Assistance program
Rent Supplements Rental Housing for Lower Income Families
-$885,867 committed in FY2018–FY2022
- Agency
- Asst Secretary for Housing--Federal Housing Commissioner, Housing and Urban Development, Department of
- Assistance
- Direct Payments for Specified Use
- CFDA number
- 14.149
- What it does
- To make quality rental housing available to low income families at a cost they can afford.
- Who benefits
- Families incomes must be within the income limits prescribed for admission to Section 8 housing in order to qualify for benefits under this program. Families may continue in occupancy if 30 percent of monthly income exceeds the market rent.
- Who applies
- Eligible sponsors included nonprofit, cooperative, builder-seller, investor-sponsor, and limited-distribution mortgagors.
- Authorized by
- Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965, Public Law 89-117, 12 U.S.C. 1701(s).
Committed by fiscal year
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How to read these numbers
- Committed through this program
Money committed under this assistance listing (its CFDA program), counted in the year each action happened.
- How it's paid
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- Some recipients aren't itemized
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- Awards, counted once
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- The colored bars
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Direct payments