Rick Lazio: “the issue is not just the amount of poor people, because we have quadrupled our spending in housing since 1980. This is…”

“the issue is not just the amount of poor people, because we have quadrupled our spending in housing since 1980. This is not just about money. This is about basic management, about creating the right incentives, about ensuring that we have mixed income. If I can just finish, if I could just finish my thought to the gentleman from Massachusetts [Mr. Kennedy], the real controversy that we have here is that while we say we are for mixed income, we say we are for keeping the working poor in public housing, the net effect of the gentleman's amendment, if it is adopted, is to condemn another generation of residents, of young people, to live in that same area, the same environment of super concentrations of poverty. That is happening here in our own Nation's Capital. We do not think we can take another year like this. We do not think we can take another 5 years, we surely do not think we can take another 10 years like this.”