Date: June 27, 1987
Subject: New "Homeless" Bureaucracy
Description: Adoption of the conference report on the bill to authorize $443 million in fiscal 1987 and $616 million in fiscal 1988 to provide housing, health, food, job training and other assistance for the nation's homeless, and to set up an interagency homeless council to oversee federal homeless-aid programs. This budget-busting bill federalizes the problem of the homeless by creating a new administrative arm to oversee and control these vast new federal expenditures.
Result: Conference Report Agreed to, 65-8
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