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Social services include cash- and housing-related assistance, case management, treatment for mental health and substance abuse, and legal and budget/credit assistance. Amid food insecurity in Columbus, with several neighborhoods as food deserts , nonprofit organizations operate several no-charge groceries, pharmacies, and stores in the city.
The federal government, through its Low-Income Housing Tax Credit program (which in 2012 paid for construction of 90% of all subsidized rental housing in the US), spends $6 billion per year to finance 50,000 low-income rental units annually, with median costs per unit for new construction (2011–2015) ranging from $126,000 in Texas to $326,000 ...
The National Low Income Housing Coalition President and CEO Diane Yentel said the money from the first round has been distributed and about 60% of communities have programs open, which increases ...
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 ...
The LIHTC provides funding for the development costs of low-income housing by allowing an investor (usually the partners of a partnership that owns the housing) to take a federal tax credit equal to a percentage (either 4% or 9%, for 10 years, depending on the credit type) of the cost incurred for development of the low-income units in a rental housing project.
Franklin County Commissioner Erica Crawley described her pregnancy as "traumatic.". After having to go through an emergency C-section at 34 weeks, she gave birth to twins. But a few weeks ...
Colorado Proposition 123 would decrease TABOR refunds on income tax to provide additional funding for housing affordability programs statewide.
The McKinney–Vento Homeless Assistance Act of 1987 is a United States federal law that provides federal money for homeless shelter programs. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was the first significant federal legislative response to homelessness, [ 3 ] and was passed by the 100th United States Congress and signed into law by President Ronald Reagan on July 22 ...