Feds Kill Funds for ‘Most Successful’ Senior Housing Program [NewAmericaMedia.org]

Samantha Sangenito 10/29/144:00 AM

When construction started on Heritage Park Senior Village here in mid-October, it marked the end of 55 years of effort by the federal government to make sure low-income elders can live out their years in decent housing.

The development getting underway 18 miles southwest of downtown Detroit is one of the very last to be constructed under a federal housing program that dates back to 1959.

The Section 202 Supportive Housing for the Elderly Program produced 20,000 housing units per year at its peak in the 1970s. It provided public housing agencies and nonprofit groups with grants that covered the cost to build decent rental housing, as well as subsidies for people who were too poor to pay market-rate rents for comparable housing.

[For more of this story, written by Andre F. Shashaty, go to http://newamericamedia.org/201...-housing-program.php]

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