More than 850 families have transitioned out of public housing in Delaware since the state began limiting the length of time residents are eligible to receive housing subsidies, and hundreds more have become homeowners.
“Before we started Moving to Work, we had people who were on their third or fourth generation of the same family who were at the same site,” Rebecca Kauffman, social service senior administrator at the Delaware Housing Authority’s Moving to Work program, told The Daily Caller News Foundation.
The Delaware group is one of only 39 housing authorities out of more than 3,000 in the country that the federal government allows to have its own work requirements and residency time limits. The Moving to Work program was approved during the Clinton administration in 1996.
“It was tough at the beginning because there was no time limit,” Kauffman said. “People could come into public housing and stay forever.”
But the program has compiled an impressive record. More than 850 families have completed the program to enter assistance-free living, and 30 percent of program participants became homeowners when they left. Kauffman said she could probably count on one hand the number of people who ended the program facing possible homelessness.
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All public housing should adopt this program. As the article states, before starting this program some of the residents had been in public housing for three and four generations. After starting the program that is no longer the case. Also agree with the children having to maintain their school attendance and either stay in school or get a job after reaching 18 to be able to stay in the house. Same thing should be done with welfare payments. If you forever give to some people they will just continue to take.
ReplyDeleteGee I wonder what would happened if they limited welfare too...
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