thethen we will discuss u.s. nuclear weapons arsenal. and how emily belz states are raising the minimum age for marriage. ♪ host: good morning. today is saturday, august 12, 2017. many places, the american dream of owning a home is dying. home prices across the country keep climbing, pushing homeownership out of reach for many first-time buyers and lots of middle-class americans. an uptick in home prices combined with slow wage growth spells extra trouble for those looking for a place to call home. is soaring, too. is affordable housing a problem

in your community? if it is, give us a call. if you live in the eastern central time zones, 202-748-8000 mountain pacific time zones, 202-748-8001. if you are looking for housing, call 202-748-8002. we are on social media as well. you can find us on twitter and facebook. good morning. escalating tensions with north korea -- for right now, back to our question about affordable housing. 20 least affordable cities in the country are located in just three states. california, new jersey and florida. only bloomington, indiana, ranked 14th, stops these three

states from taking all 20 spots. it is not just rich cities. often grabbed the headlines. the average renter is paying month.per in new jersey, renters pay only $500 less than san francisco. 29 takes a look at where there are affordable homes. we have to catch up to the website once it loads.

according to the national low income housing coalition, full-time worker earning minimum wage can of or a one-bedroom rental home in only 12 counties. all 12 are located in arizona, oregon and washington state could all three states have set their minimum wage higher than the federal level. the president of the national agenciestate housing says this -- http://twitter.com/cspanw[video] >> nearly half of all renters pay an excessive share of their income for housing and the crisis is most acute for the poorest households. we have a severe shortage of affordable rental homes. are more thanere 11 million extremely low income renter households. only 4 million rental homes are available to them.

if this shortage continues to grow as hundreds of thousands of new renter households entered the market each year while we lose countless affordable homes to conversion and obsolescence, the housing crisis impacts working families, seniors, people with disabilities and so much more. those living in high-cost cities, suburban neighborhoods and rural communities, coastal seattle -- low income households in utah also struggled to find affordable housing. inr 58,000 rental households my state pay more than half their income for housing. we have a shortage of 38,000 homes that are affordable and available to the extremely low income households. we are not unique. every state confronts this challenge. this crisis will only get worse unless we act. if current rent and income burdencontinue, the

will reach nearly 15 million nationwide by 2025 that is a 25% increase. host: we have our first tweet of the morning here. nicole writes -- we have joe calling in from georgia. good morning, joe. caller: good morning. i been calling c-span for 30 years. we have a meeting every saturday and i'm going to put that on the table to discuss affordable housing. we want to fire mcconnell and ryan. they've been in congress for too long. i don't think we have any major i haven't at least, heard about it, but we will certainly put that on the topics to discuss with conservative

leaders this morning. we feel like writing and mcconnell need to go -- we want to encourage young people. we will definitely put your subject on the table this morning at our meeting of conservative leaders. affordability is not an issue. what about availability? has notthe availability come up at one of our meetings. i think it is available. i think low interest rates will contribute to it. if you get this budget under control, that would help lead to lower interest rates. where i live, i haven't heard of any problem. we will definitely put it on the

table for today. host: matthew is calling from vancouver, washington. advocate --s a big oregon is a 15 minute drive away. in portland, around the late 1970's, they started buying all the low income housing. city --lopers in the and the city were buying the low income housing. the people in the low income housing became homeless. that's what has been going on. they've been taking all the low income housing away. now, they realize there's a huge need. we have the highest per capita homeless problem. they started blaming the homeless for being homeless.

that her found out homeless person, it takes $20,000 in state money for all the different things to take care of them. whereas if you just give them a room, a key to a studio apartment, it would maybe cost $6,000 a year per person. they would be saving tons of money that way. 80% of the homeless become self-sufficient on their own in the year. now, they are starting to build buildings -- we have all this federal money to help the homeless now. they are starting to build buildings instead of issuing vouchers. just give them vouchers for rent ns ofad of spending to money building these buildings. there's collusion between city hall and developers to take away this housing. that is matthew calling

with a view from washington state. let's go to atlanta, georgia, where michelle is on the phone. she is looking for a home. caller: it's horrible. i've been looking for housing for the past 3-4 months. i currently have a city of atlanta housing voucher. host: how did you get the voucher? caller: basically, i was on a waiting list two years ago. me off the waiting list. i was able to find housing. it was hard at that time also. two years later, i decided i my voucher tosfer another jurisdiction where i could be closer to it together hospital because i'm a cancer patient. when i did that, i found absolutely no housing.

place i called come every real estate agent, everybody said we don't accept anything from the government. we don't accept government housing, we don't accept state vouchers. every place i called. i'm talking nearly 100 different property owners to apartment complexes. i basically transferred my voucher back to the city of atlanta to see if i had a better chance. i still have no housing and i'm a cancer patient, so i'm not going to go back to work. it makes it really hard for me. i was basically working on a letter to my governor and councilman to get attention brought to this and i happened to be watching the tv in my hospital bed.

host: what are you doing in the meantime? caller: i live with a friend of mine. i just happened to get sick in the past couple of days and ended up in the hospital. right now, i can't even look for affordable housing. host: we wish you all the best and blessings to you. let's go to jean calling from maryland. how's it going? caller: it's going ok. disability --, no in my area, everybody seems to from thecher that is state if they have a disability or pretend to have a disability. poorthose who are working for and single women, we don't get any help whatsoever. i would like to make a point that the government helps us with vouchers -- they don't even

r men in this area. some any people are sleeping on -- so manynches people are sleeping on the park benches. i have just a little bit of income. right now, i'm between jobs. i have to stay with family. otherwise, i would be on the park bench also. i'm at the mercy of everyone's kindness. host: can i ask what you do for a living? caller: i was working with a company called connected living contracted. i had to get that job off craigslist. contracted to the

department of housing also true that company -- through that company. i help people get vouchers and i got nothing. every two weeks, i got about $700. you can't live in the city with that kind of money. i'm left to go overseas or trying.e -- i will keep thank you. host: let's go to upstate new york where we have ken on the line. caller: i have been watching c-span for over 20 years. one of the reason i watch, the freedom from commercials. i tip my hat to the fellow from the barbecue. we live in a very diverse

immunity in catskill. -- community in catskill. housing is impossibly expensive along the hudson. here in catskill, it is basically a blue-collar community with a very interesting population. we are 100 miles north of new york city. that is the name of the game. the further you get from a large city, the easier it is to afford. the home we had before this, we bought for $65,000. the major problem is wages. wages are deplorably low, even in new york. if you can make $12 an hour, it is miraculous.

i will leave it at that. thank you. host: massachusetts, joel is calling from raleigh, massachusetts. caller: good morning. am a c-span watcher for the last one in five years. , the housing area prices are through the roof. .hey continue to expand my experience has been, before i got married, i moved to the boston area with a third-floor flat 80 miles from where i work. now, i am married and i'm closer to work. it costs a lot of money. agents, butestate their job is to gouge as much as possible.

my wife had a house in affluentetts in an community and we blair house on the market -- put our house on we market and in three days, had three offers above our -- real estate are using that to keep a grip on what they make. host: richard is a landlord. hey, richard. caller: i am a landlord here in minneapolis. the city makes it tough on landlords to rent to people with issues. some of the homeless have other issues. -- iff the richer people

you are a landlord in minneapolis and you've got somebody smoking marijuana in your apartment and the city sense police -- sends police in a marijuana, they call it problem property. you get two problem property designations on your house, you lose your license. you have to fix your place up real good to attract better clientele. the city is trying to gentrify the poor right out of the neighborhood. they don't blame the tenant, they blame the landlord. have asame time, they program for homelessness in the county -- the homeless have more issues, so don't rent to them. they are contradicting.

host: we had a caller from atlanta and another from maryland, both of them using vouchers trying to find a place to stay. is that one of the reasons you are outlining? the people with vouchers have more issues like maybe destruction of property or things like that. my experience, the section eight than thepay better regular market. i have houses in a couple of areas. it can be done with section eight vouchers. is very strict. why take the risk of losing your property?

if you get a couple of licenses taken away on your property, you cannot be a landlord in the city . there is a great big risk. time, the city is saying you don't rent to the homeless people. 22 opposing the landlord. my answer to the homeless problem, build more low-cost housing. it doesn't have to be government-subsidized. it can be privately owned. you get housing, the prices will drop because there will be more competition. host: let's go to texas where we have dan on the line. what's your story? caller: hi. first of all, i want to thank you for c-span. host: thank you. robert this tweet from --

from "usa today," some research finds baby boomers aren't going anywhere. the vast majority of those at or near retirement age like where they are. 85% of baby boomers have no plans to sell their home in the next year. 78% --ership has been nearly twice as high as millennials. older age groups have historically moved less frequent lee than younger homebuyers and the trend continues. we are talking about whether the availability of affordable housing is an issue where you live. if you live in the mountain and pacific time zones, call 202-748-8001. if you're looking for housing, call 202-748-8002. if you live in the eastern or central time zones, call 202-748-8000.

mcdonald, the national association of home builders chairman explaining the importance of a tax credit to pay for low income housing construction. [video clip] >> there is no magic wand to a race the basic development costs. these regulatory compliance codes determine what is needed to make a project viable. if we want to increase the supply of affordable housing, it is financially impossible to do so without the tax credit. the most successful program in of nations history -- part the success is the advantage of creating it in the tax code. inestors have the confidence the particularly of the tax code and tax credit committees

outperform the other sector. it lacks the resources to keep up with demand. without a sizable investment in our housing stock, we risk a worsening problem. solid. demands remain absent new supply, this demand will increase rent. recognize theo important role of portable housing plays in our communities. i see how affordable housing for ourcommunities tenants. . it starts with access to stable and affordable housing. host: we have this facebook post from sarah kirkpatrick. she writes

we have tom calling in from baltimore, maryland. caller: i want to get right to the bottom of the issue. it actually affects not only housing but so many of the things in our society -- that is lawlessness. thenot talking about citizenry of this country, i'm talking about those who have usurped power. those who hold elected office and don't even know what they are entitled to do and not to do. let's take health care real quick. this is a quick example and then i will move on to housing. there's no authority from the federal government to endeavor upon a national health plan. these powers were reserved for the people in the states. it is a state issue.

they are not following the rules. as far as housing is concerned, again, let's look at the criminality within our own government. housing authorities across this , that, we can look to hud has been losing your after your everyone can look at the public information about how the hud loans have been robbed and looted by the criminals and government. the housing authority's supper -- the housing authorities suffer. , if they actually own their homes, should not have to pay rent year after year after year in the form of taxation on that property. that's part of your ability to survive and the government -- youits population

might know who warren buffett is. his father was a four term commerc congressman. he says this -- that's what we are seeing right now. the federal reserve has stockholders. we don't know who the stockholders are. people think when a government audits its books that it's clear and everything is on the up and up. what they don't realize is a regular audit is just adding board. to its . we need to have a forensic audits. that will spot the criminality. i pray that one day we will wake up. host: we have another tweet here --

that is a view from florida. we have jesse calling from philadelphia, pennsylvania. caller: good morning. i have to get this off my chest. that the united states of america does not take care of the homeless. and people with disabilities in this country. there's a lot of people here who cannot afford homes. they are out there in the street because they are ill. a vietnam veteran and my daughter has a disability. she was born with mental problems. i've been trying to get her

housing. she's having difficulty. these people getting all these benefits and housing that don't deserve it -- the people in america who are disabled and have mental problems have some difficulty finding help. i also have section eight -- if it wasn't for my section eight and my daughter living with me, she would be living in the streets because she wouldn't have any help. thank god that i do have housing for her. we are struggling to get her where she needs to be. host: how old is your daughter? caller: she is 23. she cannot work because she was born with these disabilities. . for years, i've been trying to

get her to work, but she has issues. and person is physically mentally disabled, how can they get into affordable housing? many of these people cannot articulate their demands or their needs. bit ofe played that sound earlier of granger mcdonald talking about a tax credit to expand low income housing. there's also a bill floated on capitol hill from senator maria cantwell, senator warren hatch -- senatorron wyden ron wyden. it expands the housing credit incomendardizes eligibility for rural properties.

this is making its way through the hill. one of the many things that on toers are working address this problem. .assachusetts, we have jezebel -- jezebela. caller: affordable housing is a huge problem in our country and in massachusetts. what i'm seeing here in west nd, there is a massive effort to keep affordable housing out. -- for example, article towe had an

land and quickly turn it into conservation land to make sure housing couldn't be built there. it is unbelievable. this year we have a beautiful property, a historic property. they give it to these people -- i think it's $300,000 for a historic preservation restriction. and conservation restriction so that this huge farm could never, ever have affordable housing on it. by the way, it's a beautiful town. ashave one third of our town conservation land. here we are just minutes away with a industrial town huge homeless problem of its own. westonthink towns like

which are frequently found on the outskirts of big cities like boston have a responsibility. our state is called a commonwealth and for good reason. i really wonder why the state government has not come down on us like a ton of bricks for doing what our local government is doing. they are basically working with 40b, sinced chapter the 60's said he don't have 10% affordable housing, developers can come in and put 20 units on the lot next door used to have one house and there's nothing you can do about it. zoning laws don't apply. the town has been fighting these things all over because we have not had a good comprehensive policy. we have not been doing all we

should be doing. i just think it is not just my town. there is this attitude of keep them out of here, let's just in my token number and neighborhood down the street they actually have a sign in front of the house, "this is built by community preservation funds." they wish the snowplow put take care of the thing. like the-- it is tokenism of it is gross. we are not dealing with this major problem and i'm glad they have a chance to vent about it. it has been bothering me for a really long time. .ost: that is isabella we have a tweet here who writes,

"lots of people are for affordable housing as long as it is not in their neighborhood." let's go back to the phones. joe from holland, michigan. caller: good morning and thank you for c-span. i want to give my opinion. i feel it we are overlooking what happened 7, 8 years ago when housing costs went up. the average in my family from $700 to 1100 practically overnight. insuranceaffordable -- when we had affordable insurance, many people had to figure out how they were going to compensate. the bills where there. the finances they had to come up with an housing went up overnight. thes hard to build because

price of buildings are up 20%. pretty hard. chuck from west virginia? caller: i really appreciate the conversation today. i agree there is a real need for people who can't afford housing to get it. on the other side, my wife grew up in an area where it was a modest area but very safe. she could just play all day long growing up. hud housingrecently has come in. there has been a massive drug problem and houses have been broken into. basically the whole area has been destroyed by this.

i don't know if i have any answer. i'm just trying to describe the situation. i want people who needed to have housing, yet i see at the same can ruinn hud housing a neighborhood. observation and that's the problem here. thank you. host: kelly from akron, ohio. good morning. caller: good morning. i was calling about people that own their houses and work many years and become chronically ill like myself. there is no programs in our area to help us keep our houses. but iore i have a house may become homeless eventually from my illness. --re is nothing to help you there is nothing to help us with the housing.

is there any solution for ohio? host: what is your story? caller: i have a chronic disease. it is very rare. hospital17 years at a at akron general cleveland clinic. i became sick, chronically sick in the last four months. i don't have any income coming. my house is at jeopardy for me to lose it. linda fromgo to truman, arkansas. caller: i have a concern about homeless people not getting affordable housing. it seems to me these affordable housing projects are actually -- aren't they not welfare programs for real estate developers to

get funding to develop these housing projects? they don't really help homeless people. they don't help that women in phoenix who had her children -- they were living in a hole in the ground while she worked as a nurse's aide. host: i'm not familiar with that story. caller: people need money for housing. i'm not sure these affordable programs are effective enough. host: what is that even truman, arkansas? was a situation like? caller: it is really good. most of the town is on public housing and the housing is really nice. there is even surplus housing in the towns in the vicinity.

host: let's go to colorado springs, colorado. brian on the line. caller: good morning. i have quite an opinion on the housing problem. first of all my family have been landlords since the 1960's from guam,, -- hawaii, california. most of the renters don't deserve housing. they don't ahead and take care of their properties in the abuse the property. by speaking on behalf of most landlords. my wife and i put a program together where we took the homeless people off the streets, we put them in one of our apartment units, and we gave them jobs. many of those tenants would abuse the apartment. they would steal from the company. agoecided about four years

one of our apartment buildings was classified unlivable because a meth lab was built in it 10 years prior to buying it. we were forced to close down. we decided to never rent out again. we just declared bankruptcy. my older brother in hawaii still has rental property, that he will not rent to the poor because they destroy the properties. my daughter, we sent her to switch it when five years ago. she came home and said it's amazing. the european people take such good care of their properties. they value it. here in america most of the lower income people do not take care of their properties. that's why a lot of people have gotten away from affordable housing to rent to low income. host: we have a tweet.

"section eight is intended to make housing affordable in neighborhoods that low-income families would otherwise be able to afford. the practical consequence of section eight is taxpayers subsidize landlords so they can collect rent they would be unable to collect. another practical consequence of section eight is it undermines property values of homeowners in the neighborhood." let's go back to the phones. james, a landlord in columbus, ohio. caller: good morning and thank you for c-span. i think you have a marvelous program. we do have an affording housing issue here. i have been here about 20 years from upstate new york. i have some real estate. i live in an inner-city neighborhood. i will say a couple of things. it's probably a multifaceted problem. number one we have a lot of affordable housing in intercity columbus, perhaps too much.

i'm not sure it's affordable. some of the other neighborhoods probably are more affluent could share and take more that. i also think the regulations often times in terms of the building code, standards are so high the property is very expensive which is driving up rent for lower income people. i is a believe we have a court system that encourages in some respects oaks not really -- folk s not really behind in the rent because they are investing property and they need to be able to have some relief. i think it's probably threefold. number one, communities they don't have affordable housing today probably should bear some of the burden. we have a court system that encourages less than basically good tenant behavior and responsibility, which hurts the incentive to create more. i think we have a city where you have codes that create a rich type of poverty.

places and they say you need to comply with the aea and have this and this and this. you have someone that discovers lead paint in the house that is 40 years old, they will say you don't have to pay rent. if the multidimensional issue we are confronted with in this country. that's really all i have to say. i think we need more of it and that we need diversity and inner cities and housing for folks that are more affluent. thank you for taking my call. host: james with insight from columbus, ohio. anne from mansfield. good morning. caller: good morning. thank you for taking our call this morning. i have a slight problem. we have housing available but we are not allowed to acquire it. on numerous occasions -- i recently gotten gauged. i am 65.

my future husband is 69. we have been trying to find homes we can afford. i'm disabled and we are on lower income. they have allowed these houses and the pre-foreclosure acquired by. hud.i -- acquired by there are several homes sitting here for years that we can get into and fix it up and make it viable. they are just letting it go to ruin. i don't understand the banks buying back the property and selling them at higher prices so we can't afford them. there are many of us who want a home that we will take care of even though we are considered low income. i don't understand why we are not allowed to do that and why the taxes on the properties are so extremely high. that is my concern. i don't know why we can't make these homes usable homes.

there are people willing to buy them. host: another tweet from jan. "i'm sure there are good and that renters no matter what the income level is. or doescause one is po not mean they are a slob." good morning, elizabeth. caller: howard you? -- how are you? -- we were low income. we bought a home that was in real bad shape. we made it a home. now we have millions of elderly people in nursing homes. one is my mother. she is paying out-of-pocket $6,000 a month for minimal care

in a nursing home. host: say that again. nursing month for home care? and in medicaid would kick in? caller: yeah. medicaid. i would like our legislators and politicians to pay more at theon to those folks age they are that need a lot of help rather than people out here who could get a job and pay for rent. it infuriates me. in a lot of these divisions, these apartment complexes in my area, every day there is shootings, there is drive-bys. white and black, not just one color. i think that they need to pay more attention to the poor elderly citizens that can hardly

afford to be in these nursing homes. host: how does it make you feel your mom is forced to spend her savings in that way? caller: it is really opened my eyes to know what is coming for me. horrible the care they get. its minimal. month for a little bed and three meals and minimal care. these people out here whine. i need subsidized housing. get out there and do like they did. butt.r -- bust your get your families together. quit having all these children. white, black, whatever. care about yourself first in your community.

it really makes me mad what i'm seeing today. and trump can't help us. we're too far into this thing. is a mess in america. everybody wants freebies but nobody wants to get out there buttust there but -- their and do anything about it. host: wanda would agree. "blame game. is everyone else's fault. i started at minimum wage at $3.50 an hour. i did not want the iphone, always wanting the newest and shiny as. -- shiniest. i saved and saved. everyone only wants to blame." fayetteville, dr. alina. we have -- fayetteville, north carolina. we have heard on the line. caller: i'm 70 years young.

i had a stroke in january. with a lady was talking about with nursing homes, i had to go to rehab in a nursing home. i could only stay 20 days because i'm on medicare. i worked hard for years and was a single parent. i thank the lord i was able to work until i became so sick i was disabled. i have been living in hud housing for 17 years. we are very neat and clean here. we have inspections. we pass inspections. trust me, we look like people that don't know this is hard housing thinking we are living in rich housing. withent being thrown in people that don't care how they live and would not care if they were millionaires, they would be

a slob. i saidcause we are poor, just because we are poor does not mean we can't be neat and clean. and they had neat and clean homes. they own their own homes. they work hard. and i worked hard. -- i'm think that we do have put housing but everybody is not on drugs. everybody does not have illegitimate children. everybody is not unclean. anywhere i've ever lived in my what i left it better than i found. i am a neat and clean person, trust me. more people need housing. we need nice housing. i'm thankful this hud housing has been kept up. if you came here and saw it, you

would not know it was hard housing. -- hud housing. host: if you were not there, we would live? caller: i lived with my son and his wife for a while until i found this. i was on a waiting list. that's not the easiest way to live. it is better you have your own place. night, soeep well at i'm up and down all night long. that would disturb them. it just works out better for me to have this apartment. we have the manager that runs this apartment and her husband are a plus. they take care of whatever we need. we have cameras. it is safe for seniors.

no matter what you live in, the will have crime -- you will have crime. even rich people have crime, it's just covered up. i'm thankful i do have this housing here. and we need more of them. in where we are andclass slobs and on drugs have a bunch of illegitimate children. my children are legitimate, trust me. host: let's head back to washington state paris have te -- where we have ted. caller: good morning. i would like to thank you guys for c-span, and say hallelujah to that lady. host: go ahead. caller: hello?

go ahead. she was right on and what she is saying. that everybody is a slob. i was a fireman for 30 years. i have been in people's homes that everything was a mess. to talking from doctors down pigs. an other people are in great homes. as far as here in the seattle area, the problem we have is a taxes on everything. taxes are driving people, the older people out of their homes. they are people that built houses 30 years ago along the water. their taxes now are more than their payments ever were, any are going up and driving the elderly out. that lady saying $4000 or $5,000 a month.

try $15,000 a month year for care in a nursing home. all these things are being done by taxes. is they kept wages too low for all these years. now we have all these people they are looking at. we need to keep land for farming in order to feed the people. we can't keep doing this. we have to learn how to build housing that is affordable and educate the people on how to take care of it. florida.n ellis park, shannon on the line. caller: good morning again thank you so much for bringing up this topic. i work as a senior advisor. i think hundreds of calls every month.

statistically there are 10,000 people every day turning a. -- 80. 100,000 people a day turning 65. the senior market is so outlandish. the minimum cost for assisted living, not counting california, these coast or new york, $3500 a month without any care level. dementia care at minimum is $6,000. $10,000 toes, $15,000. we have an epidemic, a disaster happening in this country. affordable housing for seniors who are 65 or over 80 is just not there. i'm not talking about the ones that have other mental issues or veterans. wages of eight dollars,

$10, $12 an hour. kids that are taking and their families to take care of them because they can't afford a nursing home or assisted living community. host: you are a senior advisor. with the you advise people to do who find themselves in this situation? caller: here is what i tell them. if i had that answer, i would be wealthy. there is no help. if the family can't take them in and they have two or three kids they are trying to put through school or raise and the of working for $13, $20 an hour, how can they afford to bring in their seniors? their mother, father, grandmother, grandfather and take care of the 24 hours a day? it affects their health. they have to quit their jobs. how can i get paid to take care

of my mom and dad? they can't, unless they go to work for a home care agency. home care is $20 to $35 an hour in this country. we have a disaster on our hands. we have an epidemic of dementia and alzheimer's. that's not counting the other illnesses. there is no place for them. there is not enough who can afford -- the majority of people who cannot afford $3000 minimum. that's without assistance, medication, or if they have dementia. our homeless population is going to explode. i have been crying on the phone. i'm going to be on the street. with it a sacramento. dee is calling from sacramento.

caller: good morning. i'm calling about affordable housing. i have been trying to get care since last october. mild heart attacks in several strokes since then. it is ridiculous. i make about $20,000 a year. they start at $2000. it's ridiculous. to hire somebody to help me, that sorts it $25 an hour. you have to keep them for four hours. you go to the store. there are all these young people on food stamps and welfare and everything. you are buying a minimum amount of groceries and they are walking away with all sorts of stuff. it is aggravating and upsetting. on low income and i'm not a slob either. host: what you doing for housing now?

month andpaid $1250 a it's one room, a studio apartment. i lived by myself. i'm trying to hire someone to help me, which i just got out of the hospital on monday. it is really very hard and difficult. i don't know what else to do. i understand that lady is saying. i cried. they say we can help you, we don't have anything. i would like to see them do something about it. host: we wish you all the best. let's head to hartford, connecticut. diane, good morning. caller: good morning. i'm retired. i worked 32 years at my job.

i retired. i cannot even get the housing authority. they turned me down. i could not find a house to live in. connecticut most properties do not include utilities. cars homeless, living in my after i retired. then i decided to come to hartford because they had a lot of problems. the day i apply for an apartment i got it, including my he and hot water. pay $590 a month including heat and hot water. most of the towns in connecticut do not include heat and hot

water. they also have a waiting list. you go to the housing authority, all the apartments are on a waiting list. it was very hard for me. for one year i was homeless living in my car after i retired. then i decided to come here. i've been here for 14 years but is not easy when you are retired and you can't find anything because a waiting list or you can't afford it. granddaughters. they have a beautiful apartment. it is clean. not everybody is dirty. they have a beautiful apartment, but i cannot get one. i could document they have. i still can't get it because of the waiting list.

host: we have another tweet. people"e live the "lazy who can't find a formal housing include teachers, police officers, etc." our last call comes from alfred from bronx, new york. caller: good morning, sir. thank you for taking my call. i'm a real estate agent. on trying to help some old people over here with their housing. there are no programs for them. rent is very high in the bronx. one-bedroom is often $1400. i see lots of young people coming in with vouchers. the next day they move in. the only way to get the doctor is to be in a shelter. too many are in the shelter

situation. making phone calls to police, get a restraining order stacyt a boyfriend, months in a shelter and get a voucher. and they move in these. some landlords don't take them. then i say i can see the boyfriend or husband or ex-husband is living with them with a voucher. host: that is offered from the bronx. we will continue this conversation later in the program. it is hurricane season. the flood insurance program is $25 billion in the red. we will talk to ike brannon about how the program can be saved or if it should be saved. we'll beaaron mehta here to talk about how the pentagon is poised to respond if there is an escalation with north korea. stay with us. ♪

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