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In '09 423,000+ children were taken from their families because their parents could not afford a home. But due to new actions under taken by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), they have announced a new program to help public housing authorities reunite foster children with their parents. HUD's budget is about $15million to help reunite these families.The program has been started to both help families rent properties and get back on their feet, while helping out the public housing sector of the government by moving more kids out of the foster system. The system to a cost-benefit-analysis (CBA) approach to making this program possible. Those smart government workers found that it costs the federal government about $58,892 a year per family to place children into foster care. So instead of spending that money for the government to hold on to the displaced kids that they took, they will now donate that money through the new program to help these families get back on their feet. Good thinking.
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