U.S Housing Policy

Running Head : U .S HOUSING POLICY

U .S Housing Policy

Executive Summary

The deals with one of the most important program of the US housing Policy . The program taken for this is the Family Self Sufficiency Program . The Family Self Sufficiency Program is the federal government initiative to reduce the burden of the voucher families by making them self sufficient and providing employment opportunities . This program of the government has involved Department of Hosing Urban Development (HUD as well as public housing agencies (PHA ) and welfare organizations for this purpose

p Through this program , the voucher families i .e . families getting the section 8 housing assistance vouchers are assisted in acquiring the vocational training and job placement services through which they can get independence of the assistance that has been provided to them by the federal government . The government through the Department of Hosing Urban Development has been giving several incentives to the public housing agencies (PHA ) to assist these families

This provides a brief background of the program started by the government . This program was started by the government through a legislation passed in 1990 . The aim of this law was to encourage employment and savings among certain sections of the society which were getting the assistance of the federal government . This also looks at the current status of this family self sufficiency program Initially , the program did not receive a lot of enrollment of the resident families in HCV and public housing agencies . But due...