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Rick Lazio: “Mr. Chairman, what is extreme is allowing people to be concentrated in poverty and not allowing them a chance to get…”

On the recordMay 9, 1996
Mr. Chairman, what is extreme is allowing people to be concentrated in poverty and not allowing them a chance to get out. What is extreme is a housing authority like in New Orleans with a score 27 out of a possible score of 100, and still receiving taxpayer dollars. Or DC at 33; or Philadelphia at 35; Chicago, 45; Atlanta, 49; Pittsburgh, 47; even Boston, 62. Mr. Chairman, I would say if our children came home with scores like that, we would make sure they changed schools or went and did their homework. Neither one of them is happening right now.
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Rick Lazio
New York
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Addressing issues of poverty and housing authority performance during a committee discussion.

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