Assistance program
Lower Income Housing Assistance Program Section 8 Moderate Rehabilitation
$886.9 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing, Housing and Urban Development, Department of
- Assistance
- Direct Payments for Specified Use
- CFDA number
- 14.856
- What it does
- The Moderate Rehabilitation (Mod Rehab) program was designed in 1978 to be an expansion of the rental certificate program. The rental certificate program was initially amended to permit moderate levels of rehabilitation to upgrade and preserve the nation's housing stock.
- Who benefits
- Very low-income families (whose income does not exceed 50 percent of the median income for the area as determined by the Secretary with adjustments for smaller and larger families) and, on an exception basis, lower income families (whose income does not exceed 80 percent of the median income for the area adjusted for small and large families). A very low income or, on an exception basis, lower income single person who is elderly, disabled or handicapped, displaced, or the remaining member of an eligible tenant family is also eligible.
- Who applies
- An authorized Public Housing Agency (any State, county, municipality or other governmental entity or public body (or agency or instrumentality thereof).
- Authorized by
- Housing Act of 1937;
- Further Consolidated Appropriations Act 2020
- Further Consolidated Appropriations Act 2021
- Further Consolidated Appropriations Act 2022
- Public Law 117-328
- Program site
- http://www.hud.gov/progdesc/pihindx.html. ↗
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