On the recordApril 30, 1997
I would just like to make 3 quick points to clarify the Record. One, no one for reasons of poverty alone will be eliminated from public housing, only for violations of terms of the lease, such as criminal behavior. Second, the money in this bill is precisely the same as the administration requested. Third, we have to be very careful about this, but experience has shown, verified by experts as well as public consensus, that to concentrate the very poor alone in public housing is to condemn them to a kind of poverty segregation. Single dimension, lowest income housing simply has not worked anywhere in America, particularly high-rise housing. Finally, I would say that to object to reform is to endorse the status quo. This of all Federal programs is one in which there is virtual consensus that the failure rate has been very high.
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