The Senate bill, unlike the House bill, would not establish a new affordable housing fund.

The payment to the city was to be designated for a housing fund for the homeless.

But the sides remain at loggerheads over who should control the housing fund, the university or a neighborhood group.

Temple officials insist they must maintain authority over the housing fund, since university trustees would raise the money.

In addition, such residences qualify for Federal housing funds that make up the difference between a tenant's contribution and market rent.

In 2006, he co-sponsored a bill to increase the annual $10 million bond to a $50 million affordable housing fund.

The housing fund was approved by voters in 2006.

As a result of these three different situations involving our Section 8 program, nearly $3.5 million in already-appropriated housing funds are wasted yearly.

He would also link Federal housing funds to school desegregation efforts.

It was built with City-State funds, not federal public housing funds.