This paper describes current housing assistance programs and analyzes several comprehensive housing policy options. Present housing programs serve both renters and home buyers, with most of the benefits going to renters with incomes below 50 percent of the local median. Concern with the increasing ...
Further, a congressional commission reported in 2002 that investment in affordable housing is decreasing, although the elderly population is expected to increase. A number of federal housing programs provide assistance, including rent subsidies, mortgage insurance, and loans and grants for the purchase ...
Comparing three main HUD housing assistance programs, public housing was the most protective against lead exposure followed by multifamily income-restricted housing. No protective effect was seen for tenant-based housing choice vouchers (HCVs). HUD enforces more stringent lead control strategies in pu...
Congress has expressed an interest in how this assistance has been allocated to homeowners and rental property owners, particularly for state-administered programs. GAO's objectives were to review (1) how federal disaster-related assistance for permanent housing has been provided to homeowners and ...
Federal Low-Income Housing Assistance Programs and Racial Segregation - Leased Public-HousingLazin, F A
Assistance Is Provided by Federal, State, and Local Programs, but There Is Incomplete Information on Collective Performance.The article focuses on a report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) as of September 2015 regarding affordable rental housing. It informs that the report ...
The five largest programs accounted for over half the money spent and reflected the new priorities that federal policy had come to serve: housing assistance for low-income families, medicaid, highway construction, services to the unemployed, and welfare programs for mothers with dependent children an...
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Overview of Federal Housing Assistance Programs and Policy [April 15, 2014] This shift in federal funding has also led affordable housing developers to pursue mixed financing: the use of multiple streams of federal funding, state, and local funding, or private financing. Lagging homeownership rates...
Homeless individuals and families in the United States can receive housing assistance from community service organizations through grant monies received from the federal government. Government-funded grant programs are designed to assist shelter faciliti