Rethinking Section 8
Today Living Cities: The National Community Development Initiative released my concept paper, “Rethinking Section 8″. The paper outlines a variety of issues and opportunities to reform the Section 8 federal affordable housing subsidy but does not endorse any one particular approach. Rather, it establishes a basis for thoughtful and productive discussion of reforms to the program. There’s also an executive summary.
Extensive background on Section 8 is also available on
Recap’s web site.
For those of you unfamiliar with US affordable housing and Section 8 as a resident income subsidy tool, the paper also includes several resources:
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Glossary of US afforadble housing terms
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The need for affordable housing in the US
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How Section 8, as a demand-side income supplement, fits within the larger universe of affordable housing tools
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A programmatic hisory of resident income subsidy in the US, and lessons learned
All of these last were designed specifically with a non-expert audience in mind.
For those of you outside the US, do please drop me a line and let me know what you think of the paper!
