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2. Subsidized housing in the United States - Wikipedia

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   In the United States, subsidized housing is administered by federal, state and local agencies to provide subsidized rental assistance for low-income households. Public housing is priced much below the market rate, allowing people to live in more convenient locations rather than move away from the city in search of lower rents.

3. Housing in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Housing in the United States. Housing in the United States comes in a variety of forms and tenures. The rate of homeownership in the United States, as measured by the fraction of units that are owner-occupied, was 64% as of 2017. [1] This rate is less than the rates in other large countries such as China (90%), Russia (89%) Mexico (80%), or ...

4. Section 8 (housing) - Wikipedia

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   Section 8 of the Housing Act of 1937 ( 42 U.S.C. § 1437f ), often called Section 8, as repeatedly amended, authorizes the payment of rental housing assistance to private landlords on behalf of low-income households in the United States. 68% of total rental assistance in the United States goes to seniors, children, and those with disabilities ...

5. Queensbridge Houses - Wikipedia

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   11101. Area code (s) 718, 347, 929, and 917. Queensbridge Houses, also known simply as Queensbridge or QB, is a public housing development in the Long Island City neighborhood of Queens, New York City. Owned by the New York City Housing Authority, the development contains 96 buildings and 3,142 units accommodating approximately 7,000 people in ...

6. Elliott-Chelsea Houses - Wikipedia

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   Elliott-Chelsea Houses. / 40.748880; -74.001530. The Elliott-Chelsea Houses is a combined housing project of the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), located between West 25th and 27th Streets and Ninth and Tenth Avenues in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. It consists of two contiguous projects which were originally ...

7. United States Department of Housing and Urban Development

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   It administers federal housing and urban development laws. It is headed by the secretary of housing and urban development, who reports directly to the president of the United States and is a member of the president's Cabinet . Although its beginnings were in the House and Home Financing Agency, it was founded as a Cabinet department in 1965, as ...