{"id":8099,"date":"2014-11-07T15:48:25","date_gmt":"2014-11-07T21:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abodo.com\/blog\/?p=8099"},"modified":"2017-03-31T11:31:30","modified_gmt":"2017-03-31T16:31:30","slug":"affordable-housing-section-8-faq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rentable.co\/blog\/affordable-housing-section-8-faq\/","title":{"rendered":"Affordable Housing Section 8 FAQ"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Statistical Usage of Section 8 Housing Programs<\/h1>\n<div class=\"white-space medium\">\u00a0In the following description, the three categories of subsidized housing signified in the statistics are &#8220;tenant-based assistance,&#8221; &#8220;privately-owned, project-based housing&#8221; (or multifamily assisted), and &#8220;public housing.&#8221; The tenant-based program allows those who qualify for Section 8 to use the subsidy at applicable dwellings in the private sector. The subsidy for project-based housing remains with the facility and does not dissolve when a tenant moves out. Public housing receives funding from HUD and is run by local governments and\/or agencies.<\/div>\n<p>In 2008, more than 40 percent of all subsidized housing units associated with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) were administered through the tenant-based Housing Choice Voucher Program, or Section 8, according to HUD data from that year. Specifically, about 2.2 million subsidized dwellings were in the choice voucher Section 8 program, out of the approximately 5.1 million units that were under HUD programming. Private project-based housing represented about 33 percent of the overall housing availabilities that were subsidized by HUD programs. And, 25 percent was HUD subsidized public housing.<\/p>\n<p>According to HUD, about 9.6 million people in 2008 lived in dwellings that were subsidized by HUD programs that fell under those three categories. In the tenant-based, Section 8 housing, &#8220;only about 93 percent of (the) contracted units were actually being used,&#8221; according to the HUD information. The same amount of public housing also was being used that year. Of the project-based housing, about 6 percent was vacant. While these HUD programs specifically helped supply millions of low-income individuals and families with suitable places to live, the U.S. Department of Agriculture&#8217;s Rural Housing Service has also provided subsidized housing to those who qualified.<\/p>\n<p>The website https:\/\/www.huduser.org\/portal\/datasets\/pdrdatas.html offers comprehensive data and information on the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and Section 8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Statistical Usage of Section 8 Housing Programs \u00a0In the following description, the three categories of subsidized housing signified in the statistics are &#8220;tenant-based assistance,&#8221; &#8220;privately-owned, project-based housing&#8221; (or multifamily assisted), and &#8220;public housing.&#8221; The tenant-based &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Affordable Housing Section 8 FAQ\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rentable.co\/blog\/affordable-housing-section-8-faq\/#more-8099\" aria-label=\"More on Affordable Housing Section 8 FAQ\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[149],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rentable.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8099"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rentable.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rentable.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rentable.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rentable.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8099"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.rentable.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10505,"href":"https:\/\/www.rentable.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8099\/revisions\/10505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rentable.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rentable.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rentable.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}