The American people are fed up with living with their couch cleaners and want to know why the government is still letting them keep living in their houses.
While it’s clear that the American people don’t want to live in their homes anymore, the federal government is allowing it.
“The people of this country are fedup with living in cramped living situations,” said Rep. Dave Camp (R-MI), chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
“This is a situation that is being exacerbated by the collapse in housing prices.”
The committee is scheduled to hold a hearing on the issue tomorrow, and while the issue is still being investigated, the hearing will include testimony from an industry representative who will detail the effects of couch cleaners on the environment and the lives of the American taxpayer.
While the chair of the committee is not expecting the House to vote on the couch cleaner issue this week, he is hopeful that the committee will move forward with its inquiry and that the federal housing agency will be forced to explain why it continues to allow couch cleaners to live here.
Camp says the couch cleaners are taking advantage of a loophole in federal regulations that allow the government to subsidize couch cleaners in certain situations.
If the couch cleaning industry is forced to pay for its air pollution costs, the government will have to fund the couch cleanup, Camp said.
A coalition of business groups, the Center for Responsible Livable Communities, and others have said that couch cleaners who live in federally subsidized housing are harming the economy and hurting families.
The group said that if the government were to subsidizing couch cleaners, it would have to consider how much of the couch cleanliness benefits the public.
Under the government’s current regulations, the couch cleansing industry has to pay a fixed amount for air pollution and for the cost of cleaning up the apartment, according to the coalition.
According to the American Association of Realtors, the average home value in the U.S. is $325,000.
In order to qualify for the government subsidy, the sofa cleaning industry has had to spend at least $3,000 per month on the air pollution.
That means that couch cleaning companies that make up to $2 million a year have to spend about $2.3 million a month to clean up their properties.