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2. Section 8 (housing) - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

3. Affordable housing in the United States - Wikipedia

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   One such government program is the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program, which the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) uses to provide rental assistance vouchers to eligible low-income households. The program offers financial aid to households with an annual gross income not surpassing 50% of HUD's median income criteria ...

4. Subsidized housing in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Housing vouchers, now one of the primary methods of subsidized housing delivery in the United States, became a robust program in the United States with passage of the 1974 Housing and Community Development Act. [65] The program, colloquially known as Section 8, currently assists more than 1.4 million households. [66]

5. How Section 8 vouchers fail Sacramento’s unhoused ... - AOL

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   51,000 Sacramentans are on a waiting list for 13,000 Section 8 housing vouchers. How Section 8 vouchers fail Sacramento’s unhoused. One woman has waited 14 years for housing.

6. Voucher program is supposed to help poor families rent ... - AOL

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   By the time Kimberly Loper, 28, got the news that she would receive a Section 8 voucher – a coveted federal rental subsidy for low-income families – she had been on the waitlist for three years.

7. Housing nonprofit alleges widespread discrimination against ...

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   The Section 8 program, named after a section of the federal Housing Act, is one of the U.S. government’s most powerful tools to keep rental housing affordable and to fight overcrowding and ...