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Housing vouchers
New Biden administration rules aim to unsnarl FEMA relief for disaster victims
Jan 23, 2024
The rules include up-front housing vouchers and broader access to flexible, critical-needs payments in the aftermath of a disaster.
In Dallas, housing voucher holders face limited options when looking for a home
Mar 20, 2023
More than 90% of landlords in the Dallas-Fort Worth metro area won’t rent to people who rely on housing vouchers to pay the rent.
What happens when a family finally gets off the housing voucher waiting list
by
Amy Scott
Mar 23, 2022
Housing vouchers can change recipients' lives but often come after years of waiting.
Most of the nearly 70,000 housing vouchers Congress authorized last year remain unused
Feb 14, 2022
The pandemic response program provided billions of dollars that were meant to help get unhoused people into permanent housing.
Task force aims to get more landlords to accept housing vouchers
by
Amy Scott
Aug 21, 2018
More than 2 million Americans receive rental housing assistance from the federal government through the Housing Choice Voucher Program, also known as Section 8. But new research sponsored by the Department of Housing and Urban Development finds low-income families don’t have much “choice” in where they are able to use their vouchers. In many places, landlords […]