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Article: Building assets: as Section 8 shrinks, can the Housing Authority help families move up and out?(Front Lines)
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- City Limits
- Article date:
- April 1, 2004
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FOUR YEARS AGO, Jara Correo moved, in more ways than one. The city's housing agency wanted her out of her Bronx apartment building so it could be fixed. It gave Correo a Section 8 voucher, to help her pay for a new apartment, which she found near Fordham Road. And with help from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and its Family Self Sufficiency Program, this former welfare recipient started saving money for the first time in her life.
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Usually, when Section 8-subsidized tenants start making more money, they pay more toward their rent, too. That can discourage some from seeking higher pay and make it nearly ...