http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/15/opinion/15mon3.html?n=Top/Opinion/Editorials%20and%20Op-Ed/Editorials

This article is about how Congress is taking a different approach to finding low income housing for the nation's neediest families. They will establish a National Housing Trust Fund. Developers that get their funding or grants from the government will be required to set aside a portionate number of units for low income families. What this program would do is help the needy families while they can help themselves. This program provides assistance before they become homeless and require even more public assistance such as Aid to Dependence Children, Welfare, or Medicare. The editorial states "This program would be a vibrant mixed income community," instead of just housing the poor among the poor. By housing the poor among other mixed income residents will demonstrate the difference of having an education, a skilled job or a real chance to excel. The continuation of mixing the poor with the poor have not been successful in the past because it did not provide the poor residents the kind of postive reenforcements they needed to make better lifestyle improvements and choices.