[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 72 (Tuesday, May 21, 2013)]
[House]
[Page H2810]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 SEQUESTRATION EFFECTS IN PENNSYLVANIA

  (Mr. CARTWRIGHT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. CARTWRIGHT. Mr. Speaker, over the past few weeks, newspapers in 
my district in Pennsylvania have reported that local housing 
authorities are facing a ``nightmare'' due to sequestration cuts in 
HUD, the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Mr. Speaker, 
fewer people are going to be able to access housing as a result of this 
Congress' nightmare policies.
  In Northampton County, Pennsylvania, alone, 85 people are going to 
have to leave the section 8 voucher program through turnover or there 
will be evictions. In Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, 900 people will be 
removed from the program's waiting list.
  Our social safety net is disappearing. And what happens if these 
people fall into homelessness? According to HUD, the annual cost of a 
shelter bed funded by the Emergency Shelter Grants program is 
approximately $8,067 more than the average annual cost of a section 8 
voucher. This Congress is being penny-wise and pound-foolish.

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