‘There just aren’t enough vouchers’: COVID-19 stresses Oklahoma’s already threadbare affordable housing system
Section 8 waitlists are in the thousands, and they’re expected to grow during economic fallout from the pandemic.
By Mollie Bryant for Big If True
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