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2. Voucher program is supposed to help poor families rent ... - AOL

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   The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, which oversees the voucher program, does not require that the thousands of local authorities around the country who administer the vouchers ...

3. 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. [ 1 ] The term “source of income discrimination” is used by housing advocates [ 2 ] to describe a phenomenon that is legal nationwide in the United States but is increasingly being banned on the state [ 3 ] and city level.

4. 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 [11])—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 ...

5. Controversy erupts over low-income housing plan for trendy ...

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   The current proposal calls for constructing four, four-story apartment buildings totaling 211 units — all of them below-market housing, with some units accepting housing vouchers.

6. List of homeless relocation programs in the United States

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   For several decades, various cities and towns in the United States have adopted relocation programs offering homeless people one-way tickets to move elsewhere. [1] [2] Also referred to as "Greyhound therapy", [2] "bus ticket therapy" and "homeless dumping", [3] the practice was historically associated with small towns and rural counties, which had no shelters or other services, sending ...

7. Moving to Opportunity - Wikipedia

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   A critique in the Du Bois Review (2004) by Arline Geronimus and J. Phillip Thompson calls the Moving to Opportunity study "politically naive". [11] Their study theorizes that moving a family into a higher income neighborhood might solve immediate, direct health risks (for example clean water, less crime) however the loss of social integration, stress factors, and racially influenced ...