Section 8
Subsidized rental program
Section 8 is a U.S. federal housing assistance program that subsidizes rent for low-income tenants.
Landlords receive payments directly from the government.
The term often appears as an adjective suggesting poverty or dysfunction: a Section 8 apartment, Section 8 housing.
In military slang, Section 8 refers to a discharge for mental unfitness—from a now-obsolete regulation number: He got a Section 8.
- housingDwellings or protective covering
- housing voucherGovernment aid for rent
- voucherRedeemable certificate for value
- subsidyFinancial assistance from government
- rental assistanceFinancial help for tenants
low income housing · landlord · HUD · low-income · rent · apartment · public housing · tenant · assistance · welfare · affordable · public · lease · waiting · list · eligibility · inspection · military
- rentingtenant, landlord, rent, rental, renter
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- assistance programsfood stamps, welfare checks, TANF, Medicaid, Medicare
Section 8homeownership
Legally possessing residential property
mortgage · private ownership · freehold · second home · vacation property
Section 8penthouse
Top-floor luxury apartment
gated community · McMansion · affluent neighborhood · exclusive neighborhood · Beverly Hills
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