Transportation, Treasury, Housing and Urban Development, the Judiciary, the District of Columbia, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 2006
TRANSPORTATION, TREASURY, HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT, THE JUDICIARY, THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, AND INDEPENDENT AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2006 -- (House of Representatives - June 29, 2005)
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Mr. DAVIS of Illinois. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike the requisite number of words.
Mr. Chairman, I simply could not let the time go by without rising to support the Nadler-Velázquez amendment.
I realize the difficulty of finding resources. We all know about tight budgets, and we know that you cannot get blood out of a turnip. But the Section 8 housing voucher program is one of the best things that has happened for poor people in this country. Every day my phone rings incessantly with people asking if we know where they can find a place to live; do we know where they can find some low-income housing; do we know where they can find some affordable housing?
And while we are only talking about 15,000 vouchers, which is minimum, for those individuals who would be able to acquire them, it would be like receiving manna from heaven.
So I simply reiterate what has already been said and that is if we really want to help the homeless, do as the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Frank) said, provide them with a place to live. I support the amendment.
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Mr. DAVIS of Illinois. Mr. Chairman, I had an amendment at the desk that is a very similar amendment that I will not call up, and I would ask to be incorporated as a cosponsor of the Davis-Harris amendment, to be the Davis-Harris-Davis amendment.
Mr. Chairman, I represent more public housing I suspect than any Member of Congress other than perhaps the gentleman from New York (Mr. Rangel) or the gentleman from New York (Mr. Owens). Cabrini Green, Henry Horner, Rockwell Gardens, Obla, Ogden Courts, Laundale Courts, Hilliard Courts, Stateway Gardens, Ida B. Wells, Lakepoint Towers, all in Chicago.
If Members want to see where Hope VI has been working, we have a transformation plan in Chicago where thousands of people have been able to move out of high-rise buildings where they were packed together like sardines in a can, impossible for socialization to really occur.
I would agree Hope VI has not been perfect, but it has been the best thing that has happened to those individuals because they have been able to move from on top of each other. They have been able to have some breathing room and some space.
I recognize all of the things that the gentleman from Michigan (Chairman KNOLLENBERG) has pointed out, but let us continue to give people hope by providing the continuation of Hope VI programming and Hope VI funding.
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