NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — The Tennessee Housing Development Agency is working to expand access to affordable housing in the state for those who have an affordable housing voucher but cannot find a landlord who will accept it.
According to the agency, around 6,200 Tennesseans receive affordable housing vouchers, but around 600 struggle to find a landlord who takes them. The new project-based voucher program will allow the state to assign vouchers to new affordable housing developments to help ease the problem.
“It’s an effort to take some of the vouchers we do have and make them available for development to basically give a property that has a unit that will have that voucher assigned to that unit, so it doesn’t have to be somebody who finds it,” Pasquel McLeod with the TN Housing Development Agency said…