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1:   (SECTION 8) HUD Re-Examines Voucher Distribution : Following a series of mob scenes seeking Sec. 8 vouchers, including a 30,000-person turnout in an Atlanta-area shopping center recently, HUD officials say they intend to make sure public 08/27/2010 12:48 PM

2:   (SECTION 8) Mayor Seeks Sec. 8 Accountability : Augusta, GA Mayor Pro Tem Alvin Mason wants to press the Augusta Housing Authority to keep tabs on its Sec. 8 tenants following the closing of two of the city's public housing complexes 08/20/2010 1 PM

3:   (SECTION 8) Fair Market Rent Experiment : HUD proposed Fair Market Rents for FY2011 contain an experiment slated for the Dallas area that will open exclusive suburban areas to low- to moderate-income families by increasing the amounts awarded in Section 8 08/13/2010 1:25 PM

4:   (SECTION 8) Sec. 8 Mob Overwhelms Agency : About 30,000 Sec. 8 housing voucher hopefuls besieged East Point Housing Authority in a suburban Atlanta, GA shopping center where agency officials were distributing applications for about 655 units of subsidized 08/13/2010 12:52 PM

5:   (SECTION 8) State Copies City On Sec. 8 Vouchers : New York lawmakers approve a measure banning housing discrimination based on the source of an applicant's income. The measure was approved in the Assembly on a 136-4 vote and in the 08/06/2010 10:53 AM

6:   (SECTION 8) Sec. 8 Deluge In Garden Grove : The Garden Grove Housing Authority in Orange County, CA anticipated about 10,000 applications for Sec. 8 housing vouchers when the agency opened its waiting list for the first time in eight 08/06/2010 10:34 AM

7:   (SECTION 8) HUD Rescues NYC Sec. 8 Default : An intricate $32 million plan devised by city and state agencies will be financed by HUD to rescue the New York City Housing Authority from default on 2,500 Sec. 8 housing vouchers. Another 4,000 07/09/2010 12:41 PM

8:   (INCOME SOURCES) HUD Targets Income Source Violators : A new move by HUD to bar grant applicants who refuse to honor government financial assistance as a source of income is seen as a maneuver to press state and local government jurisdictions to 06/25/2010 12:47 PM

9:   (SECTION 8) Mandatory Sec. 8 Recognition Advances : Increasingly, states and communities are adopting laws and ordinances barring landlords from rejecting Sec. 8 housing voucher holders strictly on the basis of source of income. Landlords have 06/18/2010 12:48 PM

10:   (SECTION 8 VOUCHERS) Sec. 8 Voucher Cuts Hit Indiana : Facing a $3.2 million deficit in Sec. 8 housing voucher allocations from HUD this year, the Indianapolis Housing Agency says it will cut payments to landlords by about 10% and not pay them an 06/11/2010 11:56 AM

11:   (NEIGHBORHOODS) CNI Requires Full Housing Replacement : HUD's Choice Neighborhoods Initiative demonstration will require one-for-one unit replacement of any demolished units, unless the lost units are in markets that allow vouchers to be used in similar 06/04/2010 12:08 PM

12:   (SECTION 8) Sec. 8 Hold Harmless Policy Dropped : HUD eliminates the "hold-harmless" policy for its Sec. 8 program and continues earlier changes made where multi-family tax subsidy projects financed with tax-exempt bonds are concerned, paving the 05/21/2010 12:05 PM

13:   (SECTION 8) NY Housing Gets Sec. 8 Supplement : Less than two weeks after the New York City Housing Authority and HUD faced off over a shortage of Sec. 8 housing voucher cash, the department allocates $24 million to allow the agency to continue 04/23/2010 12:32 PM

14:   (SECTION 8 ) Housing Authority Blocks Sec. 8 Aid : Faced with financing a troubled affordable housing project or withholding Sec. 8 vouchers to prospective tenants, the Los Angeles Housing Authority opts to block the subsidies while the Los Angeles 04/16/2010 12:39 PM

15:   (COURTS) Landlord Wins Sec. 8 Verdict : A California Court of Appeals ruling giving landlords the right to refuse to accommodate Sec. 8 tenants is unlikely to be appealed because the decision is well-written and the state Supreme Court 04/16/2010 12:16 PM

16:   (SECTION 8) HUD, New York HA In Face-Off : Only days after HUD was drawn into a $305 million rescue of New York state and city-operated public housing units, the New York City Housing Authority threatens to cut off 10,500 Sec. 8 housing 04/09/2010 12:56 PM

17:   (SECTION 8) Landlord Cited For Sec. 8 Rebuke : A Massachusetts Superior Court Judge approves a judgment sought by the state attorney general against a landlord who refused to seek Sec. 8 housing voucher holders for his rental properties. 04/09/2010 12:54 PM

18:   (DISASTER HOUSING) DHAP Enters Computer Matching : Individuals and families receiving disaster assistance under HUD's Disaster Housing Assistance Program will undergo an investigation of their incomes to verify if they qualify for the aid 04/02/2010 12:24 PM

19:   (RENTALS) HUD Rental Plan Under Fire : President Barack Obama's $350 million Transforming Rental Assistance initiative outlined in his FY 2011 spending blueprint is coming under criticism from housing industry groups that call it 03/19/2010 12:54 PM

20:   (CUTBACKS) City Moves To Reduce Assisted Housing : Danville, IL officials vote to reduce public housing and Sec. 8 subsidized housing as part of the city's consolidated plan being readied for submission to HUD. The plan list strategic goals and 03/19/2010 12:48 PM

21:   (CRITICISM) HOPE VI Successor Slammed : Lawmakers are wary of an Obama administration plan to supplant the HOPE VI program with a plan dubbed the Choice Neighborhoods Initiative, saying they object to using money 03/19/2010 12:37 PM

22:   (SEC. 8) More Sec. 8 Housing Embraced : Eleven cities in Minnesota's Metropolitan Council's jurisdiction will provide a combined 150 affordable housing units to HUD's Sec. 8 housing voucher program under the department's Family Affordable 03/12/2010 12:46 PM

23:   (DEVELOPMENT) Green Light For Tenant Ouster : Residents of an historic hotel in downtown Cincinnati, OH used for low-income housing will have to move to make way for an exclusive period-oriented hotel. HUD rejected a complaint by tenants against 03/05/2010 1:13 PM

24:   (SEC. 8) Vouchers Ready After 10-Year Lapse : Applications for Sec. 8 housing vouchers are being accepted by the Philadelphia Housing Authority for the first time in 10 years. Applicants will be placed on a waiting list for the first-come, first- 03/05/2010 1:06 PM

25:   (HUD) Rental Assist Single Payer Sought : A HUD initiative designed under its administrative transformation umbrella would pull together at least 13 programs now providing some form of rental assistance and create a single subsidy that 02/12/2010 12:58 PM

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