by Cal Matters

The US Department of Housing and Urban Development is encouraging local housing authorities to experiment with giving cash directly to renters in pilot programs it wants to follow. It wants to know if this simplified method, which cuts down on red tape and puts more power in tenants’ hands, works better than its decades-old approach: a voucher system where money flows from the federal government, to the local housing authority, to the landlord’s pocket.

Read More: https://smdp.com/2024/03/24/feds-want-to-study-giving-cash-to-renters-will-californians-be-included/