housing voucher

A housing voucher is a voucher that can be spent on rented housing, such as Section 8 public housing in the United States, along with universal housing vouchers.{{cite magazine |url=http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2016/07/it_s_time_for_universal_housing_vouchers.html |title=It's time for universal housing vouchers. |newspaper=Slate.com |date=July 2016 |access-date= July 2, 2016|last1=Blumgart |first1=Jake }} The housing choice voucher programme allows families to move without the loss of housing assistance and choose a unit anywhere in the United States if they lived in the jurisdiction of public housing agency (PHA) issuing the voucher when they applied for assistance.{{Cite book|title=Encyclopedia of the City|last=Caves|first=R. W.|publisher=Routledge|year=2004|pages=360}}

The book Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City advocates that the U.S. government issue housing vouchers to families below a certain income threshold so that they pay no more than 30 percent of their income on housing.{{cite web |url=http://www.desertsun.com/story/opinion/columnists/2016/06/25/mathews-homelessness-universal-housing/86312822/ |title=A real solution to homelessness: Universal housing |newspaper=Desertsun.com |access-date= July 2, 2016}}Desmond, Matthew (2016). Evicted. PenguinRandomHouse.