Session 13 - Housing & Community Development Policies

GREAT!! Reading through this session and the films, I enlighten up some aspects.

I feel as though we live in a society where we hold grudges to people who have committed crimes and simply cannot accept them back into our society even after they have done their time. With MVI organization, they help people move forward with their life and forgive them by allowing them second chances.

What you think is being done about poverty?? 

There are many things that the governments are doing to boost low-income families. For our neighborhoods in need of progress, governments created programs and Housing Acts such as the Home Mortgage Act, the Community Reinvestment Act, and the Community Development Block Grant by cheap payments on housings. Programs like HOPE IV assisted residents by moving families to a better housing in less troubled neighborhoods through the use of Section 8 housing vouchers. With Section 8, it allowed low-income families live in a better neighborhood that is affordable. It’s very important for families to feel safe and serine. Living in a lively, happy neighborhood, children are less prunes to crimes.

Under these programs and other Acts that I have yet mentioned has widely improved many communities and neighborhoods by enriching the vicinity with an uplifting, healthy, and a safe environment for the community.

Though these programs haven’t reached far to its full potential, I believe the government is helping as much as they can. Money is a big issue and with so many issues in our country, the governments are limited to their spending. I believe that if we truly want to help our nation out of poverty, we as people have to get together and get involve with the government to make a change. Otherwise, issues such as poverty can slip away and be ignored.