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There are only ~2 million section 8 housing vouchers available for ~330 million people. So no way 8% of the population are receiving them. (8% of 330 million
by DarylZero 5y ago
There are only ~2 million section 8 housing vouchers available for ~330 million people. So no way 8% of the population are receiving them.
(8% of 330 million is 26 million, so for 2 million vouchers, the average household size for recipients would have to be ~13.)
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- mlyle 5y agoI screwed up-- there's about 10.2 million people receiving housing assistance, so about 3% of pop. But your number is off in the other direction: (counts are all households) 2.2 million housing choice vouchers, but another 900k public housing and another 1.2 million households of section 8 project-based housing (and about 400k in other programs), totaling 4.8M households.