Regina Waller-Darden and her colleagues received an unusual gift. A client, Velda Green, gave them a rock to remind them that she feels solid and stable. About a year ago, Waller-Darden, a housing ...
Tiara Booker was striking out. She had been looking for months for a place to live using her housing voucher, and she was facing the public housing authority’s deadline to lease a unit with the ...
BOSTON, Mass. (SHNS)–The state budget line item for a safety net rental voucher program has grown significantly in recent years, but housing advocates say Gov. Maura Healey’s proposal to boost it an ...
State leaders are negotiating a potential deal to include a long-desired rental voucher bill in the state budget, according to sources with knowledge of the discussions. It’s the most serious that ...
Brokers and landlords told me my voucher wasn’t enough, that I would still be required to make 40 times the rent to qualify for whatever apartment I was looking for,” she said. “Brokers need to stop ...
How frustrating can the rental voucher system be? Consider this email that a PR person received last year from a client. (For privacy reasons, the names have been changed.) I’m reaching out to see if ...
BOSTON (SHNS) – Both tenants and landlords reported significant satisfaction with a state-run voucher program designed to help low-income residents pay rent, even as they continue to flag difficulties ...
A panel of judges said a law banning discrimination against Section 8 recipients actually violates landlord rights.