27.01.2012                      03.Schwat. 5772                      Auschwitz-Gedenk-Tag

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Trajtenberg: New affordable housing requirements are unjust

Sharp attack directed at Housing and Construction Minister Ariel Atias, coming in wake of the publication of new criteria for affordable housing eligibility.

Prof. Manuel Trajtenberg on Thursday slammed the decision to base preference for affordable housing on the number of years that the applicants have been married, calling it a violation of his recommendations and nothing to do with social justice.
"This is a sharp deviation from the committee's recommendations," Trajtenberg said, referring to the committee he had headed that drafted recommendations for social and economic reform. His comments, made at a rabbinical conference at the Ariel Institute, were reported by Radio Kol Hai….