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2. NYC reopens Section 8 housing waitlist after 15 years - AOL

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   Jacob Flanagan. May 21, 2024 at 4:23 PM. NEW YORK - Mayor Eric Adams has announced the reopening of the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) program waitlist for the first time in nearly 15 ...

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. Section 8 (housing) - Wikipedia

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   Section 8 of the Housing Act of 1937 ( 42 U.S.C. § 1437f ), commonly known as Section 8, provides rental housing assistance to low-income households in the United States by paying private landlords on behalf of these tenants. Approximately 68% of this assistance benefits seniors, children, and individuals with disabilities. [1]

5. Source of income discrimination - Wikipedia

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   When a Section 8 voucher participant rents from a participating landlord, the local PHA “pays the difference between the household’s contribution (set at 30 percent of income) and the total monthly rent.” The Section 8 voucher program does not set a maximum rent, but participants must pay the difference between the calculated subsidy and ...

6. Mitchell–Lama Housing Program - Wikipedia

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   The Mitchell–Lama Housing Program is a non-subsidy governmental housing guarantee in the state of New York. It was sponsored by New York State Senator MacNeil Mitchell and Assemblyman Alfred A. Lama. It was signed into law in 1955 as The Limited-Profit Housing Companies Act (now officially contained in 1962 Private Housing Finance law ...

7. 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.