New York Daily News, August 14, 2016: Disaster Predicted for Obama Desegregation Plan for City’s Poor

“The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development wants to change the way it doles out housing vouchers to low-income tenants. The idea is to break up concentrations of poverty in New York City and 30 other metro areas by paying less to subsidize apartments in high-poverty neighborhoods, and more in upper-income neighborhoods. The hope is that it will shift low-income tenants into neighborhoods with lower crime and better schools — but a growing number of city critics say that won’t play in New York City. In fact, they predict disaster, estimating that the change could wind up forcing 55,000 lower-income households now receiving vouchers out on the street.”