You’ll get nothing and you’ll like it Jason Chaffetz. – PB/TK
Jason Chaffetz invents a housing crisis in D.C. — while ignoring a real one back home in Utah – By Naomi Lachance / July 1 2017
In an interview published last Tuesday, Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, proposed a $2,500 housing stipend for members of Congress to more easily afford housing at home and in Washington. Chaffetz, who is resigning from Congress without completing his current term, has ignored the growing affordable-housing crisis in Utah.
The housing shortage, fueled by a low minimum wage and high rental costs, is forcing families to move into inadequate housing or pack many people under one roof
“We’re getting hit with factors that, combined, have put us in [a] very precarious housing situation that’s going to take some time to get out of,” Jaren Davis, executive officer of the Salt Lake Home Builders Association, told Deseret News in March.
Utah is short 47,180 homes for low-income families, and 68 percent of the state’s extremely low-income residents have “severe” difficulty affording housing, according to the National Low Income Housing Coalition.
Continue to salon.com article: http://www.salon.com/2017/07/01/jason-chaffetz-invents-a-housing-crisis-in-d-c-while-ignoring-a-real-one-back-home-in-utah/
