All Americans in the middle class can agree that money is hard to come by. The inflation in the economy has really taken its toll our pocketbooks. Unfortunately, the crisis has been more difficult for more than most. Some people who don’t have support financially alone, depend on the government assistance such as food stamps and public housing programs etc. The author is making the audience more knowledgeable of how the government is planning and hoping to raise the monthly minimum rent per month for that using public housing assistance. The audience is intended to for the citizens in need of the assistance. I agree with the author that making housing more expensive will become an inconvenience to some people. Twenty five dollars may not be a lot to someone who works and supports themselves. To someone who is whose main support is the government twenty five dollars is half of rent. Budgets will be adjusted and throw off many people. I don’t feel the author was all that credible. If the author explained the raise in rent or the full in depth plan the government has it would and could have been more put together. The editorial is straight to the point. I didn’t get a lot of background information. I couldn’t really distinguish what side she was taking; I assumed she had taken on the side of not raising the monthly rent. I personally think that the rent should remain where it is. In order to get into a situation where you cannot afford to keep a roof over your head how can anyone think that making it more expensive will do anything but put someone in an even worse situation??

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/22/opinion/keeping-the-poorest-in-housing.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss