Section 8 Housing Statistics
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Section 8 housing statistics. About the seattle housing authority section 8 housing choice voucher program. Generally these section 8 limits are based on 50 of area median. Users can also download the data including supplemental tables on low income renters federal funding and the location of urban.
This information does not purport to be complete or all inclusive. Of the 4 8 million u s. The information has been compiled from multiple data sources within fha or its contractors.
Most households pay 30 of their adjusted income for section 8 housing. The following is a summary of the types of vouchers managed and the monthly costs of each as of december 31st 2019. About 13 percent of all section 8 housing units are outside of metropolitan areas.
Hud provides interested researchers with access to the original data sets generated by pd r sponsored data collection efforts including the american housing survey median family incomes and income limits as well as microdata from research initiatives on topics such as housing discrimination the hud insured multifamily housing stock and the public housing population. The information regarding the assistance and section 8 contracts and properties is being furnished for the convenience of interested parties. For cdbg a person is considered to be of low income only if he or she is a member of a household whose income would qualify as very low income under the section 8 housing assistance payments program.
As of the huds most recent voucher management system report seattle housing authority manages 10 062 active housing choice vouchers. Over two million low income families participate in the section 8 program. Federal rental assistance programs enable about 5 million low income households in the united states to rent modest housing at an affordable cost.
Households receiving housing assistance there are about 2 1 million households who benefit from housing vouchers. Section 8 family data relates to a family s income number of members in the household demographic information and history of using government benefits.