State and local laws States, she was entitled to a VASH “I WAS GOOD prohibiting SOI discrimination voucher—a kind of Section 8 or began to appear in the 1970s, Housing Choice Voucher—made ENOUGH TO steadily spreading across the coun- available to homeless veterans with SERVE MY try, and increasing exponentially disabilities. [...] Often, the denial add SOI protection to the federal director of the Poverty and Race of housing will serve as a pretext Fair Housing Act. [...] the strong health, educational, to the average rent in each zip code, Housing Act of 1937; (c) a gift, an and economic benefits for fami- as opposed to the average rent in inheritance, a pension, an annuity, lies and children who move from the region. [...] Understand the perception included funding for a “Hous- “Creating Moves to Opportunity: of the local housing agencies that ing Mobility Demonstration” in Experimental Evidence on Barri- administer vouchers and attempt the 2019 and 2020 HUD budgets, ers to Neighborhood Choice,” to address any challenges. [...] Importantly, the study policies: (a) landlords can use their finding units in high-opportunity acknowledged that the availabil- regular (lawful) screening criteria areas in up to nine regions, sim- ity of higher voucher rents and and charge security deposits and ilar to programs in Baltimore, the state’s SOI law were key to the regular rents; (b) rent payments Chicago, and Dallas that have col- su.
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