The Boston Housing Authority last week asked landlords who rent to Section 8 voucher holders, some of the city’s poorest residents, to avoid raising their rents this year as federal funding for housing assistance programs begins to dry up.

Millions could lose rental aid as Section 8 faces $26.7B in cuts. Learn how proposed changes could affect current and future recipients.

In a letter sent out last week to roughly 6,000 landlords and property managers who are already part of the Section 8 program managed by the Boston Housing Authority (BHA), city officials warned that “potential federal underfunding” would result in a “significant voucher budget shortfall by the end of the calendar year.

President Donald Trump’s proposal to slash the federal budget includes unprecedented cuts to the nation’s largest rental aid program, a move Bay Area housing advocates and officials warn could push thousands of the region’s poorest residents to the brink of homelessness.

The budget proposal prioritizes state-based grants over federal aid, and would include a two-year cap on rental assistance for adults without disabilities.

Advocates and elected officials rallied in front of Albany City Hall to denounce the federal government's proposed cuts to H.U.D. funding. And they took the time to credit the state for funding a new housing program that will get homeless people off the streets.

Tulsa Housing Authority officials fear a 2025 budget shortfall and President Trump's proposed 2026 budget will increase homelessness while exhausting local social service providers who are already working at capacity.

Section 8 cuts threaten to destabilize the multifamily market, writes the former chief of staff to HUD Secretary Marcia L. Fudge.

The Trump administration's suggested cuts to housing aid would be devastating for older residents and others who would be homeless without such assistance.

President Donald Trump’s proposal to slash the federal budget includes unprecedented cuts to the nation’s largest rental aid program, a move Bay Area housing advocates and officials warn could push thousands of the region’s poorest residents to the brink of homelessness.

Any cut to these, you know, critical housing programs would be devastating for a lot of families, not just here in Tulsa, but throughout the state." "For the Section 8 voucher program, we are at ...