Housing Help For Congress? How About For People Who Really Need It?

Opinion contributor, USA Today: Opinion
Thu, 07/06/2017 - 2:00am

We spend more to subsidize 7 million of the highest income homeowners than to help 55 million of the lowest income renters. That's backwards.

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