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Link Uniqueness- No mobile vouchers nowThe status quo fails to allow mobility for vouchers users Will Fischer- Senior Policy Analyst at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities- 06/04/09- Testimony: Will Fischer, Senior Policy Analyst, at the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity-Online- http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=2833 A major reason is that the agency that first issues a voucher to a family must continue to cover the cost of the voucher after the family moves, unless the agency in the destination community voluntarily accepts the cost by “absorbing” the voucher. This arrangement is administratively cumbersome and can carry added costs for the issuing agency if the community to which the family moves has higher rents than the community the family left. For their part, destination agencies are often reluctant to absorb portability vouchers because that would divert scarce resources away from families on the agency’s own waiting list. SEVRA would direct HUD to resolve this impasse by issuing regulations promptly after enactment that eliminate or minimize the extent to which one agency must bill another agency for the cost of a voucher for a family that has relocated, without preventing each agency from assisting families from its own waiting list. HUD could achieve this, for example, by requiring destination agencies to absorb the vouchers while making those agencies eligible for funding to cover the resulting costs. This solution treats both agencies equitably and ensures that the portability process is not unnecessarily cumbersome. Links- Section 8 vouchers= gentrificationSection 8 vouchers empirically lead to gentrification, breaking down the projects and moving their former residents out of the city Kari Lydersen- Independent Journalist for LIP magazine- 03.15.99- SHAME OF THE CITIES: Gentrification in the New Urban America- Online- http://www.lipmagazine.org/articles/featlydersen_7_p.htm In many cities, decrepit public housing projects stand on some of the most valuable land. In other areas, project-based Section 8 (scattered site public housing) units are earmarked for low-income residents, but landlords are realizing they could be getting astronomically higher rents for these structures. Thanks to original ill-conceived plans and shameful maintenance, much public housing is now virtually unlivable. Now federal and state agencies are removing large public housing projects in every major city. The majority of residents are given Section 8 vouchers and sent into the open market to find an affordable apartment. Yet the federal government has also passed legislation that spells the near-total dismantling of project-based Section 8 housing. Developers previously got low-interest mortgages to build apartments for Section 8 housing, with the tenants paying a third of their income toward rent and the government picking up the slack. But recently, landlords have been allowed to buy out their 40-year mortgages early, get rid of Section 8 tenants, and raise the rents to fit the market. If they don’ t do this, there are always other means they can use. "We’re afraid that local HUD offices will start enforcing quality standards on Section 8 buildings real strictly in valuable areas," says Mike Foley of the Cleveland Tenants Union. "The buildings won’t be up to code so they’ll lose the Section 8, then they’ll be demolished or rehabbed for market rate housing." In Los Angeles, low-income housing advocates fear that the demise of project-based Section 8 housing will be catastrophic. Already, L.A. has had 30 landlords buy out of Section 8 mortgages since the law went into effect. "Venice is one of the last places in the country where low-income people can live by the beach," said Larry Gross of the Coalition for Economic Survival in L.A. "We’re just barely holding on to HUD-assisted housing there. But soon it will all be over and become condo conversions. In general it’s a bleak picture. The policies that have been enacted and the direction we’re heading seem to spell disaster for low-income people." People displaced from public housing and Section 8 will add even more strain to the already tight affordable-housing markets. And their displacement from gentrifiable areas will doubly help the gentrifiers. Not only have Section 8 and public-housing units been cleared for market rate units, but the removal of the undesirable poor residents will instantly make the neighborhood "better" and more attractive to wealthy residents. The racial element of the dismantling of public housing is impossible to ignore. Public housing activists charge that, with the vast majority of public housing residents being black and Latino, their high concentration in valuable areas is too much for city officials and developers to bear. As public housing disappears, these minority residents are scattered. Link Booster- Gentrification snowballsAny Risk of a Turn means you vote Neg- Gentrification snowballs into more and more gentrification, meaning even the smallest risk of a link will have massive impacts NEIL SMITH- Professor of Anthropology and Geography at the City University of New York. – 1996- THE NEW URBAN FRONTIER Gentrification and the revanchist city- Page- 21
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