Sentences with phrase «housing voucher program»

The agreement includes a new requirement for the City of Houston to adopt «multifamily priorities and a policy for objectively evaluating federally supported affordable housing developments in all areas of Houston; to seek to invest additional funds in homeless assistance programs, and; to encourage more landlord participation in Houston's housing voucher program».

The Section 8 housing voucher program is designed to allow families to move without losing their housing assistance.

Less than 24 hours later, the Austin Apartment Association (AAA) sued the city on the grounds that the ordinance compelled property owners to contract with the federal government under the housing voucher program.

However, research published in 2006 on families in five major U.S. cities who used the federal Moving to Opportunity housing voucher program to transplant from public housing to more affluent neighborhoods concluded that living among the more affluent had no significant impact on student test scores, behavioral incidents or student engagement.

Similar scarcity prevails in the Section 8 housing voucher program.

And while Baltimore seems to have one of the better - working housing voucher programs, Kutler says it has also caused problems.

Not exact matches

Public housing vouchers for the poor are targeted as well, much to the consternation of the pragmatic - minded lawmakers on the House and Senate Appropriations committees, whose programs were significantly curbed by a hard - fought 2011 budget and debt agreement.

Our partnership with SHA will be in collaboration with a pilot program in Seattle to supplement housing vouchers to get families into better neighborhoods so that their children can experience more long - term success.

«The voucher program relies on the current housing market such that landlords are able to really inflate the price of housing to get the most out of the voucher.

The budget that President Donald Trump proposed Monday takes a hard whack at the poorest Americans, slashing billions of dollars from food stamps, public health insurance and federal housing vouchers, while trying to tilt the programs in more conservative directions.

HUD today unveiled plans for a major overhaul of its rental assistance programs — including Section 8 Tenant - Based Rental Assistance, Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers and Section 8 Project - Based Rental Assistance — to help the agency meet its budget goals.

Dismantle welfare programs which subsidize mundane expenditures sensitive to considerations of amenity — food coupons, housing vouchers, utility subsides, & c. Straightforward income redistribution through a negative income tax will suffice.

l Includes housing choice vouchers, Section 8 project - based rental assistance and housing certificate fund, public - housing operating subsidies, public - housing capital subsidies, and rural rental assistance program.

The City will leverage Project - Based Section 8 vouchers to make housing affordable to those seniors whose income remains stagnant or declines over time, and will continue to push for expanding income eligibility in the SCRIE program.

► The city will help move 500 homeless families out of shelters into stable, affordable housing through the Living in Communities voucher program.

When asked if the police department is taking another look at a voucher program in addition to de-clustering homeless sex offenders housing on the East End, Mr. Schneider said «everything is on the table.»

When we spoke with Vicki Been, who heads up the Department of Housing Preservation and Development, which administers the Section 8 program, she told us that there «were a very limited number of unattributed vouchers, about 600» from recipients who had left the program or moved out of the area (the Section 8 waiting list has been closed for years).

6,800 additional people are on the waiting list for section 8 vouchers - now referred to as the Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) Program - which subsidize the renting from private landlords.

Democrats contended that the race in New York's 26th Congressional District — which the GOP had held since the 1960s — became competitive through their efforts tying Corwin to the House Republican budget plan that included a provision to turn Medicare into a voucher program.

[Updated at 6:52 p.m. with comment from NYCHA] Rep. Jerrold Nadler and his nine fellow New York Democrats are urging the New York City Housing Authority to halt the termination of Section 8 housing vouchers, in the wake of complaints and two lawsuits blaming the agency's new computer system for mistakenly dropping tenants from the pHousing Authority to halt the termination of Section 8 housing vouchers, in the wake of complaints and two lawsuits blaming the agency's new computer system for mistakenly dropping tenants from the phousing vouchers, in the wake of complaints and two lawsuits blaming the agency's new computer system for mistakenly dropping tenants from the program.

The Spring Creek Towers subsidized housing complex in East New York is rejecting potential tenants using rent vouchers from Mayor Bill de Blasio's Living in Communities Rental Assistance (LINC) program, a new lawsuit alleges.

Accessing data on myriad government programs, ranging from Head Start to housing vouchers to food stamps, has long been a politically sensitive subject.

Introduced in the House of Representatives in January 2017, H.R. 610 would replace parts of the 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act and would, among other changes, establish a voucher program «through which each state shall distribute block grant funds among local educational agencies.»

On Top of the News House passes Boehner's school vouchers bill USA Today 03/30/11 Behind the Headline Lost Opportunities Education Next Fall 2009 On Wednesday, the House passed a bill that would revive the school voucher program for students in Washington, D.C. Patrick Wolf, the principal investigator of the evaluation of the D.C. -LSB-...]

Its editor - in - chief is Paul E. Peterson, director of Harvard University's Program on Education Policy and Governance in the Graduate School of Education, and a fellow at the Hoover Institute (which is housed at Stanford University) is well - known for his support of school vouchers.

Yet once in office, his administration aggressively sought to defund the DC Opportunity Scholarship program, a federally funded model voucher program serving about 1,500 students in Washington, D.C. Early on, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs made it clear that Obama's open - mindedness had reached its expiration date: «The president doesn't believe that vouchers are a long - term answer to our educational problems.»

They were selected because their parents had volunteered for the Moving to Opportunity (MTO) program, an initiative to enable low - income families to use housing vouchers to escape high - poverty neighborhoods and move to mixed - income ones instead (see «New Kids on the Block» and «All Over the Map,» Fall 2007).

[6] The columns in the table address: a) the vehicle by which funding is delivered (e.g., tax expenditure vs. social program); b) the particulars of that funding vehicle (e.g., payments to individuals vs. program providers or states); c) the dollar value of the benefit to a family; d) whether the tax benefits are refundable (provide refunds to low income families in excess of their tax liability); e) whether the benefits are progressive (inverse to family income); f) the total annual program expenditure that is conditional on children (e.g., spending on housing vouchers that goes to families without children is excluded); and g) the estimated portion of the total expenditure that goes to children under five years of age.

(UPDATE: On Wednesday afternoon, the House of Representatives voted, 225 - 195, to reinstate the DC voucher program.

Altogether, the four Fayetteville private schools that house elite basketball programs — Trinity Christian, Freedom Christian, Fayetteville Christian Academy and Northwood Temple — have taken in nearly $ 3 million in school vouchers since 2014.

The House Finance Committee will hold a public hearing on SB 193, the bill that would create a statewide voucher program, on Tuesday, January 16 at 1:30 p.m. in LOB 210 - 211.

Texas — Texas» school voucher bill, the «Equal Opportunity Scholarship Program,» died before it even reached the Senate floor, thanks in no small part to the clear lack of support it received from state House members.

Parents, not the government, should determine a school's quality, according to Kevin Smith, a spokesman for House Speaker John A. Boehner (R - Ohio), a proud product of Catholic schools who designed the voucher program.

Republican House lawmakers successfully banded together Tuesday morning in an effort to block a proposal put forward by school voucher champion Rep. Paul «Skip» Stam that would have set up the state's new school voucher program for expansion.

Like the House, Senate lawmakers want to expand the Opportunity Scholarship program (school vouchers) by $ 6.8 million, bringing the total cost of the program to $ 17.6 million each year of the biennium.

In 2010 a voucher program passed the state Senate but died in the House primarily due to opposition from Chicago Democrats.

May 13, 2015: NSBA Joins NCPE in a Coalition Letter Opposing Reauthorization of the DC Voucher Program In a letter to the Chairman and Ranking Member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, NSBA and more than 50 organizations, as members of the National Coalition for Public Education (NCPE), urged Congress to oppose the reauthorization of the DC voucher pProgram In a letter to the Chairman and Ranking Member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, NSBA and more than 50 organizations, as members of the National Coalition for Public Education (NCPE), urged Congress to oppose the reauthorization of the DC voucher programprogram.

October 19, 2015: NSBA Joins NCPE in a Coalition Letter Opposing Reauthorization Legislation of the DC Voucher Program in the U.S. House of Representatives NSBA and 55 other organizations, as part of the National Coalition for Public Education, wrote this letter to the U.S. House of Representatives to voice opposition to H.R. 10, the reauthorization of the District of Columbia private school voucher pProgram in the U.S. House of Representatives NSBA and 55 other organizations, as part of the National Coalition for Public Education, wrote this letter to the U.S. House of Representatives to voice opposition to H.R. 10, the reauthorization of the District of Columbia private school voucher programprogram.

June 20, 2012: Letter to the House Appropriations Committee NSBA letter opposes funding for the failed D.C. voucher program.

In a letter to the Chairman and Ranking Member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, NSBA and more than 50 organizations, as members of the National Coalition for Public Education (NCPE), urged Congress to oppose the reauthorization of the DC school voucher program.

Barr said he would make LA Unified schools an attractive place to teach with teacher training programs, higher salaries and housing vouchers.

Bush passed a similar school - choice voucher program in 2001, which Rubio voted for while he served in the Florida House.

Meanwhile, the GOP - authored House package bundles in accountability reforms for the state's growing private school voucher program sought by Democrats, allocating about $ 900,000 to study voucher students» gains or losses and requiring that voucher recipients in grades 3 - 12 participate in one designated standardized test for comparison purposes.

The so - called D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program is the only federal voucher program in the country and has long been championed by Republican leaders such as former House Speaker John BProgram is the only federal voucher program in the country and has long been championed by Republican leaders such as former House Speaker John Bprogram in the country and has long been championed by Republican leaders such as former House Speaker John Boehner.

Rep. Glazier tried to remove funds for the voucher program with an amendment yesterday during the House Appropriations Education subcommittee meeting, but his attempt failed.

The House Oversight Committee is set to vote today on a bill that would fund a private - school voucher program for D.C. school children for another five years — and widen the pool of students eligible to take part in the program.

With both the House and Senate having passed their respective education bills, NSBA remains steadfast in working with lawmakers on both sides of the aisle to pass a final bill that restores community ownership to local school boards, maximizes federal funding for Title I, and excludes private vouchers, tuition tax credits, or existing voucher programs.

Given that the idea comes from more - rabid school choice activists such as Evers and Burke (along with University of Arkansas» Jay P. Greene) who want to shield voucher programs from any accountability, and would get the backing of traditionalists (who oppose testing altogether), eviscerating the testing mandate exposes Kline and House Republicans to charges (from other conservatives) of hypocrisy and being in bed with unions.

Paul Ryan seems set to succeed John Boehner as House Speaker as early as next week, but Mr. Boehner deserves credit for using his final days to renew and expand a successful school voucher program in Washington, D.C., that President Obama and Democrats in Congress have repeatedly tried to kill.

Reports circulated yesterday that President Obama had reached an agreement with House speaker John Boehner (R - OH) and Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I - CT) to not only sustain the DC school voucher program for another few years but to eliminate the legislative cap on student enrollment — theoretically allowing it to grow without limit.