Lucy Tompkins
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Aug 14, 2024 |
aol.com | Lucy Tompkins
Updated August 14, 2024 at 12:59 PMBy the time Kimberly Loper, 28, got the news that she would receive a Section 8 voucher – a coveted federal rental subsidy for low-income families – she had been on the waitlist for three years. Now, she was homeless with her partner and their two sons, a 7-year-old and a baby whose first address was a shelter in Brooklyn, New York. The voucher was their golden ticket. It promised stability after years of scraping by.
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Aug 13, 2024 |
msn.com | Lucy Tompkins
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Aug 13, 2024 |
usatoday.com | Lucy Tompkins
By the time Kimberly Loper, 28, got the news that she would receive a Section 8 voucher – a coveted federal rental subsidy for low-income families – she had been on the waitlist for three years. Now, she was homeless with her partner and their two sons, a 7-year-old and a baby whose first address was a shelter in Brooklyn, New York. The voucher was their golden ticket. It promised stability after years of scraping by.
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Jan 10, 2024 |
texasstandard.org | Lucy Tompkins |Eli Durst
In the next few years, Community First is poised to grow to nearly 2,000 homes across three locations, which would make it by far the nation’s largest project of this kind, big enough to permanently house about half of Austin’s chronically homeless population. Tiny-home villages for people who have been homeless have existed on a small scale for several decades, but have recently become a popular approach to addressing surging homelessness.
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