Articles

• Author: Michael Bordonada
• Posted: 2025-01-03

For those who don't know how Section 8 Housing got started, its roots are in the United States Housing Act of 1937. "Section 8" was the portion of the Act that refers to doling out safe housing to people...

• Author: Jeffrey Simmons
• Posted: 2025-01-16

For the past few months, various articles have circulated every week or so about the need to make Section 8 housing something that landlords are compelled to accept. This is yet another highly contested topic in America, polari...

• Author: Mary Singleton
• Posted: 2025-04-17

What Happened? Congressional representative Maxine Waters (D-CA) has long advocated for affordable housing. In the increasingly unaffordable Los Angeles metro area, many homeless residents have also long...

• Author: William Asher
• Posted: 2025-01-29

Housing choice vouchers are basically a legal measure which allows people drawing Section 8 housing assistance to choose where to live. At a previous point in America, recipients of Section 8 housing assistance could on...

• Author: Michael Bordonada
• Posted: 2025-05-04

Section 8 has been around for a century, whereas the Housing Choice Voucher Program has been around since the '70s. Basically, this is a blank check, so to speak, which allows recipients of Section 8 to choose ...

• Author: Jacob Greene
• Posted: 2024-12-10

There is so much going on in America on the surface that people rarely get to hear about what's brewing underneath. Russia invading Ukraine, for instance, is the huge surface issue, while the fact that Americans are trying...

• Author: Mary Singleton
• Posted: 2025-03-22

In the middle of last month (February, 2022), the Phoenix City Council voted 9-0 to offer an incentives package to landlords around the city if they accepted vouchers from Section 8 tenants. In Arizona, landlords are under n...

• Author: Jacob Greene
• Posted: 2025-02-28

According to ABC 15 News in Arizona, dozens of Phoenix residents may end up homeless due to their Section 8 housing being taken away. As a federal housing assistance program, Section 8 is a type of welfare that pays either a portion...

• Author: Jeffrey Simmons
• Posted: 2025-02-25

In a nutshell, Section 8 housing is a law that was passed back in 1937, with the intention of the federal government paying part of or all off the cost of a property for poor Americans. This can include single Americans or entire famili...

• Author: Aubrey Sipes
• Posted: 2025-03-28

Families with low incomes, senior citizens, and people with disabilities are eligible for rental assistance through Section 8 of the Housing Act of 1937, which is a federal program. Individuals and families who ot...