With Housing Choice Vouchers, families are given more flexibility to choose where they live and use the rental assistance, but finding landlords who accept them can make it challenging and limit their neighborhood choices. In Montgomery County vouchers can also be used towards a mortgage payment, helping some families who qualify, build steps towards home ownership, as one Dayton resident did.
Housing Choice Vouchers are portable subsidies that low-income families can use to lower their rents in the private market. But is this 50-year old solution to the housing crisis working as well as it should? The Department of Housing and Urban Development and local entities like the Cincinnati Metropolitan Housing Authority and Greater Dayton Premier Management, which receive the federal funds from HUD to issue […]
