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HUD Publishes Proposed Fair-Market Rents for Section 8 for 2011

Dennis Norman

Annually,HUD determines “fair market rents”which become effective October 1st each year and are used to determine rent amounts under the Housing Choice Voucher program,Housing Assistance Payment Contracts,Moderate Rehab programs as well as other Section 8 programs.

Earlier this month HUD published in the Federal Register it’s proposed fair [...]

Rental Housing Market Holding Up Well –At Least In the Lower Rent Ranges

Dennis Norman

Recently HUD published a report,“U.S. Rental Housing Characteristics:Supply,Vacancy,and Affordability“,which was packed with data about the rental housing market.  The data in the report clearly illustrates that the rental market is holding up pretty well,at least in the lower rent price-ranges,while the for-sale housing market has [...]

Subsidized Rentals to Low-Income Families

By:Dennis Norman

You may already be renting your homes to one or more of the 1.95 million families that receive rental assistance under HUD’s Housing Choice Voucher program,however if not you may want to consider doing so.

What is the Housing Choice Voucher program?  This is a program that was established in 1974 and known as [...]