Government-subsidized public housing

Let's break this down into 2 parts:

Government-subsidized: Meaning that the government provides money to the person(s) running a particular enterprise for the purpose of making things easier for that one person or enterprise.

public housing: housing owned, controlled or heavily regulated by the government with certain goals (primarily  providing a home for the extremely poor).

To call public housing government-subsidized is, in actuality, redundant.  All public housing is, in some way or another subsidized.

== Speech Relevance ==
During '[[A Time For Choosing]]', Reagan relays one of [[Lyndon B. Johnson|Johnson]]'s ideas:
<BLOCKQUOTE>''The President tells us he is now going to start building public housing units in the thousands where heretofore we have only built them in the hundreds. But [[Federal Housing Administration|FHA]] and the [[Veterans Administration]] tell us that they have 120,000 housing units they've taken back through mortgage foreclosures.''</BLOCKQUOTE>
Johnson wanted to spend money to build thousands of housing units when the Federal government already controlled 120,000 through foreclosure.  Reagan is simply pointing out a glaring waste of money.

In talking about the progressive income tax in '[[Encroaching Control]]', Reagan says:
<BLOCKQUOTE>''This is considered such a luxury and yet the New York Supreme Court has recently ruled that a man earning $14,000 a year is so poverty-stricken that he should be entitled to live in government-subsidized public housing.''</BLOCKQUOTE>
I am still looking for the actual court case name, but I have found corroboration on a blog quoting a 1960 newsletter from the First National City Bank of New York (now known as CitiGroup).

== Source Links ==
[http://www.thefreemanonline.org/featured/private-affluence-and-public-poverty/|Record of New York Supreme Court decision regarding housing]
The Reagan Speech Preservation Society

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