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Section 8 also authorizes a variety of "project-based" rental assistance programs, under which the owner reserves some or all of the units in a building for low-income tenants, in return for a federal government guarantee to make up the difference between the tenant's contribution and the rent in the owner's contract with the government. A tenant who leaves a subsidized project will lose access to the project-based subsidy. &nbsp;(Wikipedia).&nbsp;<br/> &nbsp;
 
== Housing Benefit (UK)&nbsp; ==
 
Housing Benefit is a means tested social security benefit in the UK that is intended to help meet housing costs for rented accommodation. It is the second biggest item in the Department for Work and Pensions' budget after the state pension, totalling £23.8 billion in 2013–14. &nbsp;[1more: Wikipedia: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing_Benefit Housing Benefit]].&nbsp;
 
== <br/> Refundable housing tax credit ==
 
proposed in&nbsp;''City Observatory,&nbsp;''2016, by Daniel Hertz.&nbsp;
 
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== FAIR (Federal Assistance In Rental) Credit&nbsp; ==
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== Housing Benefit (UK)&nbsp; ==
 
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Housing Benefit is a means tested social security benefit in the UK that is intended to help meet housing costs for rented accommodation. It is the second biggest item in the Department for Work and Pensions' budget after the state pension, totalling £23.8 billion in 2013–14.[1]
 
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== References&nbsp; ==
 
*Hertz, Daniel. [http://cityobservatory.org/make-housing-vouchers-an-entitlement-we-can-afford-it/ "Make housing vouchers an entitlement—we can afford it."] City Observatory, 2016-01-05.&nbsp;http://cityobservatory.org/make-housing-vouchers-an-entitlement-we-can-afford-it/<br/> &nbsp;
*Hertz, Daniel. [http://cityobservatory.org/low-income-housing-tax/ "Why not make housing assistance to the low-income as easy as assistance to the high-income?"] City Observatory, 2016-01-21. &nbsp;http://cityobservatory.org/low-income-housing-tax/.&nbsp;<br/> &nbsp;
*Galante, Carol,&nbsp;Carolina K. Reid, and Nathaniel Decker. [http://ternercenter.berkeley.edu/fair-tax-credit "The Fair Tax Credit: A Proposal For a Federal Assistance in Rental Credit to Support Low-Income Renters."] Terner Center for Housing Innovation,&nbsp;November 2016.&nbsp;http://ternercenter.berkeley.edu/fair-tax-credit.&nbsp;
 
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