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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWill the government shutdown affect Section 8 rent payments?
I'm 72, diasabled, on Social Security,
and Section 8 pays a portion of my rent.
I've read conflicting stories online as to whether the shutdown will stop the Section 8 payments
and tenants could be evicted because of that.
Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)I honestly don't know.
Shell_Seas
(3,318 posts)wroberts189
(4,105 posts)Solly Mack
(90,740 posts)left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)Private landlords who participate in the Section 8 voucher program offer affordable housing to low-income tenants in return for monthly rental subsidies from local housing authorities funded by the federal government.
If that money dries up, landlords could start to evict people, said Chad Williams, executive director of the Southern Nevada Regional Housing Authority.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)The last long shut down this type of situation did happen.
dubyadiprecession
(5,613 posts)They should know, that theyll eventually get paid by the government.
haele
(12,581 posts)Some of them - especially the smaller rental property owners, have just found out some of the rental property tax breaks went away with last year's "Tax Overhaul" - the only owners who have kept their breaks tend to be larger lot owners and LLC owners.
My son-in-law's grandparents are owners like that - they've accepted a few tenants out of the 35 or so condo units they own under a couple different subsidized housing programs, but after talking to their financial advisor doing the end of the year books, they've just decided to unload all the properties and cash out because they're now looking at losing money - between the second/third mortgages they put on those properties and the loss of some significant federal tax deductions this year.
They need full price to get out of the business with enough to set up a decent retirement plan - which means getting rid of any subsidized tenants (including military under BAQ/VHA) to make their units look more attractive to other investment LLC's after a good clean-up and quick refurb. in those units to turn them into "Luxury Condo Apartments".
Haele
Doreen
(11,686 posts)I live in a HUD and another federal organization who's name I can not remember. Since HUD and this other organization operates in all states it is not just state run. I am disabled and only 51 ( not a senior yet ) with disabilities you can not see or recognize unless you have talked to me face to face for some time and that makes it look like to some people that I am just abusing the system. Those like me are the first to go but no one seems to recognize that. NO, I am not saying that seniors are less important because they are most definantly not less. I am just saying what I have seen and heard about people like me from parts of the general public all these years. I have personally been told that I am robbing the system and am lying about being disabled. I will say I do get more concerned about the seniors but I also want people to realize that people like me are in danger also.
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)One Senator's office told me if the shut down continues, Section 8 will not be paid,
and it will be up to individual landlords if they want to wait for future payments,
or begin issuing 'Three day eviction' notices for nonpayment of rent.
The other Senator's office knew nothing.
Th U.S. Representative's office put me on hold while they sought the answer, and then hung up.
I did get a call from my Section 8 "worker" who said they have heard nothing,
but no one in her office has been furloughed.