In the southern African nation of Eswatini, cash and voucher assistance is making a real difference in people's lives, particularly those most vulnerable after crisis. 'It's not just about ...

Why does the IRC give cash and voucher assistance? Since the 1940s, the IRC has recognised the importance of providing direct cash assistance to people in need, starting with Varian Fry and his team ...

That program, which ran for longer than a decade in a dozen U.S. cities, provided cash assistance for housing directly to more than 14,000 low-income families.

Cash payments for housing, researchers say, have a slew of benefits, and cut the red tape and landlord discrimination associated with vouchers.

Congress funded the emergency vouchers in 2021 - one of many COVID-19-era additions to the nation’s social safety net - with a lump sum of $5 billion. The federal housing department was given ...

FAIRFIELD, Conn. (July 29, 2024) – Global humanitarian organization Save the Children and Fedi, Inc., a developer of global bitcoin adoption technology, announced today a groundbreaking collaboration ...

A $5 billion pot of federal money set aside to help people on the verge of homelessness pay the rent is running out of cash — and no one has a plan to keep the roughly 60,000 renters, more than ...

Cash assistance includes both larger, one-time grants for emergency needs like rent (also known as one-shot deals) and small, regular payments for the lowest-income New Yorkers, which vary depending ...

More than 100,000 low-income households currently use the vouchers in New York City alone, many of them elderly, disabled, or with children. Section 8 is a godsend in a city like ours, with its ...

A $5 billion pot of federal money set aside to help people on the verge of homelessness pay the rent is running out of cash — and no one has a plan to keep the roughly 60,000 renters, more than 15,000 ...

Federal housing authorities announced that a COVID-era emergency housing voucher is running out of cash — and there’s no plan to save it. This story was originally published by CalMatters ...