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    CMHA Public housing units might be halved

    The Dispatch wrote Public housing might be halved

    Monday, May 12, 2008

    BY RITA PRICE

    The Columbus Metropolitan Housing Authority wants to tear down six of its largest and oldest public-housing communities and give the residents Section 8 vouchers so they can rent privately owned places.

    The five-year plan hinges on approval from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, which regulates public housing and issues the vouchers. Nearly 1,700 units, or about half the CMHA-owned total, would disappear, including historic Poindexter Village.

    Dennis Guest, CMHA executive director, said he sees little choice. “We’re bleeding,” he said. Double-digit percentage cuts by HUD have drained more than $7 million from the authority’s operating subsidy since 2003. Nationally, advocates say, housing authorities have been underfunded by nearly $12 billion over the past seven years.

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