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Tens of thousands of Chicago-area residents rely on federal rental assistance through the Housing Choice Voucher program, often referred to as Section 8, to help pay for rent in the private market.

Danielle Johnson credits the federal Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher program with saving her life. Johnson, 48, lives in a one-bedroom apartment in Erie. She is among more than 1,000 city residents ...

New legislation proposed by a Brooklyn congresswoman would make Section 8 recipients a protected class under federal housing law and slap steep fines on landlords who neglect their apartments in order ...

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development cancelled a Section 8 housing assistance contract with a West Dayton apartment complex because ownership allegedly failed to remedy major health ...

In a rare move, NYCHA is reopening the waitlist for a rental assistance program that has helped tens of thousands of New Yorkers afford apartments. Apartment buildings in Manhattan. After a nearly ...

Robert Gardner said he knew it was time to move after he came home to find his Valley Village apartment broken into and ransacked. He originally moved there for safety, a change the South L.A. native ...

Last spring a woman called Brooklyn brokerage 3Location3 about a Clinton Hill studio for rent. When she asked if she could pay the $1,403 rent with her Section 8 voucher, the answer was unequivocal: ...