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Project-Based Rental Assistance

The project-based rental assistance program provides funding to landlords who rent a specified number of affordable apartments to low-income families or individuals. Assistance is tied directly to the properties so tenants can generally not move without losing their assistance.

Rating

What This Rating Means

NOT PERFORMING
Ineffective

Programs receiving this rating are not using your tax dollars effectively. Ineffective programs have been unable to achieve results due to a lack of clarity regarding the program's purpose or goals, poor management, or some other significant weakness.
  • The program has poor financial controls. There is little incentive to control costs as these are passed onto the federal government and many properties are subsidized above the market rents in the metropolitan area where they are located.
  • Assisted households lack the ability to move to better housing. Although the physical quality of project-based housing has improved significantly in recent years, those households in substandard properties are often trapped without the option of moving. Similar programs such as Housing Choice Vouchers don't have this problem.
  • There is confusion over the objectives of the program and incomplete performance targets. For example, while HUD has committed to increasing the self-sufficiency of assisted households, it has not set specific performance targets for the project-based program.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Stepping up enforcement action against substandard properties, including conversion of assistance to vouchers.
  • Developing strategies and measures for improving the economic well-being of residents.

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