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| | Tenants to Rudys RGB: Kill the Poor Tax (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) |
 | | The poor tax, or low-rent surcharge, has been imposed in all six years of the Giuliani administration, and its compound effect has contributed to the loss of half of all apartments renting for below $500 since 1993. |
 | | Based on the federal rent-hardship level of 30% of income, a $500 apartment is affordable only to families making at least $20,000 annually, yet the median income in households with rents under $500 is only $15,000. |
 | | For this reason, groups which previously have not been directly involved in Rent Guidelines Board issues, like the Coalition for the Homeless and the Community Food Resource Center, are joining Met Council and other housing advocates in demanding that the RGB kill the poor tax in 2000. |
| www.tenant.net /Tengroup/Metcounc/Jun00/poortax.html (595 words) |
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