Affordable Housing in the US

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September 8, 2020
The Legal Perspective
September 8, 2020

Affordable Housing in the US

The attempt by the US government to provide housing facilities to her citizens has sparked a lot of public debates and controversies. The debates and controversies have come in due to the various aspects that relate to housing in the States. Some of the key sources of such debates are encircled on the source of housing assistance, the groups or individuals that require assistance and issues of preservation or mobility in terms of housing. The Unites Statesto provide affordable housing facilities to allcitizens without bias and discrimination. The department ascertains that the provision of affordable housing should be upheld to families that pay more than 30% of their incomes on housing. The department hasembarkedon a series of grant programs with an aim of increasing the affordability of housing by low-income people. For instance, the National Housing Trust Fund (NHTF) aims at providing support to the extremely low-income families to enable them acquire and construct rental units. Despite these attempts by the government, various debates have eruptedIn 2012, the National Low-Income Housing Coalition embarked on a housing dilemma on whether the preservation or mobility public housing should be initiated. The federal housing policy should provide policies to move the low-income residents to areas lived by those with higher incomes with low levels of racial segregation rather than preserving the existing public housing.

Mobility of Housing

The federal housing policy should strive to provide the means by which low incomes people should move from the already existing public and assisted housing. The action of increasing the mobility of the low-income people from their previous housing set-ups has a number of merits. The advantages accrued to such an action will by far outweigh the disadvantages. Increased levels of diversity will be realized as a result of this action. Diversity in the USA societies will be enhanced by the efforts of the federal housing policy to move the low-income households from their original housing settings. The association of the newly moved low–income residents with those with higher incomes would prompt some diversity in various aspects. For instance, diversity in cultural, religious and other social issues will be enhanced between the two groups. Cultural exchange and mimic amongst the new entrants and the predecessors will be enhanced hence peaceful co-existence. The incorporation of new religious practices and undertakings in the new blend of the society will further diversity in religion and subsequently the religious beliefs. The interaction between the two groups will initiate aspects of intermarriages that help to shun the problem of racial segregation thereby

The act of moving the low-income households to higher income housing through the federal housing policy will be a key ingredient in overcoming the monster of racism that has since existed among the people. Racism is a kind of human discrimination based on the race factor. Racial segregation is primarily the action of isolating people of the same race in one place where they may live together.The adoption of the mobility policy will ultimately help to curb and overcome the racism that is one of the major setbacks to integration in the USA. The existing public assisted houses were entirely set aside for the black people and their families. The notion that the blacks were poor and could not afford better housing facilities ought to be scrapped off the minds of the US citizens by moving them to higher income households. Reduced cases of racism and racial segregation would result in profound impacts on the social, economic and political endeavors of the citizens. Other kinds of bias and antics that result from racism and segregation will be scrapped off too.

The federal housing policy action to move the low-income families to areas with little or no segregation will increase the levels of mutualism and low levels of discrimination. A mutualistic relationship between the new entrants and the predecessors will exist thereby shaping the societal norms and other related practices.There will be no housing discrimination on the basis of region