NEW FUNDING COMING FOR HOMELESS FAMILIES?
Posted on January 9, 2009. Filed under: HOUSING, Mothers in Poverty, The New Depression, poverty and government | Tags: benefits, bill, check, children, congress, contact, dc, deep poverty, depression, donovan, economic, economic stimulus, economy, families, family, finance, foreclosure, funding, help, homeless, house, HOUSING, hud, legislation, mothers, needy, new, obama, pay, policy, poor, poverty, poverty level, program, recession, rent, renters, representatives, section 8, senate, senator, shaun, single, social, subsidized, support, tenants, unemployment, voucher, washington, welfare |
I REALLY HOPE SO! according to this article, there are requests being formally made to congress for big funding to be a part of the new bailout and economic recovery bills.
The article says something about the housing provisions being only a fraction of one percent of the entire bill. WOW. I think we should [...]
Section 8 Housing Choice, and the Foreclosure Market
Posted on June 19, 2008. Filed under: HOUSING | Tags: activism, activist, benefit, choice, congress, entrepreneur, flip, foreclosure, good, governance, help, homelessness, HOUSING, housing authority, hud, investor, lease, legislature, mortgage, option, poor, poverty, reform, renter, rights, section 8, society, subsidized, subsidy, voucher |
The foreclosures are piling up, investors and middle class homeowners are losing their speculative real estate investments and even primary residences. Meanwhile, section 8 renters have been unable to find anyone willing to rent to them. A couple of years ago, the statistics show that somewhere in the neighborhood of 30 percent of section 8 [...]
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