The House Transportation, Housing and Urban Development appropriations subcommittee will consider this afternoon its fiscal year 2019 funding bill, which includes $50 million for a new Housing Choice Voucher mobility demonstration. Building on...
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Trump’s Housing Proposals Would Raise Rents on Struggling Families, Seniors, and People with Disabilities
July 12, 2017
President Trump’s 2018 budget could raise rents on up to 4 million low-income households that get federal rental assistance, as our new analysis shows, with some of the largest increases falling on families and individuals that struggle the most to afford housing...
Housing Vouchers Work: Flexible Tool Effective for All Types of People and Places
April 28, 2017
This is the next post in our “Housing Vouchers Work” blog series, which provides the latest facts and figures about the Housing Choice Voucher program, the largest rental assistance program to help families with children, working people, seniors, and people with disabilities afford decent, stable housing.
After 40 years of policy...
Housing Vouchers Work: Helping Vulnerable People Afford Decent, Stable Housing
March 28, 2017
This is the first in our “Housing Vouchers Work” blog series, which provides the latest facts and figures about the Housing Choice Voucher program, the largest rental assistance program to help families with children, working people, seniors, and people with disabilities afford decent, stable housing.
Created in the 1970s, the “Section 8”...
Congress Unanimously Approves Bill to Improve Housing Programs
July 15, 2016
Following a unanimous House vote earlier this year, the Senate unanimously approved housing reform legislation last night that will provide important benefits to low-income families, seniors, and people with disabilities. The President is expected to sign the bill — H.R. 3700, the Housing Opportunity Through...
Promising Housing Ideas in House GOP Poverty Report
June 15, 2016
The House Republican poverty plan includes some problematic changes in low-income housing policy, but also several promising ones to expand opportunity for low-income families...
Working Together, Housing Agencies Can Administer Rental Assistance More Efficiently
April 12, 2016
Nearly 3,800 public housing agencies (PHAs) across the country provide federally funded rental assistance to 3.2 million families through the Housing Choice Voucher and...
Modest Investment in Housing Mobility Could Yield Big Benefits
March 15, 2016
The President’s 2017 budget includes $15 million for a new Housing Choice Voucher Mobility Demonstration to help public housing agencies in ten regions collaborate on initiatives to help low-income families use existing vouchers to move to higher-opportunity neighborhoods. The one-time funding also would support research to learn what strategies are most cost-effective. Given the...
New Book Calls for Better Targeting of Federal Housing Money
March 7, 2016
Harvard sociologist Matthew Desmond — whose new book Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City shows how the lack of affordable housing drives many poor families deeper into poverty — argues for expanding the...
Housing Bill Would Boost Rental Assistance’s Effectiveness
December 9, 2015
The House Financial Services Committee approved a bill today with bipartisan support that would build on the many strengths of federal rental assistance through measured, targeted improvements that, taken together, would deliver important benefits to local housing agencies, private owners, and low...
