Affordable Housing in the US

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Affordable Housing in the US

Introduction

The attempt by the US government to provide housing facilities to her citizens has sparked a lot of public debates and controversies. The debates and controversies have come in due to the various aspects that relate to housing in the States. Some of the key sources of such debates are encircled on the source of housing assistance, the groups or individuals that require assistance and issues of preservation or mobility in terms of housing.  The Unites States department of housing and urban development is obliged to provide affordable housing facilities to allcitizens without bias and discrimination.  The department ascertains that the provision of affordable housing should be upheld to families that pay more than 30% of their incomes on housing. The department hasembarkedon a series of grant programs with an aim of increasing the affordability of housing by low-income people. For instance, the National Housing Trust Fund (NHTF) aims at providing support to the extremely low-income families to enable them acquire and construct rental units. Despite these attempts by the government, various debates have erupted on several issues regarding to housing. In 2012 the National Low Income Housing Coalition embarked on a housing dilemma on whether the preservation or mobility public housing should be initiated.  The federal housing policy should provide policies to move the low income residents to areas lived by those with higher incomes with low levels of racial segregation rather than preserving the existing public housing.

Mobility of Housing

The federal housing policy should strive to provide the means by which low incomes people should move from the already existing public and assis.............