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San Diego in National Spotlight: City’s Failure to Prohibit Section 8 Discrimination Hurts Homeless Veterans

In the recent American Bar Association Journal of Affordable Housing & Community Development Law, National Housing Law Project’s Supervising Attorney Deborah Thrope addresses key barriers to housing choice and mobility and provides policy recommendations to HUD that would help deconcentrate voucher families outside of high poverty areas. 

July 17, 2018 By Parisa Ijadi-Maghsoodi

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Photo by Ed Yourdon – Homeless and Cold, Flickr Creative Commons

Achieving Housing Choice and Mobility in the Voucher Program: Recommendations for the Administration is in the latest edition of the American Bar Association Journal of Affordable Housing & Community Development Law (Vol. 27-1).

The article recognizes the Housing Choice Voucher Program as vital to helping homeless individuals and low-income families’ overcome barriers to housing stability, and a powerful tool to deconcentrate poverty and decrease racial segregation in our nation’s communities.  While acknowledging the program’s potential to improve individual lives, families, and communities, the article discusses the program’s failure to meet its housing and community goals:Continue Reading San Diego in National Spotlight: City’s Failure to Prohibit Section 8 Discrimination Hurts Homeless Veterans

Filed Under: Affordable Housing, environmental health, Feature Posts, homeless, housing, News, Projects, San Diego Tagged With: homeless, Housing Choice, housing voucher, HUD, section 8, veterans

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