NAHMA HUD Update: HUD Publishes FY 2021 Section 8 Annual Adjustment Factors for Housing Assistance Payment Program

December 17, 2020

Dear NAHMA Members,

Today, HUD’s Office of the Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and Research published the Annual Adjust Factors for Section 8 Housing Assistance Payments Program for Fiscal Year 2021, for the adjustment of contract rents on the anniversary of those assistance contracts. The factors are based on a formula using residential rent and utility cost changes from the most recent annual Bureau of Labor Statistics. Please note that tables showing annual adjustment factors will be available electronically from the HUD data information page.

The FY 2021 Section 8 Housing Assistance Payment Program Annual Adjustment Factors are attached and also available here.