{"id":1608,"date":"2024-07-27T07:00:06","date_gmt":"2024-07-27T11:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/?p=1608"},"modified":"2024-07-20T09:07:38","modified_gmt":"2024-07-20T13:07:38","slug":"can-direct-cash-payments-ease-the-housing-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/can-direct-cash-payments-ease-the-housing-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Direct Cash Payments Ease the Housing Crisis?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Renting a house these days has become so expensive that many people cannot afford it, so the federal government has been using a voucher system to help them.\u00a0 But the system has grown so complicated that many landlords refuse to accept them.\u00a0 Are direct cash payments the answer?\u00a0 It\u2019s being considered.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The federal government\u2019s new plan to (maybe) give renters straight cash<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy\/355088\/rent-tenants-cash-vouchers-housing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy\/355088\/rent-tenants-cash-vouchers-housing<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Related Reading<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><script src=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/widgets.js\" data-type=\"book\" data-affiliate-id=\"102171\" data-sku=\"9780847873982\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Renting a house these days has become so expensive that many people cannot afford it, so the federal government has been using a voucher system to help them.\u00a0 But the system has grown so complicated that many landlords refuse to accept them.\u00a0 Are direct cash payments the answer?\u00a0 It\u2019s being considered. The federal government\u2019s new&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/can-direct-cash-payments-ease-the-housing-crisis\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Can Direct Cash Payments Ease the Housing Crisis?&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,53,62,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-lifestyle","category-global","category-housing","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1608"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1631,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608\/revisions\/1631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}