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New study uncovers surprising benefit to Biden-era rental assistance program

Researchers suggest fiscal policies like the emergency rental assistance program are also a tool for improving public health.
Governing

One Housing Assistance Program Congress Is Actually Expanding

New provisions in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act could help finance more than a million units of low-income housing over the next decade. The changes are complicated but will increase assistance both ...
Governing

Housing Assistance Is Facing Cuts. State and Local Agencies Are Preparing.

Reports suggest the Department of Government Efficiency could eliminate as much as half of the staff at the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Advocates fear staff cuts, along with potential ...
Stars and Stripes

Disability income for veterans will no longer disqualify them from rental assistance

WASHINGTON — Veterans whose monthly disability checks from the Department of Veterans Affairs disqualified them from receiving federal housing subsidies based on income restrictions will become ...
Time

Here’s What Harris and Trump Have Proposed to Help the Housing Crisis

During Vice President Kamala Harris' and former President Donald Trump’s debate, the first policy to come up was one that rarely receives airtime in presidential elections but affects Americans every ...
The Conversation

What if universal rental assistance were implemented to deal with the housing crisis?

Alex Schwartz has received funding from the Catherine and John D. MacArthur Foundation. Since 2019 he has served on New York City's Rent Guidelines Board. He has a relative who works for The ...