Submitted by GM, May 21, 2007 15:49

Instead of selling. Why not just put a cap on the number of years a family can live in the projects? Right now, there is a long waiting list for these apartments in public housing and not many people are moving out. The article points out families stay an average of 17 years. Wouldn't it make more sense to give a family only five years or so to live in the projects. It would give families a sense of urgency to improve their financial being and move out of the projects and would provide affordable housing for other families that have been on the waiting list. I'm sure people want to improve their economic standing in life and our current system only perpetuates people to not want to move out of the projects creating a shortage of housing for families that really need it.

GM

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