Massachusetts: Vanguard of affordable housing, rights of working women

[Max Sawicky]

Not as crazy as it sounds, actually.  Presently I
believe inmate populations count as a local jurisdiction's
population for receiving certain grants-in-aid from the
Feds.  Course, the inmates never see a nickel of the
money.  Low-income housing factors are also used in
some grant formulas, so might as well count jails
too.  Course, the inmates will never see any of
that money either.  It's possible that jurisdictions
with prisons tend to be poor, so the implied targeting
might not be bad.

mbs

"Bill would label jails low-income housing"

by Rick Klein, [Boston] Globe Staff

"It's housing all right, and it sure is affordable--at least to those who 
live there.