In 2025, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) implemented several administrative, financial, and operational updates to the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) Program. While ...

Social media rumors falsely claim Section 8 housing assistance will have a two-year cap or be ended entirely. President Trump's 2026 budget proposes overhauling Section 8 and other HUD programs, but ...

The Columbus Metropolitan Housing Authority — through a contractor — failed to ensure all Section 8 housing met quality standards, according to a new federal report. The report comes a month after the ...

Under new rules, public housing authorities and Section 8 rental assistance property owners could implement work requirements ...

Low-income households which need assistance paying monthly rent may qualify for Section 8 Housing. Although 38 million people in the U.S. lived in poverty in 2022, USAFacts noted that just over 9 ...

As if navigating the application process for Section 8 housing wasn’t difficult enough, now there are those hoping to keep such tenants out of decent homes. The Department of Housing and Urban ...

A joint study by RAND and UC Berkeley's Terner Center found that while the Housing Choice Voucher program assists over 2 million families annually, thousands of vouchers go unused due to high costs ...

In August 2025, internet users shared a rumor that U.S. President Donald Trump had capped housing rental assistance to two years. The measure was a real part of the discretionary budget proposal for ...

This article was produced by Capital & Main. It is published here with permission. More than 5 million people rely on Section 8, the nation’s largest housing assistance program, to help pay their rent ...