Not really. Section 8 vouchers only covers 1 out of every 4 families in poverty who qualify. Housing is out of reach for people at federal minimum wage of $7.25 all across the country.https://twitter.com/nlihc/status/1006903272060411904?s=21 …
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Kim-Mai Cutler Retweeted National Low Income Housing Coalition
Not really. Section 8 vouchers only covers 1 out of every 4 families in poverty who qualify. Housing is out of reach for people at federal minimum wage of $7.25 all across the country.https://twitter.com/nlihc/status/1006903272060411904?s=21 …
Kim-Mai Cutler added,
Yes but absent 3-4 cities nothing has changed since 1980
Kim-Mai Cutler Retweeted Harvard JCHS
No, lots has changed in the last few decades.https://twitter.com/harvard_jchs/status/1063481709646229506?s=21 …
Kim-Mai Cutler added,
That is a false way to look at it. Housing prices have been stable for 30-50 years in all but 3-4 cities.
It's a combination of both. MID intersects with home values, it's deeply regressive and before the standard deduction was increased in 2017, California took about 20% of that $70B tax break, which then got priced into higher housing values. http://realestate.wharton.upenn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/436.pdf …
On the flipside of that, the federal government only spends $3-5B/year on homelessness, when it was de facto propping up CA upper middle class homeowners with MID deductions worth probably $14B...
(Homelessness is also more of a federal issue than voters perceive it to be.)
If you federally subsidize homeownership to upper middle class households at a time when real wages for the median household haven’t moved for 40 years, and you throw token dollars at the flip side of that policy, rising homelessness is a consequence of that.
Homelessness is not really ideally funded or taxed at the municipal level since there’s regional/local sorting among people who receive services and then also among the entities/people that are taxes to provide those services.
You can see it in SF and the Bay Area, where the city ends up bearing the cost burden for all the surrounding suburban areas that deliberately don’t fund homelessness services
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