You may have heard how lots of cities have been giving people cash to fight poverty. Well, now the federal government is exploring doing that on a far bigger scale to help people pay rent. It could ...

Federal housing vouchers are the largest rental aid program, but many landlords reject them. Experiments will test whether cash helps more people... In a major shift, the U.S. government explores ...

Angie Atkins has been on a waitlist for a federal housing voucher for the better part of a decade. During that time, her rent in northwest Philadelphia kept rising, year after year, until it was ...

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