![]() ![]() The vouchers help make housing affordable for low-income individuals: Voucher holders pay 30 percent of their income toward rent and utilities, while the government pays the remainder (up to the maximum allowable amount). Federally funded vouchers like hers (called housing choice vouchers) provided more than 2.2 million households and 5 million people with rental assistance in 2018. ![]() “You feel you’re being stigmatized based solely on having this form of rental payment.” She searched for a year before she finally found a landlord who would take her voucher. “You start to feel defeated,” Guthrie told me. But whenever she mentioned her voucher, landlords said they didn’t take them, or that they didn’t have any apartments available. She inquired at nearly 20 buildings that advertised apartments in her price range. Yet Guthrie, now 45 years old, found that none of the apartments where she applied would accept her voucher. She’d joined the waiting list five years prior, when she became unable to work full-time due to serious health issues (she received both kidney and pancreas transplants, and is also legally blind). When Tisha Guthrie learned in 2009 that she’d received a housing voucher that would help with her rent in Baltimore, she was excited. ![]()
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