Assistance program
Rural Development Multi-Family Housing Rural Housing Voucher Program
$289.7 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Rural Housing Service, Agriculture, Department of
- Assistance
- Direct Payments for Specified Use
- CFDA number
- 10.448
- What it does
- The Rural Housing Voucher Demonstration program is designed to provide rental housing assistance vouchers to tenants in properties that pay off their Rural Development mortgage. The amount of this subsidy is the difference between the comparable market rent and the amount of rent being paid by the tenant when pay off occurs. Pay off properties may be located anywhere in the 50 states, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Guam.
- Who benefits
- Applicants must be citizens, U.S. non-citizen nationals or qualified aliens and have an adjusted household income at or below 80 percent of area median income as determined annually by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to be eligible for a rural housing voucher.
- Who applies
- Applicants must (a) be residing in the Section 515 project on the date of the pay off of the Section 515 loan or upon foreclosure by Rural Development; (b) the date of the pay off or foreclosure must be after September 30, 2005; (c) as required by 42 U.S.C. 1436a the tenant must be a citizen, U.S. non-citizen national or qualified alien and will so provide proof of citizenship.
- Authorized by
- Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2012 (Public Law 112-55) for the Rural Development Voucher Program as authorized under Section 542 of the Housing Act of 1949, as amended, 42 U.S.C. 1471 et. seq. (without regard to Section 542(b)).
Committed by fiscal year
* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
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- Committed through this program
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Direct payments