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Tuesday, May 25, 2004
Rally for Housing
The Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program provides safe, affordable, integrated housing to more than 2 million American families who would otherwise be homeless. But the program is under attack.
The number of vouchers available to the lowest-income citizens will be cut. In 2005, more than 11,000 families in DC, Maryland and Virginia will lose their vouchers. Rents will increase for tenants who do retain vouchers. And the number of houses in the Section 8 program will decline as the Department of Housing and Urban Development refuses to fund them.
Rally at HUD headquarters (451 Seventh St. SW; L'Enfant Plaza Metro) against cuts to the Section 8 program on Wednesday, May 26, at 11:30 a.m.
For more information, call Marjorie Rifkin at 202/547-0198, ext. 112, Christopher Johnson at 703/486-2790 or Kimball Gray at 301/585-9771.
DC Metro Action is published by Michael Schlesinger, a 32-year veteran of electoral and issue organizing who is committed to social justice and to increasing participation in the political process.
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