{"id":359070,"date":"2018-04-30T14:25:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-30T13:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-housing-secretary-proposes-tripling-of-rent-for-the-poor\/"},"modified":"2018-04-30T14:25:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-30T13:25:00","slug":"us-housing-secretary-proposes-tripling-of-rent-for-the-poor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-housing-secretary-proposes-tripling-of-rent-for-the-poor\/","title":{"rendered":"US housing secretary proposes tripling of rent for the poor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h4>As CEO pay, corporate profits and corporate cash hit new highs<\/h4>\n<h2>US housing secretary proposes tripling of rent for the poor<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    30 April 2018<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p> US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Ben Carson\u2019s \u201cMaking Affordable Housing Work Act of 2018,\u201d unveiled last week, would spell destitution for the poorest households receiving federal rental assistance, virtually all of which have annual incomes of less than $7,000. Roughly 1.7 million people, including 1 million children, would face eviction and homelessness.<\/p>\n<p>The typical household affected would be a single mother with two children, with an annual income of $2,400\u2014or just $200 a month. After paying rent, under this proposal, the family would have only $48 left to pay for necessities like clothing, diapers, school supplies and food or medical needs not covered by other assistance.<\/p>\n<p>The housing proposal would impose a mandatory tripling of the minimum rent for households with an adult younger than 65, to at least $152; raise rents from the current 30 percent to 35 percent of gross income; and allow local public housing authorities to impose work requirements on those receiving benefits.<\/p>\n<p>Carson\u2019s sadistic plan is only the latest in a series of attacks on the most vulnerable and impoverished Americans that are being proposed or carried out at the federal and state level. It follows an executive order by President Trump instructing the secretaries of six federal departments to seek out new ways to gut existing programs and impose work requirements for Medicaid, food stamps, home heating assistance, housing assistance and welfare benefits.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to housing assistance cuts, other major programs targeted include:<\/p>\n<p> <strong>*<\/strong> <strong>Medicaid<\/strong>: Trump\u2019s Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Services (CMS) has given wide latitude for&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2018\/04\/30\/pers-a30.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 As CEO pay, corporate profits and corporate cash hit new highs US housing secretary proposes tripling of rent for the poor 30 April 2018 US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Ben Carson\u2019s \u201cMaking Affordable Housing Work Act of 2018,\u201d unveiled last week, would spell destitution for the poorest households receiving federal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-359070","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}