August 3, 2008 – FortWayneHousingNow.org, the customized portal to affordable housing information for Allen County, was featured in an article in The Journal Gazette about poverty and the journey of Section 8 in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

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From The Journal Gazette:

Section 8 Leaves Poor Unmoved

Efforts to scatter poverty meet unplanned hurdle

by Dan Stockman

When the nation’s massive public housing projects were built in the 1950s and 1960s, they were lauded as an answer to the problems of providing adequate shelter to the poor. It didn’t take long for the projects to become islands of poverty, beset by crime and hopelessness.

Enter Section 8, now known as the Housing Choice Voucher Program, a federal program started on a pilot basis in the 1970s as a way to end the concentrations of poverty. Read More...