Housing voucher

A housing voucher is a voucher that can be spent on rented housing, such as Section 8 public housing in the United States, along with universal housing vouchers.[1] The housing choice voucher programme allows families to move without the loss of housing assistance and choose a unit anywhere in the United States if they lived in the jurisdiction of public housing agency (PHA) issuing the voucher when they applied for assistance.[2] The book Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City advocates that the U.S. government issue housing vouchers to families below a certain income threshold so that they pay no more than 30 percent of their income on housing.[3][4]

References
  1. "It's time for universal housing vouchers". Slate.com. Retrieved July 2, 2016.
  2. Caves, R. W. (2004). Encyclopedia of the City. Routledge. p. 360.
  3. "A real solution to homelessness: Universal housing". Desertsun.com. Retrieved July 2, 2016.
  4. Desmond, Matthew (2016). Evicted. PenguinRandomHouse.


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