Word: voucherization
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...voucher system is what enabled Angela Henderson, 26, her husband Chris and two children to move last April from an apartment complex in Bloomington, Minn., to a duplex in Brooklyn Park, a Minneapolis suburb of ranch-style houses. The family is thrilled with the extra space and privacy. "You're not having all those people above and underneath you and across from you," says Henderson. "I can go and do the wash when I want to instead of waiting. It's more like a home." In Bloomington the Hendersons paid $435 a month for their apartment. In Brooklyn Park...
...impetus for the voucher program was a study by the Rand Corp. that reached just the conclusion that free-market advocates wanted to hear: rental units in many cities are plentiful but too expensive for lower-income people. Though liberal critics derided the idea as just another way to cut services to the poor, the Administration is now well along on a five-year, $200 million pilot program to test vouchers in 20 communities. To date 15,000 leases have been subsidized by vouchers; eventually the Government plans to subsidize 140,000 rental units...
...airport to find the special desk where the goods are inspected and then usually stand in a long line behind other bargain hunters. Since the refund check may be difficult or expensive to cash in the U.S., the best way to pay the VAT is with a credit-card voucher, which the storekeeper can destroy after receiving the form from Customs. On the other hand, U.S. Customs lies in wait at the other end. Returning travelers can bring in $400 worth of merchandise free, but they are charged 10% for the next $1,000, and a variety of rates, depending...
Since taking office, the Administration has virtually eliminated HUD's function as a builder of low-cost housing, choosing instead to spend $5.8 billion on modernizing existing units. Reagan has proposed a private-sector substitute: a housing voucher program, whereby poor families could shop for housing in the private rental market with federally subsidized cash vouchers. The Administration argues that the program will save the Government money and give people more control over their choice of dwellings. Critics charge, however, that the supply of private, low-cost housing is too small, and the opportunities for landlord price gouging...
...across questionable transactions, often no records existed--or the researchers had long since left Cambridge--to confirm their validity. A. Simone Reagor, director of Harvard's office of sponsored research, recalls one case where a professor took a legitimate trip to Africa but had no plane ticket or other voucher to prove he actually made the journey. Only when he produced his expired passport with visa stamps did the auditors approve the cost of the trip...