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Tens of thousands of Chicago-area residents rely on federal rental assistance through the Housing Choice Voucher program, often referred to as Section 8, to help pay for rent in the private market.

HILLSBOROUGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- EDITOR'S NOTE: This story has been updated. It's been a sweltering summer in the Triangle with record-breaking temperatures, and that heat has caused problems for some ...

Rent-stabilized owners already crippled by New York’s rent law are now getting kicked while they’re down by the Trump Administration. For the second straight month, payments to landlords accepting ...

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development cancelled a Section 8 housing assistance contract with a West Dayton apartment complex because ownership allegedly failed to remedy major health ...

Danielle Johnson credits the federal Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher program with saving her life. Johnson, 48, lives in a one-bedroom apartment in Erie. She is among more than 1,000 city residents ...

New legislation proposed by a Brooklyn congresswoman would make Section 8 recipients a protected class under federal housing law and slap steep fines on landlords who neglect their apartments in order ...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 (UPI) -- It's not your grandmother's Section 8 program anymore. Federal housing authorities have slowly been transforming the Section 8 rental housing voucher program that has ...

A woman sleeps in her car. Her neck is damaged, and she can’t work anymore as a hairdresser. But she does get a monthly check for her disability, so she has some income. She also holds a Section 8 ...

In a rare move, NYCHA is reopening the waitlist for a rental assistance program that has helped tens of thousands of New Yorkers afford apartments. Apartment buildings in Manhattan. After a nearly ...

Robert Gardner said he knew it was time to move after he came home to find his Valley Village apartment broken into and ransacked. He originally moved there for safety, a change the South L.A. native ...