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HOUSTON (AP) — The city
ousing Authority, switching to an
mtomated system, discovered it had
leprived about 1,000 poor Houston
amilies of federal rent subsidies be
muse of a record-keeping error.
Housing Authority officials be-
ieved 95 percent of the available
using subsidies were being used
»hen the actual number was 85 per-
:ent.
The U.S. Department of Housing
ind Urban Development this month
:ited the authority for failing to use
itleast 95 percent of its subsidies.
HUD recently showed Austin at
0 percent utilization; Dallas at
)8.5 percent; San Antonio at 100
aercent; Little Rock, Ark., at 100
percent; and New Orleans at 84 per
cent.
Housing officials have launched a
iriveto increase the number of fam-
receiving rent subsidies and to
correct other problems cited by
HUD.
The subsidy program is financed
})’ HUD and is managed by the
Housing Authority. The program is
considered one of the fastest and
easiest ways to make housing avail-
to low-income families,
o qualify, a family of four cannot
arn more than $ 19,200 a year.
Under the program, no more
ban 30 percent of a family’s income
can be spent on rent payments. The
iubsidy covers the difference be-
ween the family’s share of the rent
ind the amount charged by the
andlord.
The authority is scrambling to use
as many of the subsidies as possible.
In October 1985, the Housing
Authority had 17,000 families on a
vaiting list for rent subsidies.
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SINTON (AP) — County Com
missioner Pedro G. “Pete” Rodri
guez has ended a four-day hunger
strike he began to protest a dispute
with the county auditor.
Rodriguez began his hunger
strike Thursday morning on the
front lawn of the San Patricio
County Courthouse. That was after
County Auditor Michael Weisman
refused to pay overtime to some of
Rodriguez’s employees or to allow
the commissioner to transfer money
within his budget.
The county commissioner ended
his fast Monday afternoon, follow
ing a meeting between Weisman,
Rodriguez, County Commissioner
Nina Trevino and 36th District
Judge Ronald Yeager.
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