1.   A separate subsidy, a rent voucher, goes directly to poor families that apply it to apartments of their choice.

2.   But the inspector general wants the agency to stop now, allow owners to prepay if they want, and provide rent vouchers to tenants displaced in the process.

3.   Finally the bill would provide rent vouchers to low-income tenants whose rents rise after prepayments.

4.   If so, federal policy dictates that they be closed, and the tenants assigned rent vouchers instead.

5.   In one, low-income people directly receive government rent vouchers and then go into the community to find housing on their own.

6.   Supporters said the legislation would help tenants move from run-down public housing to privately owned properties by providing rent subsidy vouchers.

7.   The economics of her life had been forcing her into making a hard choice that the rent voucher headed off.

8.   The families who get the limited number of rent vouchers are usually headed by single mothers with low incomes.