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Housing advocates warn cuts to Section 8 and emergency vouchers could fuel homelessness
Summary
Service providers told the Council cuts or eliminations of federal housing supports — including Emergency Housing Vouchers and other HUD streams — would push thousands of households toward homelessness and urged city contingency funding and planning.
Housing and homelessness providers told the City Council that threats to federal housing support would have immediate consequences for sheltered and at‑risk households.
Jade Vasquez, policy director at WIN, testified that federal cuts to HUD programs, reductions in Section 8 and elimination of Emergency Housing Vouchers (EHV) would directly imperil families in shelter and those with vouchers. WIN asked the city to allocate $263 million to preserve vouchers for…
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