A recent proposal to permit an unlimited expansion of the Moving to Work (MTW) demonstration, which now exempts 35 housing agencies from nearly all federal housing laws and regulations, risks deep cuts to housing assistance over time.  Read more or if you can’t hide, then insert link and cut to here. The proposal could lead a very large share of the nation’s 3,900 state and local housing agencies to convert their Housing Choice Voucher and public housing funding streams to Moving to Work block grants.  Large-scale conversions to MTW block grants would likely lead over time to even deeper cuts in program funding. Funding for the four major housing block grant programs has declined sharply in relation to other low-income housing programs over the past decade. Together, those four block grants have lost fully 38 percent of their value since 2001, after adjusting for inflation.

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