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April 26, 2018

HUD plan would raise rent for millions

  • The Make Affordable Housing Work Act would raise rents in public housing to 35 percent from 30 percent of household income and eliminate all deductions.
    • By ASHRAF KHALIL
    Associated Press

    WASHINGTON — Millions of families living in federally subsidized public housing would pay more for rent under a proposal unveiled Wednesday by Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson.

    The proposal would have to be approved by Congress, where it could touch off a debate over how best to support some of the country's poorest and most vulnerable families. Democrats will likely put up fierce resistance and some members of the Republican majority will be reluctant to embrace it ahead of midterm elections in the fall.


     
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