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The original documents are located in Box D9, folder "Ford Press Releases - Rent Subsidy,
1965" of the Ford Congressional Papers: Press Secretary and Speech File at the Gerald R.
Ford Presidential Library.
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Digitized from Box D9 of The Ford Congressional Papers: Press Secretary and Speech File at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
CONGRESSMAN
NEWS
GERALD R. FORD
HOUSE REPUBLICAN LEADER
RELEASE
FOR RELEASE AT 1 P.M. EDT
October 25, 1965
President Johnson's harsh criticism of Congress for shutting off funds
for his pay-your-neighbor's-rent scheme brings the major 1966 election
issue into the glare of the public spotlight.
Republicans welcome the opportunity to debate this issue in every
precinct of the Nation.
The President is frustrated because the Congress saw through his
radical, revolutionary rent subsidy gimmick.
When the President charged that false allegations defeated the rent
subsidy program, he pointed his finger of accusation at one of his own
the Federal Housing Agency.
For it was this Agency's proposed regulations which helped to torpedo
the President's scheme.
Housing agency regulations of Sept. 28 ripped away the false label of
so-called "low income housing" and revealed:
1. Proposed rent payments would be paid to families with annual incomes
of up to $8,100. and this would not include extra family income.
2. The Federal Government under the LBJ proposal could pay up to 70%
of monthly rental for families having up to $25,000 in
personal assets.
- more -
CONGRESSMAN
NEWS
GERALD R. FORD
HOUSE REPUBLICAN LEADER
RELEASE
(Rent subsidy) Page 2
Under the plan, a family with four children could have a subsidized
four-bedroom apartment, or better accommodations than most Americans
who pay their own way.
Last week on the eve of final Congressional action on the rent gimmick,
these regulations were suddenly withdrawn by the Federal Housing Agency.
I challenge the President to publicly reveal for the first time the
true maximum income limits under this proposed program.
It is no secret in Washington that some of the most powerful special-
interest groups in the country spent lavishly in a year-long lobbying
effort to ram rent subsidy through Congress.
When the program was sidetracked, it was not the Nation's poor who
suffered, Rather, the big contractors, the big property owners, the big
lending institutions were denied multi-million-dollar windfalls.
The President accuses the Republican-led action against the rent
subsidy plan as being based on "fear and mistrust." He is absolutely correct.
We not only "fear and mistrust" the grandiose scheme, we pledge to
fight it with considerable Democrat support when the President tries
to push it through Congress next year.
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CONGRESSMAN
NEWS
GERALD R. FORD
HOUSE REPUBLICAN LEADER
RELEASE
FOR RELEASE AT I P.M. EDT
October 25, 1965
President Johnson's harsh criticism of Congress for shutting off funds
for his pay-your-neighbor's-rent scheme brings the major 1966 election
issue into the glare of the public spotlight.
Republicans welcome the opportunity to debate this issue in every
precinct of the Nation.
The President is frustrated because the Congress saw through his
radical, revolutionary rent subsidy gimmick.
When the President charged that false allegations defeated the rent
subsidy program, he pointed his Onger of accusation at one of his own---
the Federal Housing Agency.
For it was this Agency's proposed regulations which helped to torpedo
the President's scheme.
Housing agency regulations of Septo 28 ripped away the false label of
so-called "low income housing" and revealed:
1. Proposed rent payments would be paid to families with annual incomes
of up to $8,100..and this would not include extra family income.
2. The Federal Government under the LBJ proposal could pay up to 70%
of monthly rental for families having up to $25,000 in
personal assets.
- more -
GERALD FORD LIBRARY
CONGRESSMAN
NEWS
GERALD R. FORD
HOUSE REPUBLICAN LEADER
RELEASE
(Rent subsidy) Page 2
Under the plan, a family with four children could have a subsidized
four-bedroom apartment. or better accommodations than most Americans
who pay their own way.
Last week on the eve of final Congressional action on the rent gimmick,
these regulations were suddenly withdrawn by the Federal Housing Agency.
I challenge the President to publicly reveal for the first time the
true maximum income limits under this proposed program.
It is no secret in Washington that some of the most powerful special-
interest groups in the country spent lavishly in a year-long lobbying
effort to ram rent subsidy through Congress.
When the program was sidetracked, it was not the Nation's poor who
suffered. Rather, the big contractors, the big property owners, the big
lending institutions were denied multi-million-dollar windfalls.
The President accuses the Republican-led action against the rent
subsidy plan as being based on "fear and mistrust." He is absolutely correct.
We not only "fear and mistrust" the grandiose scheme, we pledge to
fight it with considerable Democrat support when the President tries
to push it through Congress next year.
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