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2. 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]

3. Costa–Hawkins Rental Housing Act - Wikipedia

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   Costa–Hawkins Rental Housing Act. The Costa–Hawkins Rental Housing Act ("Costa–Hawkins") is a California state law, enacted in 1995, which places limits on municipal rent control ordinances. Costa–Hawkins preempts the field in two major ways. [1] First, it prohibits cities from establishing rent control over certain kinds of residential ...

4. Source of income discrimination - Wikipedia

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   Participation in the Section 8 Housing Voucher Program is largely voluntary for landlords. The Biden Administration acknowledged the practice is currently legal federally but promised to address the issue. State laws banning source of income discrimination vary widely with some including protections for tenants using section 8 housing vouchers ...

5. Sacramento program worked with the chronically homeless. For ...

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   They are among the roughly 1,000 homeless people in Sacramento who can’t find housing despite having Section 8 vouchers. Sacramento’s rental market is tight.

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. ... SHRA launched a program that provided a one-time $2,500 bonus for landlords who took a Section 8 tenant in the ...

7. Low-Income Housing Tax Credit - Wikipedia

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   Living spaces. The Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) is a federal program in the United States that awards tax credits to housing developers in exchange for agreeing to reserve a certain fraction of rent-restricted units for lower-income households. [1] The program was created under the Tax Reform Act of 1986 (TRA86) to incentivize the use ...