Here?s how HUD?s new housing voucher rule affects recipients
Data from NYU shows that in most of the 24 metro areas impacted, voucher recipients would have more and better options When Ben Carson and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced its intention to delay by two years an Obama-era anti-segregation measure called the Small Area Fair Market Rent (SAFMR) rule, they cited, among other things, results from the rule?s pilot program. The findings showed that, in aggregate, the rule led to Section 8 voucher recipients having fewer overall affordable housing options.
But a new report from New York University?s Furman Center estimates the effects of the SAFMR rule on the 24 metro areas where the rule will be implemented?and contradicts the conclusion from the pilot program. It shows that, in aggregate, the number of units affordable to voucher recipients will increase by more than 9 percent, in addition to providing options outside of high-poverty, low-rent areas, an outcome which the rule was designed to achieve. The district court of Washington, D.C., overruled HUD?s attempt to delay the rule last week, and the department is now working to implement it. Here?s how the rule is designed to work:
Section 8 housing voucher recipients pay roughly 30 percent of their income on rent, and the rest of the rent is covered by the voucher. But the voucher will cover only up to ?fair market rent,? which currently is calculated by averaging an entire metro area?s rent.
This often includes the outer rims of a metro...
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