As Hotel Vouchers End, Disabled Vermonters Look to Living on Streets

As hotel vouchers end, disabled Vermonters look to living on streets

Uncertainty and despair were common threads of the stories told by people leaving hotels on Tuesday, as their time in a voucher program has ended.

Voucher confusion leaves 80-year-old woman and disabled son on brink of homelessness – Bronx Times

When 80-year-old Carole Bellitti and her 50-year-old son John received word in March confirming they had been pre-approved for the CityFHEPS housing voucher program for low-income households, they thought their prayers had been answered. Carole and John, who were evicted from their southeast Brooklyn home in March after falling behind in their rent, applied for CityFHEPS through the East Flatbush Homebase Program, a program run by the Department…