Stop low-cost housing drain

23 Nov 2008

As part of its "Cities Now and Tomorrow" editorial series, the Detroit Free Press published this Opinion piece discussing affordable housing policy and the emerging housing crisis that President-Elect Obama and Congress now face.


Photo: JEFF GERRITT/Detroit Free Press
In New York, the Abyssinian Development Corp. has maintained the Ennis Francis Houses' 231 units as Section 8 housing and plans to add 60 units

Preserving affordable housing must become central to a new federal housing agenda. Fully recognizing the growing importance of rental markets, such an agenda should also include tax credits to low-income renters, similar to Earned Income Tax Credits, and assistance to local governments to buy and fix up foreclosed property for affordable housing.

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