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Comment on Jill Khadduri's “should the housing voucher program become a state‐administered block grant?”

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The stated goal of the Housing Act of 1949 is “a decent home and suitable living environment for every American family.” It is time that we delivered on that commitment. Contrary to popular opinion, this does not require spending more money on housing assistance. It can be achieved without additional funds by shifting all funds from less cost‐effective methods for delivering housing assistance to choice‐based vouchers as soon as current contractual commitments permit and by gradually reducing the large subsidies to current voucher recipients. The proposal to replace the Housing Choice Voucher Program with a block grant to states can contribute to this goal by precluding the use of the block grant funds for project‐based assistance, increasing the targeting of assistance to the poorest families, and including the fraction of recipients with extremely low incomes in the formula for determining the performance rating of state programs.

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  • Edgar Olsen, 2003. "Comment on Jill Khadduri's “should the housing voucher program become a state‐administered block grant?”," Housing Policy Debate, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 14(3), pages 283-293.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:houspd:v:14:y:2003:i:3:p:283-293
    DOI: 10.1080/10511482.2003.9521477
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