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HUD Expands More Housing Choices to a Total of 800,000 Households with Rental Assistance
Today, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced an action that will cover expanded housing and neighborhood choices for more than 800,000 total households using Housing Choice Vouchers to find and secure affordable housing.
Today, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced an action that will cover expanded housing and neighborhood choices for more than 800,000 total households using Housing Choice Vouchers to find and secure affordable housing. Today's action requires an additional 41 metropolitan areas that cover more than 440,000 housing vouchers to use Small Area Fair Market Rents (SAFMR) under HUD's 2016 Small Area Fair Market Rent Final Rule, joining 24 metropolitan areas that covered almost 370,000 vouchers and bringing the total number of metropolitan areas covered by the rule to 65 covering more than 800,000 households (or 45% of families in the Housing Choice Voucher program). >> Read More
