Check out this interesting read about Section 8 in the Washington Post. In a broad sense, this is an American tradition: conflating where people live with who they are. “We’ve been doing that as a society for a really, really long time,” says Lawrence Vale, an MIT professor who has written extensively about public housing. “And it’s been racialized for a lot of that history.” Today, households receiving government housing assistance — from traditional public housing to the private-market vouchers it inspired — live on average incomes of less than $13,000 a year. |
For more information on Section 8 Vouchers check out HUD's website: Housing Choice Vouchers Fact Sheet