Estella Carter visited 15 landlords and registered with nearly 40 real estate agencies during her months-long search for an apartment earlier this year. She’d waited two years to get a Section 8 ...

A woman sleeps in her car. Her neck is damaged, and she can’t work anymore as a hairdresser. But she does get a monthly check for her disability, so she has some income. She also holds a Section 8 ...

Tens of thousands of Chicago-area residents rely on federal rental assistance through the Housing Choice Voucher program, often referred to as Section 8, to help pay for rent in the private market.

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New legislation proposed by a Brooklyn congresswoman would make Section 8 recipients a protected class under federal housing law and slap steep fines on landlords who neglect their apartments in order ...

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development cancelled a Section 8 housing assistance contract with a West Dayton apartment complex because ownership allegedly failed to remedy major health ...

Many people might assume Gerardo Diuccio is the stereotypical mean landlord: On a recent afternoon he was at the Brooklyn Housing Court, trying to evict a tenant who has always paid her rent and has ...

For those struggling to afford housing, a Section 8 voucher is a ticket into the private housing market. But after receiving a voucher, renters frequently encounter apartment listings with caveats ...

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