It has driven up the cost of land, leading to higher construction costs and making housing assistance all the more necessary.

But it is the first Federal proposal to tie housing assistance to local action.

Many longstanding programs like low-income housing assistance maintain current levels or are cut.

The housing assistance given so far represents only a sliver of what the aid organizations set out to do.

In addition, about 1,000 families or individuals eligible for Federal housing assistance go unhelped.

But she said that he had worked out the terms of his housing assistance from Columbia long before then.

However, by 2005, tax reductions had risen to $120 billion per year, representing nearly 80 percent of all federal housing assistance.

Only one-fourth of working poor families receive any federal housing assistance.

State officials said they did not believe that any families had lost their housing assistance.

Nearly 11 million low-income households that receive no public housing assistance need help.