Choices: Housing Choice Vouchers: Stabilizing Lives and Strengthening Maine’s Economy

The Voucher Program is a proven success. It assists low-income families, the elderly, and the disabled in securing safe housing in the private market. These families experience increased economic security while small businesses benefit as well. This issue of Choices, provides an overview of this successful program and a call for Congressional action to expand it and make it even more effective.

by Dan Coyne, Esq., and Robyn Merrill, Esq.

Housing Choice Vouchers: Stabilizing Lives and Strengthening Maine’s Economy

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A Snapshot as of Summer 2010