For example, in May 1967, southern and northern conservatives in Congress combined to pass an amendment (by a vote of 232 to 171) discontinuing the Rent Supplement Program. Established in the Housing Act of 1965, this program specifically targeted tenants in public housing and new and rehabilitated Federal Housing Authority–financed accommodations (but not privately owned slum housing). The program had been described by one black poor advocacy group as “one of the very few which offer decent housing to the poor at rents more or less in keeping with their incomes.”
