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shmoel
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uneeq:

Is the Halacha that a community must pay a man’s mortgage or rent (regardless how high it is) with Tzedaka funds or is the Halacha that a community must give Tzedaka to pay the basic necessities (food, etc.) to a man with a home, without asking him to sell his home (or rent less expensive elsewhere) to raise funds himself for his basic necessities? (IOW, is the Tzedaka being given to pay for him to keep his home or to pay for his food.)