End of Emergency Housing Voucher Program Will Increase Homelessness in Pennsylvania - Bucks County Beacon

End of Emergency Housing Voucher Program Will Increase Homelessness in Pennsylvania - Bucks County Beacon

Since the spring of 2021, 60,000 U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Emergency Housing Vouchers (EHV) – 1,507 in Pennsylvania – have been available for persons in desperate need of housing. Now, that short-lived program is coming to an end. Even with HUD’s inadequate counting, back in January 2021, agencies in the commonwealth – on a single night – identified nearly 10 times that number of people on the street and in shelters, 1,507 voucher…