Overwhelming demand briefly crashes Philadelphia Housing Authority website on first day of voucher program

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The Philadelphia Housing Authority's website briefly crashed on Monday as it opened its voucher program for affordable housing for the first time in over a decade.

President and CEO of the Philadelphia Housing Authority Kelvin Jeremiah told FOX 29's Monica Evans that once all the applications are submitted, the department will select 10,000 applicants through a lottery system. The first 2,000 will be given a voucher while the others will remain on the waitlist.

The vouchers pay about 70% of the applicants rent and allows them to look for homes in the private market that are not owned and operated by the Housing Authority.

 

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