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By the time Kimberly Loper, 28, got the news that she would receive a Section 8 voucher – a coveted federal rental subsidy for low-income families – she had been on the waitlist for three years.
The New York Immigrant Coalition (NYIC) and Women in Need (Win), both nonprofits currently working to address homelessness in asylum seekers, are at the forefront of proposing housing vouchers to ...
NEW YORK — Advocates are calling on Mayor Eric Adams’ to extend housing vouchers to undocumented immigrants living in New York City — an unprecedented move they say will help alleviate ...
Housing being built in New York City Homeless person in New York City. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development administers programs that provide housing and community development assistance in the United States. [4] Adequate housing is recognized as human right in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights and in the 1966 ...
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.
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 ...
A group of eight New Yorkers is suing a Bronx real estate company for allegedly refusing to accept housing vouchers as rent payment. The lawsuit against Chestnut Holdings, a management company ...
The New York City Housing Authority is experiencing record demand for subsidized housing assistance. However, just 13,000 of the 29,000 families who applied were admitted into the public housing system or received federal housing vouchers known as Section 8 in 2010. Due to budget cuts there have been no new applicants accepted to receive Section 8.