and the scale of these possible changes is just now being understood, as NAHRO releases this study for the first time. The event will be held from 12:00 to 1:00 pm on Friday, July 16, 2004, in the Marquette A room of the Detroit Renaissance Marriot Conference Center in downtown Detroit. Lunch will be served for reporters covering the event. If you have any questions related to the event or this issue, please
contact NAHRO Media Relations Director John Bohm at 1-877-2476 ext.
235 (jbohm@nahro.org). Thank
you for your time and attention on this matter as we work to focus attention
on a critical matter of domestic policy.
|
||
 |
