Dollars for bedrooms: Milking subsidy for maximum value
Landlords optimize rental voucher revenue by reconfiguring apartment layouts to add bedrooms, using skylights and relocating living spaces to meet window requirements and maximize CityFHEPS voucher payments.
The Daily Dirt: On vouchers, city has a screw loose
City inspection bureaucracy prevents voucher holders from renting otherwise-legal apartments by failing units for trivial defects and delaying reinspections.
Families are trapped in motels. Can real estate free them?
Long-term county-funded motel placements for low-income families are costly, inappropriate for children, and reflect misaligned housing policy and affordability metrics.