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2. Section 8 (housing) - Wikipedia

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   Section 8 of the Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. § 1437f), commonly known as Section 8, provides rental housing assistance to low-income households in the United States by paying private landlords on behalf of these tenants. Approximately 68% of this assistance benefits seniors, children, and individuals with disabilities. [1]

3. Subsidized housing in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Permanent, federally funded housing came into being in the United States as a part of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. Title II, Section 202 of the National Industrial Recovery Act, passed June 16, 1933, directed the Public Works Administration (PWA) to develop a program for the "construction, reconstruction, alteration, or repair under public regulation or control of low-cost housing and slum ...

4. Costa–Hawkins Rental Housing Act - Wikipedia

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   The Costa–Hawkins Rental Housing Act ("Costa–Hawkins") is a California state law enacted in 1995, placing limits on municipal rent control ordinances. Costa–Hawkins preempts the field in two major ways. [1] First, it prohibits cities from establishing rent control over certain kinds of residential units, such as single-family dwellings ...

5. How struggling households can get federal rental assistance

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   An estimated 8.8 million Americans are behind on their rent, according the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. While relief efforts have staved off some of the housing crisis, rent is still ...

6. Invitation Homes - Wikipedia

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   Invitation Homes Inc. Invitation Homes Inc. is a public company traded on the New York Stock Exchange. It is headquartered in the Comerica Bank Tower in Dallas, Texas. [2] Dallas B. Tanner is chief executive officer. As of 2017, the company was reportedly the largest owner of single-family rental homes in the United States. [2] As of July 2024 ...

7. Affordable housing in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Residents pay their portion of rent through Section 8 vouchers, and many of the apartments are available only to families who make 30% or less of the median income of the city. [58] The new housing project aimed to provide a low-rent area for residents who work downtown but who are unable to live near their workplace because of the high costs. [57]

8. California housing shortage - Wikipedia

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   Issi Romem, an economist at the Terner Center for Housing Innovation at the University of California, Berkeley said: "...as long as abundant new housing was built to accommodate those drawn to California, housing price growth was limited and the state's allure was channeled into population growth: From 1940 to 1970 California's population grew 242 percent faster than the national pace, while ...

9. Affordable housing - Wikipedia

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   The definition of affordable housing may change depending on the country and context. For example, in Australia, the National Affordable Housing Summit Group developed their definition of affordable housing as housing that is "...reasonably adequate in standard and location for lower or middle income households and does not cost so much that a household is unlikely to be able to meet other ...