{"id":3863,"date":"2022-04-05T09:22:11","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T07:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/affordablehousingactivation.org\/?post_type=tribe_events&p=3863"},"modified":"2022-04-28T13:03:18","modified_gmt":"2022-04-28T11:03:18","slug":"housing-vouchers-in-the-united-states-co-opting-the-private-supply-of-housing","status":"publish","type":"exemplary_case","link":"https:\/\/affordablehousingactivation.org\/es\/casos-de-exito\/housing-vouchers-in-the-united-states-co-opting-the-private-supply-of-housing\/","title":{"rendered":"Housing vouchers in the United States \u2013 co-opting the private supply of housing"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Housing vouchers (HVs), funded by the central government and allocated locally, are the most common United States mechanism to ensure rents are affordable. HVs aim to increase purchasing power and improve housing choices for very low-income renters, and more recently have used to encourage poor households to move to areas of greater labour opportunity.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)<\/span><\/p>\n

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The voucher is provided to eligible tenants according to a waiting list maintained by city or county housing agencies, who are searching for housing of a defined quality and cost.\u00a0 When a suitable dwelling and willing landlord is found, the HV can be used to help pay the tenant\u2019s rent[1].\u00a0 This HV payment reflects the difference between a Fair Market Rent (FMR) which is calculated locally, and affordable rent defined as 30 per cent household income. If an HV recipient cannot find suitable housing within 60 days, the voucher must be returned to the issuing local housing authority.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The budget for HVs is capped and both demand and need outstrips availability.\u00a0 HVs are targeted strictly based on income \u2013 75 per cent of recipients have a very low income.[2] It is estimated that only 25 per cent of eligible households are actually assisted by HVs due to limited supply, leading to long waiting lists and occasional government crises measures.[3] Voucher recipients also face discrimination when searching for suitable homes. Only a few local governments have passed \u201csource of income laws\u201d[4] to combat this problem.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

[1] For a review of this scheme, see Keith Jacobs and others, \u201cIndividualised and market-based housing assistance: evidence and policy options\u201d, AHURI Final Report, No.253 (Melbourne, Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute Limited, 2015). Available at https:\/\/www.ahuri.edu.au\/__data\/assets\/pdf_file\/0021\/5664\/AHURI_Final_Report_No253_Individualised-and-market-based-housing-assistance-evidence-and-policy-options.pdf<\/a><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

[2] Barbara Sard, \u201cHousing Vouchers Work: Helping Vulnerable People Afford Decent, Stable Housing\u201d, Off the Charts (blog), Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, 28 March 2017. Available at https:\/\/www.cbpp.org\/blog\/housing-vouchers-work-helping-vulnerable-people-afford-decent-stable-housing<\/a><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

[3] At the time of writing, the incoming Biden administration proposed substantial expansion of many housing and urban development programmes, including the Housing Voucher programme, as part of the President\u2019s discretionary funding request for fiscal year 2022 (https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/omb\/fy-2022-discretionary-request\/<\/a>).<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

[4] For an overview of Source of Income Laws by Local Housing Solutions, see https:\/\/www.localhousingsolutions.org\/act\/housing-policy-library\/source-of-income-laws-overview\/source-of-income-laws<\/a><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.hud.gov\/topics\/housing_choice_voucher_program_section_8<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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In the United States most rented dwellings are provided by private landlords and this sector has a small affordable rental housing segment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3871,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"Tribe__Tickets_Plus__Commerce__WooCommerce__Main","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":[],"_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false},"barrera":[113,116,114,119,120],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/affordablehousingactivation.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exemplary_case\/3863"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/affordablehousingactivation.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exemplary_case"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/affordablehousingactivation.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/exemplary_case"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affordablehousingactivation.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/affordablehousingactivation.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"barrera","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affordablehousingactivation.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/barrera?post=3863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}