Assistance program
Project-Based Rental Assistance (PBRA)
$125.2 Billion committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Asst Secretary for Housing--Federal Housing Commissioner, Housing and Urban Development, Department of
- Assistance
- Direct Payments for Specified Use
- CFDA number
- 14.195
- What it does
- To provide rental assistance to very low income individuals and families enabling them to live in affordable decent, safe and sanitary housing.
- Who benefits
- Families currently receiving assistance as long as their income does not exceed 80 percent of area median income adjusted for smaller or larger families.
- Who applies
- No funding is available to new applicants. Funding is currently available only for the owners of record of projects with an existing expiring project-based Section 8 contract. The project must meet minimum decent, safe, and sanitary standards.
- Authorized by
- United States Housing Act of 1937, Section 8(c)(9).
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.
Top recipients
By dollars committed.
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
Most programs pay out one way — a grant, or a direct payment to individuals; the flow bar only appears when a program genuinely mixes types.
- Some recipients aren't itemized
For entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare, the government reports one aggregate instead of naming tens of millions of people, so the recipient roster isn't part of the public record.
- Awards, counted once
An award count is the number of distinct awards with at least one action that year — each counted once, however many times it was amended.
- The colored bars
Every bar on this page splits by how the money moves:
Direct payments