Because of differences in the way low-income housing is addressed state by state, proposed cuts have set off a West Coast-East Coast tug of war.
In the scramble to appease centrists by scaling back their massive social safety-net spending bill, Democrats are discussing cutting in half
The largest housing pieces in Democrats’ Build Back Better package, still subject to negotiation, divide assistance into three main buckets: repairs on public housing facilities, vouchers for low-income renters and construction of new low-income housing. In 1950, Californians voted to put a provision in the state Constitution that makes it harder for poor people to find a place to live.
“It unintentionally discriminates in favor of East Coast” cities, Garcetti said in an interview. “So if you’re in New York, you get the bulk of [public housing funding], and an equal share of [vouchers],” Garcetti said. He asked the White House to “protect those vouchers disproportionately, so you can be fair to America.”
While California does not have nearly as much public housing, it faces a deep shortage of affordable homes and a rental market that’s squeezing lower and middle-class Californians.
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