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Search results for "Section 8" ...
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Section 8 Scandal
The series discovered that the person running the Section 8 housing program in New Orleans, was also living in the housing himself. This housing is intended for low income people and families, not those making "6-figure salaries". After this story, action was taken and new leadership was brought into the Section 8 program of the Housing Authority (HANO).
Tags: housing; government; Housing and Urban Development (HUD); federal; department; program; support
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section 8: Subsidizing Surburbia
"Thousands of poor people have moved out of Cincinnati's inner-city ghettos and settled into homes on middle-class, suburban streets- exactly the result a federal housing program intended. But that victory comes at a cost: Poor families with government subsidies that help pay the rent are creating new pockets of low-income housing in formerly stable, middle-class neighborhoods."
Tags: clustering; relocation; township; housing; property; real estate; urban development;
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Cashing in on Blight
This investigation exposed a development company that used vacant and neglected homes in low-income neighborhoods to make money by sellings them repeatedly at ever higher prices among a circle of investors, who took out larger loans each time. The company's stated goal of renovating the homes to rent them out was not accomplished.
Tags: real estate; housing; FBI; fraud; lending; CM Development; landlords; Section 8; CAR; FOIA
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Slain Pagan Targeted in Drug Probe; State Police Lose Track of Sex Offenders; Trapped in Despair; White Supremacy in the Internet Age; Delaware's Deadly Prisons; Wilmington's Deadly Streets; Deadly Force; Resisting Arrest
These eight investigations show Williams' commitment to crime reporting. They run the gamut from exploring the neo-Nazi presence on the internet to monitoring how effectively the police track sex offenders.
Tags: religion; paganism; drugs; sex offenders; low-income housing; Section 8 housing; white supremacy; Internet crimes; prisons; civil rights violations; police corruption
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Barrio Land Deal
In a poorer section of San Diego, a site was set aside for a development that would help a local rebirth. But the lot "sits vacant, surrounded by a fence, filled with trash." A KGTV investigation finds that while the city continues to pay an $8 million loan from Housing and Urban Development for the development of the area, nothing has happened on the property. The land continues to increase in value, and the developer continues to do nothing.
Tags: Property; development; vacant lot; urban renewal
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In Your Corner: 1-800-No-Agent Makes No Deal
KFOR's investigation found a former Okla. state senator running a fraudulent real estate agency that reneged on buyers' contracts. The state senator had previously served time in a federal prison for defrauding the Department of Housing and Urban Development . His new agency was receiving income from Section 8 rental properties despite a lifetime ban from receiving federal housing funds.
Tags: fraud; real estate; Housing and Urban Development; Section 8; real estate scam; former senator
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Subsidizing Failure
The Tribune analyzed inspection records of housing units rented to recipients of Section 8 housing vouchers and found widespread failure. They discovered that 6,000 Chicago landlords who receive Section 8 funds failed the majority of inspections of their properties. These violations led to thousands of evictions of tenants who were not responsible for the substandard conditions of their apartments.
Tags: Section 8; Chicago Housing Authority; Hope VI Program; federal vouchers
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Students Take Housing From The Poor
This investigation revealed that a lot of government housing near and in college towns is occupied by students. The HUD qualifications do not account for parents' income, so students often meet the income requirements and get away with renting an apartment for almost no money, while poor people who actually need the housing are put on waiting lists. Sometimes the students are athletes and already receive scholarships and financial aid. This story shares the perspective of the students, the tenants and the HUD officials.
Tags: Section 8; HUD; low income housing; real estate; poverty
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Flow of federal cash fed housing scheme. Investigation: Section 8 rent subsidies fuel questionable sales to investors, and poor tenants are left in limbo.
According to the author, "A mortgage broker manipulated a federal housing program meant for the poor to lure investors into a get rich quick scam that left a trail of bankruptcy and evictions." This story is a result of the reporter's eight month investigation. The article also includes a computer-generated map.
Tags: mortgage; broker; housing; federal housing program; map; scam; investors; cash; section 8; poor tenants; tenants
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Locked Out; Broken Homes
Shalhoup reports on how the renovation of eight public housing complexes "drifted off course - barring hundreds of poor families from decent housing and making room for middle-class tenants who pay full rent." The second story shows the fate of the displaced poor families, who received vouchers for reduced rent, and ended up in living in substandard buildings. The "negligence resulted in 50 families falling ill in one Section 8 apartment complex, due to a severe mold infection."
Tags: FOIA; Georgia Open Records Act; building codes; Department of Housing and Urban Development; HUD; city government