There is no “right way” to set up a housing voucher.
That is why Milton Friedman and other conservative economists proposed basic income instead of housing vouchers and hundreds of other benefits for the “poor”.
Any system of vouchers requires a huge bureaucracy to administer and monitor the system and is subject to an amazing array of abuses by both landlords and tenants.
Give Facebook boy a call. He’s ponying up $45 million for cheap housing and excessive incarceration. You may get him to help you out.
Counter-proposal:
Replace the housing voucher with a moving voucher.
If you can’t afford to live somewhere, find somewhere you can. Big cities are expensive for a _reason_. The biggest complaint I get about “move” is “they can’t afford to” - well, they can’t afford to live where they are either, so instead of trying to keep them there (which increases prices by increasing the supply of money available to pay for it), give ‘em a one-way ticket to wherever they like, moving van service included.
Don’t rent too many apartments, do you?
Am curious why you differentiate “male child” from “female child” as a distinction without a difference.
Should have stopped here:
“It is silly for Uncle Sam to pay glamour city rents.” Period.
Or even better:
“It is silly for Uncle Sam to pay rents.”
Reducing big problems sometimes has to be done in small steps.
Alternate proposal: put ALL “means tested” federal programs into one department. Put a cap on the total amount of aid a family can get. You want a section 8 voucher in an expensive place? Your food stamps or whatever get reduced.