"They starved it, then called it broken." Sticker

Congress barred housing agencies from growing the public housing stock at all in the 1998 Quality Housing and Work Responsibility Act, the Faircloth Amendment, then let the program's repair account run dry: the national capital backlog HUD counted at $25.6 billion in 2010 had grown to roughly $70 billion within a decade, and agencies lose more than 10,000 apartments a year to disrepair, over 139,000 units gone to demolition or disposition since 2000. The sticker says "They starved it, then called it broken." and carries the address of the Housing Justice page on this site, where the claim sits with its evidence, the best case against it, and the answer. It is sized for a laptop lid or a water bottle.

What Housing Justice means