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A federal program that helps low income families pay for housing is running into trouble.

The result is that as many as 1800 New Hampshire families could lose their homes.

The program is called Section 8.

It provides payment vouchers to pay the difference between the cost of rent and what people can afford to pay.

The budgeting change could have an impact on New Hampshire families within weeks.

And in the long term, the Bush administration is considering revising the program entirely.

NHPR Correspondent Priscilla Huff reports from Washington.