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  2. How struggling households can get federal rental assistance

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    Congress passed two different rental relief packages. The first, approved in December, provided $25 billion for rental relief. The second, approved in March, provides more than $21 billion. In ...

  3. How to Get Rental Assistance in Your City - AOL

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    Santa Clara County residents can apply for past-due, current, and future rent and utility assistance. Eligible tenants whose landlords choose not to participate may get 25% of unpaid rent between ...

  4. Administration of federal assistance in the United States

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    In the United States, federal assistance, also known as federal aid, federal benefits, or federal funds, is defined as any federal program, project, service, or activity provided by the federal government that directly assists domestic governments, organizations, or individuals in the areas of education, health, public safety, public welfare, and public works, among others.

  5. 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)—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 United ...

  6. Stimulus Update: Emergency Rental Assistance Program ... - AOL

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    At the end of October, the U.S. Treasury news release says, more than 100 state and local ERA 1 grantees had spent 95% or more of their funding, while 130 grantees had already started to dip into ...

  7. Subsidized housing in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In 2022, about 5.2 million American households received some form of federal rental assistance. [4] Subsidized apartment buildings, often referred to as housing projects (or simply "the projects"), [5] have a complicated and often notorious history in the United States. While the first decades of projects were built with higher construction ...

  8. Rent-seeking - Wikipedia

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    Rent-seeking is an attempt to obtain economic rent (i.e., the portion of income paid to a factor of production in excess of what is needed to keep it employed in its current use) by manipulating the social or political environment in which economic activities occur, rather than by creating new wealth.

  9. Struggling to afford rent in Boise? The government just ... - AOL

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    HUD will increase the fair market rent for Boise so voucher holders have more money to cover rents