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Hosing Housing

Continued from page 2

Published on April 15, 1999

Local housing advocates were distressed to learn of the latest HUD audit, which in their view underscores how, for years now, city housing policy has been mostly talk, but little substance.

"We don't have nearly enough money going toward real housing for real low- and moderate-income people," says David Kahne, a Houston lawyer who specializes in affordable-housing issues. "This report should be the basis for improving housing policy here, for providing meaningful oversight, not programs that are run out of back rooms.

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