Speech #970071987

To ease the minds of some of my colleagues who believe Senators have come out on the short end of the stick when they engage with a conference with our colleagues from the other body. let me review briefly a few of the accomplishments of the Senate conferees who jousted for a week with the House on these housing matters: Ninetyfive percent of the available subsidized housing units w.ll now be available to the truly needythose who earn less than 50 percent of the median income in their community. The Government will no longer make very lowincome persons wait for housing only because of arbitrary guidelines about many higher income families should be served to achieve proper economic mix. Illegal aliens will no longer be afforded public housng at the expense of equally eligible citizens. The Government will stop allowing ineligible families to live in housing units designated for the needy. Public housing authorities across the country will be given financial incentive to prosecute employees and tenants for fraud and abusenot from Government funds. but from judgments awarded against the ofender.