The federal government’s new plan to (maybe) give renters straight cash

The federal government’s new plan to (maybe) give renters straight cash

Rachel M. Cohen is a senior reporter for Vox covering social policy. She focuses on housing, schools, homelessness, child care, and abortion rights, and has been reporting on these issues for more than a decade.

DETROIT — The federal government is laying the groundwork for a potentially major change to the nation’s largest rental assistance program, aiming to test an idea that would allow low-income tenants to pay rent directly with cash, rather than use traditional housing vouchers.

On Wednesday afternoon in Detroit, at a national guaranteed income conference , HUD Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy Development Brian McCabe announced that […]

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