Jerry Nadler: “No one claims that public housing or Section 8 solves poverty. What Section 8 does, which is what we are talking about…”

“No one claims that public housing or Section 8 solves poverty. What Section 8 does, which is what we are talking about here, is to enable people, working people for the most part who are making minimum wage and who cannot afford decent housing in the open market, to afford decent housing. And that is a very elementary and human thing to do, and it is an obligation of ours to do. The other part of this amendment is to provide a little more money to enable the public housing authorities to stop the existing public housing from falling apart for lack of maintenance. And that too is at least as important as the space station.”