{"id":329,"date":"2019-06-19T17:41:51","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T17:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/archives\/?p=329"},"modified":"2019-06-20T01:21:01","modified_gmt":"2019-06-20T01:21:01","slug":"julian-castro-rolls-out-plan-to-make-housing-affordable-and-combat-homelessness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/archives\/329\/","title":{"rendered":"Juli\u00e1n Castro rolls out plan to make housing affordable and combat homelessness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/m.dailykos.com\/stories\/2019\/6\/17\/1865426\/-Juli-n-Castro-rolls-out-plan-to-make-housing-affordable-and-combat-homelessness?detail=emaildkre\">m.dailykos.com\/stories\/2019\/6\/17\/1865426\/-Juli-n-Castro-rolls-out-plan-to-make-housing-affordable-and-combat-homelessness?detail=emaildkre<\/a><br \/>\nJuli\u00e1n Castro rolls out plan to make housing affordable and combat homelessness<br \/>\nJun 17, 2019 4:18pm EDT by Laura Clawson, Daily Kos Staff Saying, \u201cI believe housing is a human right,\u201d Democratic presidential candidate Juli\u00e1n Castro proposed a major increase in federal spending on housing to combat homelessness and the housing crisis. Castro, a former secretary of Housing and Urban Development under President Obama, proposed quadrupling the federal Section 8 rent voucher program, expanding a homeless assistance program, and giving a tax credit for low- and middle-income renters.<br \/>\nSince Section 8 now only has enough funding for 25% of the eligible families, quadrupling the program would mean that being eligible for the assistance and getting it would be the same thing, rather than eligibility meaning years on a wait list.<br \/>\nCastro hasn\u2019t yet released full details on the tax credit for renters paying more than 30% of their income for housing, but other candidates, including Sens. Cory Booker and Kamala Harris, have made similar proposals\u2014clearly this is an idea with traction inside the Democratic Party. <\/p>\n<p>Mary Bolton  202-390-1208<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>m.dailykos.com\/stories\/2019\/6\/17\/1865426\/-Juli-n-Castro-rolls-out-plan-to-make-housing-affordable-and-combat-homelessness?detail=emaildkre Juli\u00e1n Castro rolls out plan to make housing affordable and combat homelessness Jun 17, 2019 4:18pm EDT by Laura Clawson, Daily Kos Staff Saying, \u201cI believe housing is a human right,\u201d Democratic presidential candidate Juli\u00e1n Castro proposed a major increase in federal spending on housing to combat homelessness and the housing crisis. Castro, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-housingarchive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}