The Nation - News from Feb. 19, 1985

President Reagan’s proposed moratorium on housing aid for low- and moderate-income people will mean more families living in overcrowded and substandard conditions, the National Leased Housing Assn. said in Washington. “By calling for a moratorium on all assisted housing programs for the next two years, the Administration’s budget shatters the last remaining hopes of hundreds of thousands of low- and moderateincome Americans for obtaining decent, affordable shelter, and effectively ends a 50-year-old national commitment to that goal for all Americans,” said Donna Denman, president of the group.