05/20/2025
Posted • If this affects you. Start saving your money. 🗣️ • NEW— Boston housing officials, looking at potentially catastrophic cuts to federal subsidies that help keep low-income residents in their homes, are alerting landlords to a potential Section 8 crisis and asking that they consider freezing or even reducing rents for some 18,000 vulnerable households in Boston.
They also want impacted Boston property owners — many of them in Dorchester and Mattapan—to lobby Congress and the White House to protect the subsidies.
“If the cut that was proposed in the president’s budget were to be ratified by Congress, the BHA would have to terminate almost 8,000 vouchers,” said Kenzie Bok, the commissioner of the Boston Housing Authority (BHA). “We’d be talking about 8,000 families [going] back into homelessness. We looked at the data and it would be about 11,000 children we’d be making homeless again in our region. So, it’s just a reality that we cannot let come to pass.”
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