Section 8, officially known as the Housing Choice Voucher Program, is a federal initiative funded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). The program offers rental subsidies ...

“Basically what has happened is [cities] are forcing people to take Section 8 housing,” Brown said. “… I would submit this kind of amounts to an illegal appropriation of private property.

The potential elimination of Section 8 housing vouchers and roughly 40% cuts to rental assistance were included in a recent White House request to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban ...

Now, that wait may grow even longer. Most housing authorities in Massachusetts, including the state’s housing office, have recently stopped issuing new Section 8 vouchers when tenants give them up.

While the wait list for Section 8 is closed, the PHA’s public housing program is still available. PHA manages about 509 rental housing units in Pottsville.

The leaked plan for ‘deep cuts’ to Section 8 housing vouchers from the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) first appeared in an article in The New York Times on April 17.