Ohio’s Warren Davidson Wants to End Housing for People with HIV

metroweekly.com:

deadline for Congress to pass funding bills to avoid a government shutdown fast approaches, congressional Republicans are pointing to specific programs they would like to see razed to reduce spending significantly.One of those — U.S.

Rep. Warren Davidson (R-Ohio) — knows exactly what he’d like to cut.Davidson, who represents a conservative suburban district in southwest Ohio just outside of Cincinnati, proposed an amendment to cut $505 million from the Housing Opportunities for People with AIDS Program, which helps people living with HIV to find stable housing.“AIDS is a horrific disease.

And we have lots of horrific diseases in our country, but we don’t have programs for everybody that gets a disease,” Davidson said in a floor speech last week explaining his amendment. “We don’t have programs specifically for people that get cancer, for example.”He continued, “We have programs for AIDS because when AIDS was first spreading, people didn’t understand it.

They thought it was spread, you know, like a contagion, that you could get it just because you lived in the same housing development as someone else.