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A Columbus resident waiting the longest for a Section 8 voucher has been on the list since 2015. Find out how many people await housing assistance.
Permanent, federally funded housing came into being in the United States as a part of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. Title II, Section 202 of the National Industrial Recovery Act, passed June 16, 1933, directed the Public Works Administration (PWA) to develop a program for the "construction, reconstruction, alteration, or repair under public regulation or control of low-cost housing and slum ...
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Low-income households which need assistance paying monthly rent may qualify for Section 8 Housing. Although 38 million people in the U.S. lived in poverty in 2022, USAFacts noted that just over 9...
The main Section 8 program involves the voucher program. A voucher may be either "project-based"—where its use is limited to a specific apartment complex (public housing agencies (PHAs) may reserve up to 20% of its vouchers as such [11])—or "tenant-based", where the tenant is free to choose a unit in the private sector, is not limited to specific complexes, and may reside anywhere in the ...
Poor People's Campaign in Columbus, May 14, 2018. The first public housing project in Columbus opened in 1940. Poindexter Village, established in the present-day King-Lincoln Bronzeville neighborhood, was also one of the first public housing projects in the United States. The development was successful in keeping families out of homelessness ...
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The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Inspector General released a report Tuesday on Columbus’ housing choice voucher program, often called Section 8. The program for low ...