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[…] qualify for a voucher can’t get one. But that’s not the only problem. Universal Housing Vouchers: A Three-Part Series This is the second installment in a series of articles about […]

[…] a precarious predicament if everyone who qualified for a housing voucher got one? Universal Housing Vouchers: A Three-Part Series This is the first in a series of articles where we […]

[…] Voucher Program — was launched in the Nixon administration. Section 8 gives low-income families housing vouchers so they can rent apartments in the private market and perhaps escape some of […]

[…] to buy. Eligon focuses on one significant obstacle, the federal Section 8 program, which provides vouchers (sort of like food stamps for housing) to low-income families to help them pay […]

[…] offered a special type of housing voucher called a Tenant Protection Voucher, or TPV. The vouchers are primarily used to help people relocate when the status of their federally subsidized […]

[…] homelessness for transition-age foster youth in which HUD would tap existing funds to provide on-demand vouchers and assistance for foster youth who needed stable housing. After reviewing the proposal, HUD […]

[…] crumbling public housing tenements in the mid-1970s and focused on providing low-income renters with housing vouchers and other need-based (rather than supply-based) assistance, it’s failed to provide enough funding to […]

A: So far, researchers haven’t found that an increase in vouchers by itself causes rents to rise.

[…] hours a week that spring to protect herself and others who rely on Section 8 vouchers to stay in their homes. “When I found out my Section 8 was threatened, […]

[…] have to pay $10 million to settle a lawsuit brought by holders of Section 8 vouchers, a federally funded payment system that allows low-income people to rent in the private […]

HUD provides eligible families with tenant-based vouchers, which may be used to rent any home a family finds that meets program requirements. When market rents increase rapidly and fair market […]

[…] than a housing solution for households with the most serious housing problems. Why do housing vouchers better address the housing problems of the poor than an EITC increase? Because housing […]