Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers
To aid very low income families in obtaining decent, safe, and sanitary rental housing.
For Welfare-to-Work rental vouchers, families must also meet special welfare-to-work criteria.
HUD regulations merged the former Section 8 Rental Voucher program (14.855) with the former Section 8 Certificate
program (14.857).
Section 502 of the Public Housing Reform Act states that a purpose of the legislation is "consolidating the voucher and certificate programs for rental assistance under Section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (the "USHA") into a single market-driven program that will assist in making tenant-based rental assistance more successful at helping low-income families obtain affordable housing and will increase housing choice for low-income families."
Agency - Department of Housing and Urban Development
Office - HUD Field Office listed in the Catalog Address Appendix IV that has jurisdiction over the area in which the dwellings are located.
Approximately two million families receive voucher program assistance.
Uses and Use Restrictions
Provides housing assistance payments to participating owners on behalf of eligible tenants to provide decent, safe, and sanitary housing for very low income families at rents they can afford.
Housing assistance payments are generally the difference between the local payment standard and 30 percent of the family's adjusted income.
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