[Headline] "HUD fails to deliver the number"
[Subheading] Lost vouchers could help get people put of costly nursing homes

By Tim Wheat

[Subheading] ADAPT Action Report: Sunday, September 9, 2007.

Alphonso Jackson, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, promised he would meet ADAPT in Chicago with a number of vouchers HUD has recovered. Instead, Mr. Jackson sent two representatives, who brought no recovered housing subsidies that would have eased the "outrageous" level of discrimination in housing against persons with disabilities.

"How could HUS come and not tell us how many vouchers they recovered?" asked Cassie James, who introduced Secretary Jackson to ADAPT in May. "I think they agree that we are being discriminated against but they don't think HUD needs to do anything about it."

HUD had set aside housing subsidy vouchers to help people move out of nursing homes into the community. But HUD does not know if those vouchers were used as intended. Secretary Jackson admitted that vouchers were lost and promised to recover some and report that number to ADAPT today.

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