The income line for assistance rises to 100 percent of area median income
What the document says“by striking ``households that qualify as low-income families'' and inserting ``families with a household income that does not exceed 100 percent of the median family income of the area, as determined by the Secretary''; and”
The section amends section 214(2) of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act to replace the reference to low-income families with families whose household income does not exceed 100 percent of area median family income as the Secretary determines. It makes matching changes in section 271(c), with adjustments for smaller and larger families.
What the document actually says“by striking ``households that qualify as low-income families'' and inserting ``families with a household income that does not exceed 100 percent of the median family income of the area, as determined by the Secretary''; and”
Words about low income families come out of an older law. New words go in. They cover families whose income is at or below the middle income for the area.
The middle income where a family lives is the yardstick. The old test used a lower line. The new one reaches more families.
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