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To: RealMuLan who wrote (23989)	2/20/2005 6:47:54 PM
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Housing activists: Bush budget to hurt Twin Cities February 20, 2005 CUTS0220 ? ? WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Minnesota housing activists say that 3,312 Twin Cities families would lose access to affordable housing under President Bush's budget, which calls for a $3 billion cut in funding to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). The estimate is based on a study released Friday by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a Washington think tank. The study found that 728 fewer families in the Twin Cities' seven-county metro area are likely to receive rent assistance vouchers this year under the "Section 8" low-income housing program. According to Housing Minnesota, a housing advocacy group, by the end of Bush's five-year budget, the number of families assisted in the Twin Cities would be cut by 3,312. HUD officials say the budget does not plan for a specific number of vouchers -- as the government has in the past -- but rather provides set dollar amounts, permitting local housing officials to set their own subsidy levels. In the past few years, they say that voucher costs have increased at a rate more than double the average increase in the private rental market. Kevin Diaz startribune.com