Homestead programs before and after slavery was abolished benefitted only white Americans, Woo said.
The Conservative Party proposes to abolish housing benefit for people under the age of 25.
8.24am: Here are some more quotes from George Osborne, explaining his decision to abolish child benefit for higher-rate tax payers.
Conservative plans to abolish housing benefit for under-21s could force young people into staying with abusive or homophobic families.
He's said that the government will abolish child benefit for all higher-rate tax payers from 2013.
The following day George Osborne made these decisions apparent: he announced a plan to abolish housing benefit for under-25s.
There was speculation it will abolish child benefit for 16 to 19-year-olds, paid to those who stay on in education or training.
Homelessness is sadly becoming a reality for increasing numbers of young people, and plans floated yet again by the prime minister and chancellor this week to abolish housing benefit for under-25s will only make things worse.
Now they will abolish housing benefit for under-25s: two-thirds in receipt are parents, one in 10 are sick or disabled, many have no parents to return to.
George Osborne will have to abolish child benefit for over four million families to meet his commitment to cut welfare spending by £12bn in 2018, his deputy at the Treasury suggested last night.
Indeed, in laying out his plans to abolish housing benefit for under-25s, chancellor George Osborne said: "There are plenty of people listening to this programme who can't afford to move out of their home, but there are people on benefits who can get housing benefit under the age of 25".
