>>Well I as a gov't HUD employee would certainly not redeem a voucher submitted by a grocery store. Obviously voucheres could only be accepted by apartment complexes, landlords or mortgage financial institutions. Give me a break. Are you saying welfare recipients do not get a larger stipend in SF than they do in Mayberry, RFD? Even gov't employees get locality adjustments in their salaries based on where their home office is.
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>No, what I meant was are you sure that the vouchers are going to cover the cost of housing.
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>And my point about the larger stipend in SF is that someone has to figure out all this stuff... the federal govt. maybe? So how are we saving money be doing this?

Duh, gee, let's just give a voucher for $25 so they can afford a moving box. Do you have no imagination at all?!? Or do you want me to devise the entire program right here and now. You are being somewhat obtuse here.

I would bet the Census Bureau has avg cost of housing figures. I hear news reports occasionally about avg costs here. There is already a fed program in place. It's called HUD.