Bruce F. Vento: “I think the point here is that under the preferences set up in this bill that there will be no new applicants under 35…”

“I think the point here is that under the preferences set up in this bill that there will be no new applicants under 35 percent of income. They could apply but the fact is the local housing authority will decide whether an upper income person, admittedly 80 percent of median income, and my colleague said it was in excess of $40,000 in Chicago. I do not know if it is that high in St. Paul, MN, but I think it is close to it. And the fact is that others with lower income, the housing authority could just deny them. So it is possible that over a period of attrition, as people move out or move up in income, that public housing would have higher and higher income persons in it.”