While listening to NPR the other day, I heard a piece about homeless families in New York shelters who would be forced to pay up to $900 a month on a sliding scale to live in a shelter there. The commentator's opinion, which would echo mine, was why? Why indeed charge them for a place to live that in other instances is free of charge? Why take the money that many of these families are saving for downpayments on cars, houses, apartments, etc, when it will not even begin to touch the enormous cost of housing all of these families. The subsidies on rent for homeless families have even increased. The opinion of others in the blogging world is that when the government takes money, they are effectively keeping in the ones who are actually trying to get out. While the Coalition for the Homeless takes the side of those in need, who else will?
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