Section 8, otherwise known as a housing choice voucher program, is a wonderful program from the Federal Government. Vouchers financially assist families with rent and prevents homelessness and evictions.

The largest problem with Section 8 is that families must wait years, most of the time well over a decade, to fully qualify for voucher. The city can do it better and faster by creating its own housing choice voucher program. I will work to fund and create the city’s own housing choice voucher program and will be in line with the city’s initiative to prevent homelessness.

We need to keep families housed and should not tolerate a system that waits for years to deliver the needed help.