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Each year, the Congress decides how much should be spent on housing assistance for lower-income persons and how available funds should be allocated among the various assisted housing programs. As background to your consideration of these questions for fiscal year 1980, in my testimony today I will:

• First, review the multiple objectives of housing assistance programs;
  
  
• Second, describe differences in program costs and in the particular needs that each program addresses; and
  
  
• Third, describe several budget and program options, including the President's 1980 funding proposal.

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