Regina Waller-Darden and her colleagues received an unusual gift. A client, Velda Green, gave them a rock to remind them that she feels solid and stable. About a year ago, Waller-Darden, a housing ...

For one glorious week last June, the city opened a rent-voucher portal that had been closed for 15 years. Through the magic door rushed 600,000 New Yorkers applying for Section 8, which comes from the ...

For one, the program relies on private landlords to rent to people with vouchers, which many simply refuse to do. Some of that can be attributed to outright discrimination, but landlords also say they ...

The Legal Aid Society is gearing up to file a lawsuit in coming weeks seeking to force City Hall to implement a legislative package that would expand access to a rental voucher program that helps ...

Less than half of low-income tenants in Massachusetts who hold state-funded housing vouchers can consistently afford their monthly rent, according to a Boston Foundation report released Wednesday. The ...

With under two months left on the clock, the administration is not taking steps to fully implement a package of bills that would expand rental voucher eligibility among New Yorkers facing eviction.

How frustrating can the rental voucher system be? Consider this email that a PR person received last year from a client. (For privacy reasons, the names have been changed.) I’m reaching out to see if ...

Mayor Eric Adams argued in new court filings that his administration has special authority as an “arm of the state”—part of an ongoing lawsuit filed in February over City Hall’s refusal to implement a ...

Now, she was homeless with her partner and their two sons, a 7-year-old and a baby whose first address was a shelter in Brooklyn, New York. The voucher was their golden ticket. It promised stability ...

BOSTON, Mass. (SHNS)–The state budget line item for a safety net rental voucher program has grown significantly in recent years, but housing advocates say Gov. Maura Healey’s proposal to boost it an ...

ROCK ISLAND -- The Rock Island Housing Authority is taking new applications for its rent-subsidy program for the first time in nearly two years. The federal housing choice voucher program, formerly ...

(This story was updated to correct an error regarding rent increases on Section 8 tenants.) An Oxnard landlord will pay about $200,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by ...