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An '''income-based housing benefit''' is a government program which provides some type of financial or tax support for housing use to individuals who qualify on the basis of low income. By contrast, other major housing programs in the United States provide benefits to homeowners, typically regardless of income (e.g. [[Home_mortgage_interest_deduction|home mortgage interest deduction]]), or help fund development of housing (e.g. [[Low-Income_Housing_Tax_Credit|Low-Income Housing Tax Credit]]), or help fund housing-related service providers (e.g. homelessness programs).
''(note: this term was coined by YIMBYwiki, for apparent lack of a suitable existing one, or one we've found yet. It describes a category which is best-known in the United States in the example of the [[#Housing_Choice_Voucher_Program|Housing Choice Voucher Program]], but has other existing and proposed cases as described below, and various other possible forms. Programs of this type are today increasingly advocated as a key redirection of US federal housing policy, particularly''' '''due to the large impact of Matthew Desmond's 2016 book, [http://www.evictedbook.com/ Evicted]. We suggest this category to help gather and
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