I started studying all the accounts listed under the OMB
“Housing Assistance” program. Of the 41 accounts it looks like
there are 36 different accounts for various housing assistance
programs from 2009. That’s right, 36 different accounts. And on
top of that, one of those accounts is “Other Assisted Housing
Programs” meaning that there are even more programs than the 36
listed at the account level.  Of those, most are meant to help
the poor get into some type of housing (as you probably would
expect). In fact, in 2009 only one program’s purpose didn’t have
something to do with that. That was the temporary first-time
home-buyers housing credit. That cost came to just over 9
billion. So of the 51 Billion our government spent on housing
assistance, only 42 billion of it actually goes to help the
poor.  Something I find curious is the 6 accounts related to the
“Rural Housing Service”. Not that they exist or that there’s 6
of them, but the fact that it’s a part of the Dept. of
Agriculture instead of HUD. The Burea