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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 [9])—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. Landlords suddenly hot for Section 8 renters - AOL

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    The number of new landlords opting into the U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development Voucher Participation Program -- which offers housing assistance to very low-income people -- shot up 18% so ...

  4. Housing discrimination in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Fair Housing Act was passed at the urging of President Lyndon B. Johnson. Congress passed the federal Fair Housing Act (codified at 42 U.S.C. 3601-3619, penalties for violation at 42 U.S.C. 3631) Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968 only one week after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

  5. Source of income discrimination - Wikipedia

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    Section 8 housing vouchers provide housing assistance for low-income, elderly, and disabled individuals or families. The term “source of income discrimination” is used by housing advocates to describe a phenomenon that is legal nationwide in the United States but is increasingly being banned on the state and city level. Participation in the ...

  6. 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.

  7. Housing voucher - Wikipedia

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    A housing voucher is a voucher that can be spent on rented housing, such as Section 8 public housing in the United States, along with universal housing vouchers. The housing choice voucher programme allows families to move without the loss of housing assistance and choose a unit anywhere in the United States if they lived in the jurisdiction of public housing agency (PHA) issuing the voucher ...

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