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HUD To Begin Padding Sec. 8 Vouchers

In one of its more feverish rush jobs, HUD completes its shift in policy to allow the Section 8 housing voucher program to supplement voucher holders in wealthy areas. Congress allowed the department to make the change to help poor families afford rental apartments in a number

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Extra Section 8 Cash For Upscale Areas

In a new effort to scatter Section 8 voucher families across all neighborhoods rather than concentrating them in urban ghettoes, HUD is revising its Fair Market Rent system. Instead of using a single rent standard for an entire metropolitan area, HUD will tailor its Small Area FMR

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Right Wing Targets Housing Programs

In what is a likely portent of Republican strategy in 2017, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) calls for housing block grants to states to replace all HUD/Agriculture Department housing programs.

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Subsidized Housing Scores High In Study

Research from the University of California-Berkeley’s Urban Displacement Project shows that subsidized housing has more than double the impact of market-rate units in terms of alleviating displacement pressure.

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HUD Proposes Broadband Access Rule

In an effort to extend affordable Internet access to children and families living in federally assisted housing, HUD proposes a rule to require the installation of broadband infrastructure in most HUD-financed multifamily housing developments during their construction or substantial

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Push For Section 8 As Legitimate Income

Pressed by HUD officials in advance of the department’s new fair housing enforcement campaign, states and communities are conceding to HUD’s demands that private landlords must be forced to accept Section 8 housing subsidies as a person’s legitimate income.

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HUD Pivots On Public Housing Tenants

After years of encouraging public housing authorities to help fuel tenant incomes as a way of increasing rental revenues and encouraging tenants to wean themselves from government subsidies, the policy comes to an end six months after HUD’s inspector general discovered

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Waters Wants Info On RAD, MTW

What effects do HUD’s Moving to Work and Rental Assistance Demonstration programs have on public housing tenants? That’s the question Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) wants the Government Accountability Office to calculate.

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IG Raps HUD Haste To Implement RAD

In the continuing skirmish between HUD Inspector General David Montoya and HUD’s political leaders, Montoya finds that the department’s rush to implement its Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD) program fails to identify risks that could disrupt the program.

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Section 8 Portable Voucher Regulations Eased

Holders of Section 8 housing vouchers will be able to move around the country more easily under HUD’s revamped regulations. The proposed rule change was first published March 28, 2012 but objections and other HUD priorities put the proposal on the shelf for more than three

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