Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson announced Wednesday a proposal that would increase rent payments for more than two million of the nation's poorest. The new low-income rent reform would require
In roughly three-quarters of the markets in the country, rent levels produced for 120 percent AMI would be at or above market rates. It’s not much of a restriction, especially since 50 percent of the rents would be market-rate. The changes are intended to increase financing flexibility for...
HUD issues uniform treatment of tax credit compliance fees in budget based rent increase requestsTatiana Gutierrez Abendschein
A family who is issued a housing voucher must find housing where the owner agrees to rent under the voucher program—and the rental unit must meet standards of health and safety that are determined by the public housing agency (PHA).7 ...
“If renters don’t have money to pay rent, landlords don’t have money, either,” Doug Quattrochi, executive director of the group MassLandlords told theBoston Globerecently. “That’s money that pays plumbers and electricians and mortgage bills. If they’re a senior on a fixed income, ...