This legislation would create additional 500,000 housing vouchers specifically designed for low-income families with young children.
This legislation would create additional 500,000 housing vouchers specifically designed for low-income families with young children to expand their access to neighborhoods of opportunity with high-performing schools, strong job prospects, and other resources. It prioritizes these new vouchers for low-income pregnant women and families with children under age 6 who either have a recent history of homelessness or housing instability, or live in an area of concentrated poverty (or are at risk of being displaced from an opportunity area). These new vouchers would be coupled with counseling and services that have a proven track record of supporting parents and helping families move out of neighborhoods of concentrated poverty. These would be evenly phased in over five years.
This legislation has been authored by Senators Todd Young (R-IN) and Chris Van Hollen (D-MD)