Mainstream 811 Voucher Renewals

What this funds

The 2027 Budget includes funding for the following activities: Vouchers; this request is an increase of $608 million from the 2026 appropriation; more than provided in the 2026 appropriation. The HCV program is an essential component of the Federal housing strategy for people in need. Housing Choice Vouchers offer low- and extremely low-income families improved affordable housing options in the private market and access to greater economic opportunities. The option to use project-based vouchers helps create and preserve deeply affordable units available to families in The HCV program partners with local PHAs and landlords to provide housing to our Nation's neediest families. Of the families currently receiving HCV assistance:  80 percent are extremely low-income;  35 percent of households served have an elderly head of household;  22 percent have a non-elderly disabled head of household; and  32 percent of families served have female heads of household with children. Without rental assistance, these families face a heightened risk of housing instability and homelessness and must often forgo other life necessities, such as food, clothing, and medicine HCV assistance is primarily tenant-based assistance, which means the assistance is not permanently tied to a particular unit or project, but rather to an individual household. The household is responsible for finding a suitable

Extracted from 2027 CJ Program TBRA, p. 2. Verbatim; nothing here is paraphrased. This is a different document from the one the figures above were read off — the agency prints this line's dollars in a summary table and its justification elsewhere.

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