Angie Atkins has been on a waitlist for a federal housing voucher for the better part of a decade. During that time, her rent in northwest Philadelphia kept rising, year after year, until it was ...

The Department of Housing and Urban Development is exploring the idea of giving struggling Americans cash aid instead of vouchers. That might seem like an unlikely, bold new move for the federal ...

Housing vouchers are the main way the U.S. helps very low income renters. But they're hard to use, so the federal housing agency is looking into giving people cash instead. You may have heard how lots ...

Angie Atkins, 37, lives with her two kids in an apartment in northwest Philadelphia. She's been on a waitlist for a federal housing voucher, which would help subsidize her rent, for about seven years.

You may have heard how lots of cities have been giving people cash to fight poverty. Well, now the federal government is exploring doing that on a far bigger scale to help people pay rent. It could ...