“The federal government policies have a very large impact on what homelessness looks like and what our response looks like across the whole country,” said Heidi Marston, who heads the Los Angeles ...

Section 8, with a $19.3 billion annual price tag, has been criticized as a long-term, no-strings-attached handout for low-income residents. The HUD study shows that people who participate in the ...

Tech entrepreneur Adam Miller believes that affordable housing development can be profitable and has created a $300 million ...

The Congress made their final decision on spending for 2023 late last year and it included 30.3 billion to renew existing Section 8 tenant-based vouchers and $14.9 billion for existing Section 8 ...

Two years ago, it became illegal across California for landlords to refuse to rent to Section 8 residents. Tenants and their advocates say the practice remains common.

A Trump administration proposal to cap federal rental aid at two years could jeopardize housing for 1.4 million families, ...

Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.) has proposed a bill with the hopes of taking a swing at homelessness through sweeping enhancements to rental assistance for the poor. The legislation, called the Ending… ...

This week, the group’s HCV director, Carlos Van Natter, said that the changes are likely to lead to a rise in homelessness in Los Angeles. “The biggest impact would be that we could end up ...

Local laws prohibiting landlords from discriminating against tenants who receive public assistance are unenforceable under ...

When I first met Jacqueline Benitez, a homeless community college student, she was thrilled to learn that she had just been approved for a housing voucher, commonly known as Section 8.

The impact of these inhumane measures must not be understated. Nearly half a million voucher recipients statewide, 100,000 subsidized Section 8 units, and 164,000 public housing tenants could be ...