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/ Across Florida, there is a shortage of rental homes affordable and available to extremely low-income households.
Also called tenant-based Section 8, the Housing Choice Voucher program is the federal government s largest rental assistance program.
For the first time since 2015, Manatee County is now accepting applications for Section 8 Housing.
Federal Housing Choice Vouchers help low-income people find affordable housing in the private housing market by reimbursing the landlord for the difference between what a household can afford to pay in rent and the monthly rental cost itself.
The program is designed to help families who spend more than 30 percent of their income on housing. Severe rent burden is defined as paying more than 50 percent of one’s income on rent. The current percentage of renters in Manatee paying 30 percent or more of their income for gross rent is 52%, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2019 American Community Survey.
Iowa Governor Signs Law Letting Landlords Refuse Section 8 Vouchers
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds has signed into a law a bill that prohibits the state’s localities from requiring landlords to accept federal rental assistance vouchers.
Both chambers of the state’s legislature passed the bill in March. The law states that counties cannot enact laws that prohibit landlords from refusing to rent “to a person because of the person’s use of a federal housing choice voucher issued by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development.”
The DesMoines Register reported that the governor signed the bill. The state legislature’s website did not say whether the bill was signed, and the governor’s website did not feature an update on the matter. The governor’s office did not immediately respond to a request for an update.
2021Fair Housing: Restoring HUD Rules and Revenues Nearly $9 billion boost in discretionary funds to support CDBG, homelessness
By Charlene Crowell
Charlene Crowell (Courtesy photo)
Although the month of April is annually observed as Fair Housing Month, the reality for Black America and other people of color is that housing has not significantly changed since the 1968 federal enactment of the Fair Housing Act. Its enactment came seven days after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. who had strongly advocated fair and open housing.
But 53 years after an historic enactment, race and place remain the determining factors of who is allowed the opportunity to build wealth, as well as to share wealth’s financial advantages across family generations.
Biden exercised presidential authority and $68.7 billion was awarded to HUD for fiscal year 2022; a $9 billion increase above 2021 funding, expected. Although the month of April is annually observed as Fair Housing Month, the reality for Black America and other people of color is that housing has not significantly changed since the 1968 federal enactment of the Fair Housing Act. Its enactment came seven days after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. who had strongly advocated fair and open housing.
But 53 years after an historic enactment, race and place remain the determining factors of who is allowed the opportunity to build wealth, as well as to share wealth’s financial advantages across family generations.