Bureaucracy stands in way of progress

Sunday, June 29, 2003

Monday's meeting in Sikeston involving the city, the county and representatives from the Department of Housing and Urban Development was a lesson is bureaucratic mumbo-jumbo. The city and county are making two requests of HUD. First, both the city and county want to use excess unrestricted reserve funds that they accumulated over a 20-year period to address topics of need within the city and county. And secondly, the two local governments want a 25 percent reduction in Section 8 vouchers to reflect a declining demand for the subsidized housing units.

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