While the federal government provides funding for Section 8, local agencies administer the program and hand out the vouchers. Federal managers of the subsidy program ordered the county in February to ...

The Section 8 voucher concept is a good one hemmed in by too much bureaucracy and worry. getty. Fifty years after it began and almost a decade after Congressman Paul Ryan reviewed the program, ...

The first time Kristi Phillips applied for a Sacramento Section 8 housing voucher, she was pregnant with her son Ty. Now, Ty is 14. She’s still on the waiting list. The family, which also ...

Rising rents and funding decisions by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development contributed to the shortfall.

Nicknamed after Section 8 of the federal Housing Act, the Housing Choice Voucher program is the country’s largest low-income housing assistance program, helping about 2.2 million households ...

And it’s especially heartbreaking because it’s so hard to get into the Section 8 program in Los Angeles — roughly 1 in 30 people who apply for the assistance will actually get a voucher ...

Eyewitness News has found troubling failures of the federal Section 8 housing voucher program in LA leading to thousands of vouchers going unused while the city's homelessness problem worsens.

Out of the $49.6 billion spent on low-income housing programs by the federal government in 2012, Ryan notes, “$17.9 billion (about 36 percent of the total) funded Section 8 vouchers.

T he Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program remains a cornerstone of federal assistance for low-income families in 2025. Funded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development ...

Section 8 voucher program participants may be able to convert their rental assistance into mortgage assistance through a homeownership program. Instead of getting assistance with your rent each ...

For the first time in five years, the city of Los Angeles is reopening the waitlist for its Section 8 housing voucher program. Next month, low-income residents will have two weeks to submit an ...