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HUD Exchange HOME data
Publisher: HUD CPD
United States · Published date not recorded · Last fetched 2026-09-06 · 0 linked current rules
URL repaired 2026-08-27: previous address https://www.hudexchange.info/programs/home/home-data/ no longer served it. Edition confirmed on the document's own face before repointing -- The HOME Reports section of this page indexes the full current set, including "HOME National Production Reports" (monthly cumulative summary of HOME data by federal fiscal year -- allocations, commitments, disbursements, leveraging ratios, unit completions by activity type and tenure) and "Post 2011 HOME Activities Reports" (monthly per-state activity-level extracts from IDIS), which together are what the record's title "HOME Program Production and Activity Data" names. Underlying files confirmed live, e.g. files.hudexchange.info/reports/published/HOME_Prod_Natl_20250131.pdf and per-state HOME_Act_State_2012_<ST>_20240430.xls. The record pins no version or published date.
HUD Exchange - HOME Program
Publisher: HUD Office of Community Planning and Development
United States · Published date not recorded · Last fetched 2026-09-06 · 0 linked current rules
HOMEfires Vol. 13 No. 2, May 2016, revised August 2016
Publisher: HUD Office of Community Planning and Development
United States · Published 2016-08-01 · Last fetched 2026-09-06 · 1 linked current rules
City and County of Denver Department of Housing Stability, Equitable Fair Marketing Policies and Procedures, Non-HUD Funded Projects, last updated September 1, 2023, 3 pp.
Publisher: City and County of Denver Department of Housing Stability (HOST), Division of Opportunity
Denver, CO · Published 2023-09-01 · Last fetched 2026-09-06 · 1 linked current rules
3 pages, 189,376 bytes, sha256 62e279ef235a99fadb9c704f58e0aea8a450af5364abbc4364d4194070b274b2, fetched 2026-08-29. The date is off the document's own header block, which prints 'Last Updated: 9/1/2023' and is signed by the Deputy Director of Opportunity. Its stated applicability is broader than the Mandatory Affordable Housing Ordinance: 'all projects that provide income-restricted affordable dwelling units without using HUD financing and that are created as a result of Mandatory Affordable Housing requirements, Inclusionary Housing Ordinance Requirements, or through an executed agreement.' The reference to 'Inclusionary Housing Ordinance Requirements' is to Denver's PRIOR inclusionary regime, which the Mandatory Affordable Housing Ordinance replaced; units produced under it are still live and still marketed under this policy. The eight preference categories on page 3 are expressly a 'Fair Selection Process for Prospective Affordable Ownership Unit Purchasers' and reach ownership units only -- there is no published lottery or waiting-list order for Denver rental units.
WHEDA HOTMA Policies Matrix, version 2.0, revised May 20, 2024
Publisher: Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority
Wisconsin · Published 2024-05-20 · Last fetched 2026-09-13 · 3 linked current rules
Four-page agency matrix. Historical dollar thresholds and rates are year-specific; do not reuse them as current amounts. Reviewed September 13, 2026.
Notice H 2025-07
Publisher: HUD Office of Multifamily Housing
United States · Published 2025-12-17 · Last fetched 2026-09-13 · 1 linked current rules
Notice H 2025-07, sections 1–3, extends full HOTMA compliance for covered Multifamily Housing income certifications to January 1, 2027 and supersedes Notices H 2024-09 and H 2025-03. Editorial correction September 13, 2026: replaced the general HOTMA landing-page URL with the verified notice PDF. Early-adoption procedures are addressed in separate HUD implementation guidance, not this one-page date notice.
Notice H 2026-05 / PIH 2026-09, issued April 13, 2026
Publisher: HUD Office of Housing and Office of Public and Indian Housing
United States · Published 2026-04-13 · Last fetched 2026-09-13 · 1 linked current rules
Reviewed both pages on 2026-09-13. This is the separate amendment announcement; the consolidated Revision 3 notice is already indexed as src.hud.notice_h_2023_10_rev3. Section I supersedes the February 2, 2024 Attachment I. Section II describes covered PIH and Multifamily programs and the approved-MTW-waiver qualification. Section III announces household-composition interim revisions. Read the consolidated attachment and applicable implementation notices together; this announcement does not establish a single implementation date for every program.
89 FR 106340
Publisher: HUD
United States · Published 2024-12-31 · Last fetched 2026-09-06 · 4 linked current rules
CITATION DISCREPANCY, recorded 2026-08-28: this record's citation says 89 FR 106340, while the document its url actually serves begins at 89 FR 106998 -- 658 pages apart. The url is right; the page citation is not. Not corrected here because the correct pin needs confirming against the document's own face.
Portland Housing Bureau, HOU-3.04 Inclusionary Housing Program Adopted Administrative Rules, adopted December 31, 2024, 42 pp. (authorized by Portland City Code 30.01.120).
Publisher: Portland Housing Bureau (PHB)
Portland, OR · Published 2024-12-31 · Last fetched 2026-09-06 · 11 linked current rules
42 pages, 552,151 bytes, sha256 78188b27e0c3c7c96437ea3e4f90939d5e3857ff3a1e25490c24a177594e8be4, fetched 2026-08-29. The date comes off every page footer, which prints 'Adopted December 31, 2024'; the PDF's internal CreationDate is 2024-12-20 and the URL slug reads 12-31-24. authority_weight is 'regulation' rather than agency guidance because PCC 30.01.120 authorizes these Rules as the implementing rules of the Program and they are adopted, not advisory. Sections used for the Portland IH overlay: C (definitions of Compliance Period, Default, Default Daily Penalty, Default Notice Fee, Floating, IH Covenant, IH Covenant Release Penalty, MFI, Minimum IH Units, Restriction Period, RAC, Utility Allowance Schedule, WCMS, pp. 4-10); D.1 (the five IH Program options and the incentives attached to each -- 10-year property tax exemption under PCC 3.103.030, construction excise tax exemption under PCC 6.08.060(A)(2), SDC exemption under PCC 30.01.095, FAR bonuses, pp. 10-13); E.1 (Reasonable Equivalency: same Unit Type ratio, 85 percent minimum size, 35 percent per-floor cap excluding the top floor, Reconfiguration rules, pp. 19-20); F (Rent and Utility Allowance Schedule approval 90 days before COO, the RAC welcome letter, the architect's Reasonable Equivalency self-certification, pp. 21-22); G.1 (marketing, maximum rent and the non-optional fee deduction, the two utility allowance methods, initial certification on HUD Chapter 5 Sections 1-2 with EIV not required, annual recertification without third-party verification, incomes rising in place to 100/120 percent MFI, Floating, vacancies, WCMS annual reporting and the 30-day ACT response, the Notice of Non-Compliance and 90-day cure, inspections, property management changes, pp. 21-25); G.2 (homeownership eligibility, the $20,000 liquid asset ceiling, primary residence, Second Mortgage Documents, intent to sell, right of first refusal, the 99-year restricted assessment, pp. 25-31); G.3-G.4 (tenure and market-rate conversion with repayment of exemptions, covenant runs with the land, non-subordination, Assignment and Assumption Agreement, pp. 30-31); H (Default process and the 30-day cure, Code Hearings Officer enforcement under Title 22, settlement authority and liens, and the full penalty schedule including the IH Covenant Release Penalty formula, pp. 31-34).
42 U.S.C. 1485
Publisher: Office of the Law Revision Counsel, U.S. House of Representatives
United States · Published 2026-08-29 · Last fetched 2026-09-06 · 0 linked current rules
The statutory basis for Section 515 Rural Rental Housing. Provisions used this pass: subsection (a) direct loans to nonprofits, cooperatives and Indian tribes for rental or cooperative housing for elderly or handicapped persons or families of low or moderate income; (a)(2)/(b)(2) the up-to-30-year loan term; (a)(3) and (b)(4), which bar a cooperative from expelling a member 'by reason of his no longer meeting the income eligibility requirements established by the Secretary'; and (c)(1) equity loans conditioned on extending affordability 'for not less than 20 years'. 42 U.S.C. 1485 is one of the two statutes a Section 515 restrictive-use provision recites -- 7 CFR 3560.662(a) requires the owner to 'use the property (described herein) in compliance with 42 U.S.C. 1484 or 1485, whichever is applicable'. uscode.house.gov re-renders current text, so an amendment moves the content hash and the archiver catches it. STAGED UNCITED, DELIBERATELY. No rule authored this pass cites 42 U.S.C. 1485 directly - the Section 515 rules all rest on 7 CFR part 3560, which is the operative instrument for an operator. It is registered because the restrictive-use provision at 7 CFR 3560.662(a) recites it by name, so the existing rule rd.restrictive_use.prepayment and any future preservation work will need it, and because staging a statute an agent has actually fetched and hashed is cheaper than re-establishing it later. A source cited by nothing is a supported state in this corpus; it should not be read as an orphan to be pruned.
12 U.S.C. 1715l
Publisher: Office of the Law Revision Counsel, U.S. House of Representatives
United States · Published 2026-08-29 · Last fetched 2026-09-06 · 1 linked current rules
The authorising statute for Section 221(d)(3) Below-Market Interest Rate projects. The occupancy restriction is in the third proviso to subsec. (d)(3)(iii): the project 'shall be for use as a rental or cooperative project, and low and moderate income families or displaced families shall be eligible for occupancy in accordance with such regulations and procedures as may be prescribed by the Secretary'. Subsec. (f) adds that 'Low- and moderate-income persons who are less than 62 years of age shall be eligible for occupancy of dwelling units in a project financed with a mortgage insured under subsection (d)(3).' The below-market rate itself is the proviso to subsec. (d)(5). BMIR's occupancy terms are therefore delegated by statute to the Secretary, and the Secretary has stated them in Handbook 4350.3 rather than in current 24 CFR part 221 - which is why the handbook, not the CFR, is the operative authority for the BMIR income limit, the BMIR rent and the 110-percent surcharge.
Housing New Mexico | MFA, Annual Compliance Reporting, housingnm.org (accessed 2026-08-24)
Publisher: New Mexico Mortgage Finance Authority (Housing New Mexico | MFA)
New Mexico · Published date not recorded · Last fetched 2026-09-06 · 4 linked current rules
The operative deadlines page for the current cycle: January 31 (annual compliance fees for 542(c)/LIHTC/HOME with $1,500 late fee; notarized Annual Owner Certification) and March 31 (tenant compliance data via HDS NextGen, audited financial statement, operating budget, unit vacancy Excel report, current rent roll PDF). NOTE: lists audited financials as due March 31 while the Compliance Plan Sections 5.3/5.7 say within 120 days of fiscal year end -- unreconciled discrepancy recorded on nm.lihtc.audited_financials_and_budget_120days_fye_nextgen. A live web page, not a versioned document; content rolls forward each reporting cycle.
Housing New Mexico | MFA, Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Compliance Plan (August 2025)
Publisher: New Mexico Mortgage Finance Authority (Housing New Mexico | MFA)
New Mexico · Published 2025-08-01 · Last fetched 2026-09-06 · 16 linked current rules
Formerly the Owner's Compliance Manual. 846,476 bytes, sha256 4e4507f8a16bab1cfd6c83f5107b29ff2c7221931dbe75855a8ea80ad794d5e1. Reachable with plain curl and a browser User-Agent; no bot wall. Printed page footers run 4-53 through Section 6, then restart (Section 7 Monitoring Reviews prints as pp. 5-9, Section 8 Extended Use as pp. 9-16); rule locators pair the section number with the printed footer page. The source_id matches the id pre-registered in data/agencies for this document (key_documents), whose ingested flag can now be flipped.
24 CFR Part 574
Publisher: HUD
United States · Published 2025-04-02 · Last fetched 2026-09-06 · 25 linked current rules
'published' carries the LATEST AMENDMENT DATE that eCFR's own versions metadata records for part 574 (2025-04-02), not a publication date for the part as a whole and not anything inferred from the URL. The part was originally published at 57 FR 61740 (Dec. 28, 1992); the sections cited by this corpus carry their own source credits, the most recent of which are 88 FR 9665 (Feb. 14, 2023) and 88 FR 30498 (May 11, 2023) on 574.310 and 90 FR 11024 (Mar. 3, 2025) on 574.530. eCFR re-renders current text, so this source is NOT in the codified-law blind spot described in CLAUDE.md: an amendment moves the hash.
89 FR 38224
Publisher: HUD
United States · Published 2024-05-07 · Last fetched 2026-09-06 · 0 linked current rules
The rule that produced most of the current text of 24 CFR parts 982 and 983 - the amendment credits on 982.305, 982.401, 982.404, 982.405, 982.503, 982.505, 983.103, 983.301, 983.302, 983.257 and 983.261 all point at pages in this document. Corrected at 89 FR 46020 (28 May 2024, effective 6 June 2024) and technically amended at 90 FR 56683 (8 December 2025, effective 7 January 2026). It is the reason so many voucher rules in this corpus carry effective.from 2024-06-06 rather than an older date: the obligation may be older, but the text encoded here is this rule's.
88 FR 9600; 24 CFR Parts 5 and 891
Publisher: HUD
United States · Published 2023-02-14 · Last fetched 2026-09-06 · 10 linked current rules
URL CORRECTED 2026-08-28. The recorded url carried the right SLUG (.../housing-opportunity-through-modernization-act-of-2016-...) with the WRONG DOCUMENT NUMBER, 2023-03156. federalregister.gov resolves by document number and ignores the slug, so that url has always served 'Certain Steel Nails From the Republic of Korea: Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review', 88 FR 9863 -- verified by fetching it. A url that looks right and returns the wrong document is worse than a dead one, because nothing about it reads as broken. The HOTMA final rule is document 2023-01617, 88 FR 9600, published 2023-02-14, confirmed via the Federal Register API. Repointed at govinfo's stable PDF rather than the FR html page, which was intermittently erroring.
90 FR 61062
Publisher: HUD Office of Community Planning and Development
United States · Published 2025-12-30 · Last fetched 2026-09-06 · 3 linked current rules
The CURRENT CPD compliance date for the HOTMA final rule, and the successor to the document sources.json already holds as src.hud.hotma_extension_2024. Dates from the document's own face: 'Federal Register Volume 90, Number 246 (Tuesday, December 30, 2025) / Rules and Regulations / Pages 61062-61063'; DATES reads 'The compliance date for the final rule published February 14, 2023, at 88 FR 9600, as previously extended, is further extended until January 1, 2027.' Two things in it are load-bearing for this corpus: CPD grantees (HOME, HTF, HOPWA, CDBG, ESG, CoC) may set their own HOTMA compliance date as early as 1 January 2024 and no later than 1 January 2027, so the applicable regime is a PROPERTY-LEVEL fact and not a national date; and HUD separately permits CPD grantees to implement the 24 CFR 5.609(c)(3) safe harbor, and HOME PJs the expanded 24 CFR 92.203 safe harbors, ahead of implementing the rest of the final rule. Cited by home.income.safe_harbor_public_assistance_written_statement, htf.income.safe_harbor_mandatory_acceptance and htf.income.government_program_statement_subsequent_determinations_only.
34 U.S.C. 12491
Publisher: Office of the Law Revision Counsel, U.S. House of Representatives
United States · Published 2026-08-28 · Last fetched 2026-09-06 · 3 linked current rules
Subsection (a)(3) is the closed statutory list of 'covered housing programs' and is what settles, without inference, that VAWA reaches Section 202 (12 U.S.C. 1701q, including the direct loan program), Section 811 (42 U.S.C. 8013, which covers both the capital advance and the Project Rental Assistance sides), HOPWA (42 U.S.C. 12901 et seq.), the McKinney-Vento title IV programs including Continuum of Care (42 U.S.C. 11360 et seq.), HOME, Section 221(d)(3) BMIR, Section 236 (12 U.S.C. 1715z-1), public housing and Section 8, rural housing, LIHTC and the Housing Trust Fund. 24 CFR 5.2003 defines 'covered housing provider' but does not itself enumerate the programs, so the statute is the right citation for scope.
24 CFR Part 93
Publisher: HUD
United States · Published date not recorded · Last fetched 2026-09-06 · 23 linked current rules
HUD USER, Housing Trust Fund Income Limits
Publisher: HUD Office of Policy Development and Research
United States · Published date not recorded · Last fetched 2026-09-06 · 1 linked current rules
States the two methodologies HUD combines for the HTF income limit: the Section 8 formula under section 3(b)(2) of the U.S. Housing Act of 1937, and the federal poverty line as determined by HHS and published annually in the Federal Register. The extremely low-income HTF limit is the GREATER of the two, which is why it cannot be read off the Section 8 30-percent column.
HUD USER, Housing Trust Fund Rent Limits
Publisher: HUD Office of Policy Development and Research
United States · Published 2026-05-06 · Last fetched 2026-09-06 · 1 linked current rules
The page reproduces 24 CFR 93.302(b) and states the FY 2026 effective date (June 01, 2026). It also records that in years when the national HTF allocation is below $1 billion the published report shows only the extremely low-income rent limit and omits the very low-income limit, which means the ABSENCE of a VLI column for a year is itself information about what that year's funds could be used for.
Washington State Department of Commerce, Housing Trust Fund Program (HTF) programme page, page last updated May 29, 2026
Publisher: Washington State Department of Commerce
Washington · Published 2026-05-29 · Last fetched 2026-09-06 · 1 linked current rules
Establishes two things and is cited for one. (1) HOW THE CURRENT HANDBOOK EDITION WAS ESTABLISHED: this page's Resources block links 'Housing Trust Fund (HTF) Handbook (PDF) – updated May 28, 2026', which is the agency's own document library and the basis for treating the May 28, 2026 edition as current. (2) The programme's income framing: 'Properties financed by the program can house people earning less than 80% of the Area Median Income, but most of these properties house households with special needs or incomes below 30% of the Area Median Income.' Note that the page says AREA median where RCW 43.185A.010(6) says COUNTY median; the discrepancy is recorded as an open question on the income-eligibility rule rather than resolved. Also the source of the department's self-styled name used in the wa.commerce agency record.
City of Charlotte, Housing & Neighborhood Services, Housing Trust Fund.
Publisher: City of Charlotte, Housing & Neighborhood Services
Charlotte, NC · Published date not recorded · Last fetched 2026-09-06 · 1 linked current rules
312,842 bytes of HTML, sha256 06bb233787638bb7b2faa9d5da5adbfdafa7a452feca9a1b598c3a18c8a045fe, fetched 2026-08-30. Undated, and much of its content is visibly frozen at the fund's 2022 twentieth anniversary. Establishes what the Housing Trust Fund is: created by Charlotte City Council in 2001, first development financed in 2002, 'funded from voter-approved housing bonds and administered by Housing & Neighborhood Services' Housing Services division', with $304.3 million allocated as of December 2021 and 10,869 units plus 888 shelter beds created or preserved. Its band distribution is cited in this corpus as evidence of the range the fund actually reaches: 3,690 units at 30 percent AMI, 91 at 40 percent, 988 at 50 percent, 4,766 at 60 percent and 1,334 at 80 percent.
houstonhfc.com/about, About HHFC and HHFC Board of Directors
Publisher: Houston Housing Finance Corporation
Houston, TX · Published date not recorded · Last fetched 2026-09-06 · 1 linked current rules
Cited only for the corporation's constitution -- created 1979 by the City of Houston as a Texas non-profit 501(c)(3), twelve-member board appointed by the Mayor, four standing committees, monthly meetings, roughly 7,500 units in portfolio. authority_weight is secondary because it is a self-description on a marketing page, not an instrument. It is used in a rule that states what HHFC does NOT publish, so nothing substantive rests on it.
houstonhfc.com/application, 'Our Easy 4-Step Process', Step 3: Include Application Fees
Publisher: Houston Housing Finance Corporation
Houston, TX · Published date not recorded · Last fetched 2026-09-06 · 1 linked current rules
CITED BECAUSE IT DISAGREES WITH THE RULES IT LINKS TO, and the corpus records both figures rather than choosing. The page's Step 3 lists three cheques -- '(1) $4,500 Houston Housing Finance Corporation', '(2) $5,000 Texas Bond Review Board', '(3) $5,000 Bracewell LLP'. Article IV.A of the Rules provides for the $4,500 and the $5,000 to Bracewell but not for a Texas Bond Review Board cheque at application stage; Article III.G puts the Bond Review Board money later, as two cheques for the one-third and two-thirds balances of the chapter 1372 closing fee, due no later than the 30th day after the reservation date. The page also OMITS the $5,500 deposit that Article IV.A requires within 30 days of a volume cap reservation, so an applicant budgeting from the page alone will be short. The page is undated and the Rules are dated, which is why the Rules carry the higher authority_weight.
HHFC Multifamily Rules, effective September 21, 2023, with Exhibits A-G including Exhibit F, the City of Houston Concentration Policy for Affordable Multi-Family Housing
Publisher: Houston Housing Finance Corporation
Houston, TX · Published 2023-09-21 · Last fetched 2026-09-06 · 10 linked current rules
THE ONLY STANDING PUBLISHED AFFORDABILITY INSTRUMENT IN THE CITY OF HOUSTON FOR EITHER TAX-EXEMPTION STRUCTURE, and it is a BOND instrument rather than a tax-exemption one. It governs volume cap transactions -- new construction, acquisition and rehabilitation, and refundings -- and expressly does not apply to home mortgage bonds. Articles read in full this pass: I (purpose, waiver, amendment), II (general requirements A through V), III (filing and procedural requirements A through K), IV (fees and costs), V (miscellaneous), Attachment A (private placement), and Exhibits E, F and G. Exhibits A (Application for Financing), B (Residential Development Financing Questionnaire), C (Indemnity Agreement) and D (form of Abatement Notice) are present in the artifact and were NOT read line by line. TWO CAUTIONS ON WEIGHT. First, authority_weight is binding_agency_guidance rather than regulation because the instrument disclaims its own fixity: Article I.C permits waiver of any specific provision by majority board vote for good cause, Article I.D permits amendment, revision, repeal or alteration 'at any time and from time to time and with or without notice', Article II reserves the right to impose additional requirements on any development, and Article II.U provides that a conflicting memorandum of understanding controls. Second, EXHIBIT F IS A CITY INSTRUMENT, NOT A CORPORATION ONE. The Concentration Policy for Affordable Multi-Family Housing is attributed to the City of Houston and by its own terms gates five actions by HCD, the Houston Housing Authority, Victory Street Public Facility Corporation and HHFC. It carries no date, no ordinance or resolution number, and no standalone copy was found on houstontx.gov, so it is cited here as an exhibit and its own currency is unestablished.
Howard County, Md., Code tit. 13, subtit. 4 (county PDF printing, pre-2016 text)
Publisher: Howard County Department of Housing and Community Development
Howard County, MD · Published date not recorded · Last fetched 2026-09-06 · 0 linked current rules
RECORDED SO THAT THE NEXT READER DOES NOT AUTHOR FROM IT. It is linked from the county's own MIHU programme page under the label 'MIHU County Code' and is the first thing a search finds. Six sections differ from the codified text: 13.400 (whole applicability test replaced by C.B. 55, 2016), 13.401 (Disability income, DIHU, Low income and Low income housing unit added and every definition renumbered by C.B. 18, 2025), 13.403 (DIHU rental rate added at (b)(2) by C.B. 50, 2019), 13.405 (fines and penalties added at (b)(3)), 13.406 (qualification limbs (3) and (4) added) and 13.408 (foreclosure notice lengthened from ten days to twenty). Nothing in this corpus cites it, deliberately.
Howard County, Md., Code tit. 13, subtit. 4, ss. 13.400 to 13.410
Publisher: Howard County Council (served by Municipal Code Corporation)
Howard County, MD · Published date not recorded · Last fetched 2026-09-06 · 14 linked current rules
The operative statute for the whole programme. Load-bearing provisions for a rental operator: 13.403(b)(1) sets the maximum rate at 30 percent of the monthly income of a household at 60 percent of median, by bedroom size; 13.403(b)(3) makes that rate INCLUSIVE of a utility allowance the Department calculates from prevailing local costs; 13.405(a) makes the rental restrictions run IN PERPETUITY from the date of initial offering; 13.405(b)(2) says the owner need NOT permanently designate particular units, which makes Howard a floating-designation regime; 13.405(c) is the 60-day priority period; 13.405(d)(2) is a next-available-unit rule; 13.405(e) is the monthly-then-annual report; 13.406(b) is the 60 percent rental / 80 percent ownership income test; and 13.408 terminates the restrictions on a foreclosure sale with excess proceeds to the County. 13.401(n) defines median income by reference to the U.S. CENSUS BUREAU, not HUD, which is unusual and consequential.
Howard County DHCD, MIHU Program Regulations, revised April 8, 2021
Publisher: Howard County Department of Housing and Community Development
Howard County, MD · Published 2021-04-08 · Last fetched 2026-09-06 · 8 linked current rules
These are the real regulations, and section 5 is the only published statement of how the RENTAL programme actually operates: the Department sets income limits annually and rental amounts semi-annually, applicants apply directly to each apartment community which verifies income and credit, leases must run a full year with no month-to-month renewals, every household member on the lease must be on the MIHU application, co-signers are prohibited, and income and family status must be reverified annually. Section 5.B commits the Department to an ANNUAL FILE AUDIT AND PHYSICAL UNIT INSPECTION of every rental community with an MIHU requirement. Section 6.B sets the rental-side penalty: a leasing agent that overcharges must repay the difference. THE DOCUMENT'S OWN PURPOSE CLAUSE IS NARROWER THAN ITS CONTENTS -- it says the rules prescribe procedures 'for determining a designee, criteria for the allocation of units and selecting eligible purchasers', which does not mention rental at all, yet section 5 governs rental.
Howard County DHCD, MIHU maximum permitted income, effective January 1, 2026
Publisher: Howard County Department of Housing and Community Development
Howard County, MD · Published 2026-01-01 · Last fetched 2026-09-06 · 2 linked current rules
The rental limits effective 1 January 2026, by household size: 1 $61,732; 2 $70,551; 3 $79,370; 4 $88,189; 5 $95,244; 6 $102,299; 7 $109,355; 8+ $116,410. The homeownership limits for the same date: 1 $82,310; 2 $94,068; 3 $105,827; 4 $117,586; 5 $126,992; 6 $136,399; 7 $145,806; 8+ $155,213. NO MAXIMUM RENT TABLE IS PUBLISHED ON EITHER PAGE, which is the single largest documentary gap in the Howard County overlay: Code 13.403(b)(1) requires the Department to establish maximum rates by bedroom size and the county publishes only incomes.