A newly proposed two-year time limit on rental assistance from the federal government puts 32,300 Oklahomans, 18,400 of whom are children, at risk of eviction and homelessness.

The federal government holds that Housing and Urban Development is supposed to be a temporary fix, not a permanent solution. However, housing experts in Oklahoma claim the proposed timeline does not adequately address the housing crisis.

“Putting an arbitrary time limit on rental assistance doesn’t solve the root cause,” said Sabine Brown, Housing Senior Policy Analyst for Oklahoma Policy Institute.

With a worsening national affordable housing and homelessness crisis , Brown said, wage increases are a way to start addressing the housing needs for working families in Oklahoma.

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