This is both a huge victory, getting vouchers into people's hands for the first time is an incredible win. But the crisis means we need much more. With a housing voucher, households typically spend 30 percent of their income on rent and the government pays the landlord the rest.
"They were able to get me to a place where I qualified for a mortgage, and then they started looking for money for me, and I was able to become a recipient of the money that was available, so here I am. So in May, I officially became a homeowner," Evans said.
