HOTMA — Housing Opportunity Through Modernization Act

Fair Market Rents for the Housing Choice Voucher Program, Moderate Rehabilitation Single Room Occupancy Program, and Other Programs, Fiscal Year 2027

This HUD notice announces the Fiscal Year 2027 Fair Market Rents (FMRs) used to set payment standards under the Housing Choice Voucher program and other HUD programs, effective October 1, 2026. It explains the methodology changes for FY 2027, including a new utility inflation factor calculation, and describes procedures for PHAs and the public to submit comments or request reevaluation of specific area FMRs by the comment deadline. PHAs should note that FMRs also affect their annual HCV Renewal Funding Inflation Factors, so reevaluation requests may have funding implications.

Revision of Operations Notice for the Expansion of the Moving to Work Demonstration Program

This notice revises HUD's Operations Notice for the Expansion of the Moving to Work (MTW) Demonstration Program, which was last published August 28, 2020 with technical revisions in March 2025. The revisions cover funding flexibility, program administration, special purpose vouchers, and multiple MTW waivers in Appendix I and II, including changes to stepped rent, imputed income, work requirements, and local non-traditional activity limits. HUD is soliciting public comments on these revisions, with a 60-day comment period followed by an additional 30-day period.

30-Day Notice of Proposed Information Collection: Public Housing Reform; Change in Admission and Occupancy Requirements

HUD is requesting OMB approval to revise an existing information collection requiring public housing agencies (PHAs) to maintain and make available written admission and occupancy policies, including eligibility, preferences, and rent determination rules. This revision updates burden estimates to reflect the current number of active PHAs (2,667, down from 2,774). The public has 30 days to comment on the proposed collection before it is finalized by OMB.

Implementation of National Standards for the Physical Inspection of Real Estate Administrative Procedures for Voucher Programs

This notice extends the deadline for PHAs administering Housing Choice Voucher, Project-Based Voucher, and Section 8 Moderate Rehabilitation programs to implement NSPIRE inspection standards to February 1, 2027. It clarifies which NSPIRE provisions are excluded from the extension, updates HUD notification requirements, provides guidance on variation and alternative inspection method requests, and informs PHAs that HUD is no longer developing a software application for voucher program inspections. PHAs must continue complying with carbon monoxide and smoke alarm requirements regardless of which inspection standard they use.

30-Day Notice of Proposed Information Collection: Housing Opportunity Through Modernization Act of 2016 (HOTMA): Public Housing Waiting List Data Collection Tool

Public Housing Agency Compliance Deadline for Sections 102 and 104 of the Housing Opportunity Through Modernization Act (HOTMA) and Alternative HUD-50058 Reporting Instructions

This notice sets January 1, 2027 as the deadline for most public housing agencies to fully comply with sections 102 and 104 of HOTMA, except MTW PHAs and PHAs exclusively using FRS software, who will receive future guidance. PHAs can comply either by using the updated 2024 Form HUD-50058 or, if unable to convert in time, by using the 2020 Form HUD-50058 with alternative reporting instructions detailed in Appendix B. It partially supersedes Notice PIH 2024-38 but does not change the earlier July 1, 2025 deadline for select HOTMA provisions.