Housing and Community Development
I am very pleased to see that there are so many different housing and community development policies out there. Before now, I really did not know much about the housing policies or what exactly they were all about. What I do know is that environment does contribute to people being in poverty. Those living in low income populations are surrounded by other individuals with some of the same problems as them. Therefore, communities need to be integrated. In a previous post, I mentioned a theory about achieving a society with low concentrations of poverty and there actually is a program out there just for that. The HOPE IV Program actually tries to break up poor communities (such as traditional Section 8 housing) and create mixed ones which will benefit poor families and have a positive impact. Another program that interested me was the HOME program because it helps low income families with affordable housing. I am so glad to hear that there are grants out there and people out there want to help those in poverty succeed. People in poverty still deserve decent homes and should be able to afford one that they will be able to one day call their own. As we know there are millions of people in America who are living in poverty; therefore, we have so much work to do in order to help all these individuals.
Perhaps the government actually does care and wants to rebuild poor neighborhoods. President Obama has made it his duty to try to help urban communities. He wants to provide more money for the Community Development Block Grant as well as other grants. From what I learned about this act, it seems like it could really benefit low income families and metropolitan areas as a whole. He wants to educate them, provide them training that will give them skills for a good job and also help them save on their energy bills.
I really did learn new information from this session. I can see that there is a lot being done in the housing aspect. However, this alone is still not going to help bring people out of poverty. These programs have been around for many, many years and yet poverty has still been increasing. Moving them to better housing is just a start and more steps need to be taken.
Perhaps the government actually does care and wants to rebuild poor neighborhoods. President Obama has made it his duty to try to help urban communities. He wants to provide more money for the Community Development Block Grant as well as other grants. From what I learned about this act, it seems like it could really benefit low income families and metropolitan areas as a whole. He wants to educate them, provide them training that will give them skills for a good job and also help them save on their energy bills.
I really did learn new information from this session. I can see that there is a lot being done in the housing aspect. However, this alone is still not going to help bring people out of poverty. These programs have been around for many, many years and yet poverty has still been increasing. Moving them to better housing is just a start and more steps need to be taken.
It is wonderful that these programs are there to help those in need. Last night on the news I was watching they were talking about out of all the money collected from tax payers for certain programs only about 10% actually go towards those programs and the rest is unaccounted for. So imagine the world we would be living in if all the collected money always went to what it was intended for.
ReplyDeleteWow that's very interesting. I did not even know that. Yeah I definitely think that ALL of the collected money should go to the programs in order to help as much as possible. Perhaps a lot more can be done through these programs if they actually received the adequate funds.
ReplyDeleteWhile housing programs alone may not help people out of poverty, they are certainly provide a huge step toward self sufficiency and can also serve as a huge confidence builder.
ReplyDeleteI agree that these hosing policies are very helpful to the recipients. As do I agree that the plolicies do a good job of decreasing the concentration of poverished areas, therefor making a positive impact on poverty. But one bad thing is that some of the tennants that are housing policy recipients may affect their new neighborhood in a bad way, by bringing along with them some of their negative influences with them. But this doesnt not count all of them, just the ones that it apllies to as with anything else.
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