A neighborhood’s new anti-Section 8 rules will push many Black residents out of a North Texas suburb

Evora Sykes, left, and Evette Townsend arrange Sykes' belongings on the front porch of her home in Providence Village on June 30. Sykes and her children moved into Providence Village four years ago. Now a new rule by the homeowners association is forcing them, and other tenants who use Section 8 housing vouchers, to move. (Credit: Emil Lippe for The Texas Tribune)

PROVIDENCE VILLAGE — By the time Revisha Threats moved into a two-story home in this North Texas hamlet last year, she had filled out more than 100 applications to find a home for her and her four children.

Threats, 31, said she wanted a home “somewhere good and humble for my kids” as she tried to escape an abusive relationship in Atlanta. She considered joining her sister in California but worried she couldn’t afford that state’s high rents, even with help through the federal housing choice voucher program, widely referred to as Section 8, that subsidizes a portion of a low-income household’s rent.