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Federal prosecutors say executive Tracy Denise Jones used a fake name and a shell business to collect housing assistance and pandemic relief funds.

As if navigating the application process for Section 8 housing wasn’t difficult enough, now there are those hoping to keep such tenants out of decent homes. The Department of Housing and Urban ...

ATLANTA — An Atlanta Housing Authority administrator who oversaw a subsidy program for low-income renters, known as Section 8, has been charged with fraudulently obtaining some of that money for ...

Senior Atlanta Housing executive charged with multiple federal fraud offenses tied to housing aid, pandemic relief, and ...

A homeless woman whose federal housing voucher to help her pay rent was mistakenly dropped from the program before she could ever use it. A man who was erroneously sent someone else’s voucher. A ...

ANDERSON, S.C. — Inside a cheap hotel where poor people in this small town come because they have nowhere else, Sheila Simmons sits on a bed wondering if she might die soon. She eats crackers for ...

KISSIMMEE, Fla. — All Savitri Houston wants is to live in a safe home, one that won’t further antagonize her already-weak immune system. She says she was born with hidradenitis, a condition that clogs ...

Note: This story is part of a six-month investigation by USA TODAY-Southeast called "Segregated by Section 8," which followed public housing seekers and analyzed available data in new ways. Read more ...

Note: This story is part of a six-month investigation by USA TODAY-Southeast called "Segregated by Section 8," which followed public housing seekers and analyzed available data in new ways. Read more ...

Note: This story is part of a six-month investigation by USA TODAY-Southeast called "Segregated by Section 8," which followed public housing seekers and analyzed available data in new ways. Read more ...