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RAD, the public housing Rental Assistance Demonstration is in jeopardy of stalling for want of a simple legislative fix: Passage by Congress of a bill raising the current cap of 60,000 units to at least 185,000, or, better yet, eliminating the cap entirely.

Sometimes a revolution happens not with a blare of trumpets but through a thousand small actions in the same direction. Without actually sensing movement, one suddenly realizes the world has become quite different than it was – and is never going back.