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Connecticut’s heating aid opened September 1 and sets each amount by household size, income and fuel type
Connecticut households can apply now for winter heating help through the 2026-2027 Connecticut Energy Assistance Program, known as CEAP. The state Department of Social Services...
A one-person Ohio household can earn up to $2,295 in 30 days and still get winter crisis heating help
A one-person Ohio household can have up to $2,295.62 in income over 30 days, or $27,930 over the past 12 months, and still be under...
Ohio’s winter crisis program pays up to $1,200 for bulk fuel from November 2
Ohio households that heat with kerosene, propane or fuel oil can get up to $1,200 toward a bulk fuel delivery once the state’s Winter Crisis...
Ohio’s reconnect help can be used once a heating season, runs to April 16 and sets no income limit
Ohio customers of state-regulated electric and natural gas utilities can get service restored or kept on for no more than $175 plus a reconnection charge...
Minnesota pays $200 to $1,400 toward heating bills, with applications open to May 31
Minnesota’s heating-aid plan for the 2026-2027 winter sets primary heat benefits between $200 and $1,400 per household, and the state says applications are due by...
Maine bars electric companies from disconnecting homes from November 15 to April 15 without state permission, and a violation costs up to $2,500 paid to the customer
Maine’s winter shutoff protection for electric customers begins November 15, 2026, and runs to April 15, 2027. Under state law, a utility cannot cut off...
Federal rent ceilings for housing vouchers took effect October 1, except in 13 areas that kept last year’s
HUD’s new fair market rents for housing vouchers took effect October 1, but not everywhere. Thirteen areas, including Milwaukee, Madison, San Jose and Santa Ana-Anaheim-Irvine,...
Florida tenants of Concord Management from 2021 to 2025 may receive automatic checks from a $1.85 million settlement, with a final hearing set for December 3
Former residents of Florida apartments managed by Concord Management between April 3, 2021 and April 3, 2025 may receive settlement checks without filing anything. A...
HUD says FHA multifamily mortgage insurance now covers build-to-rent communities of single-family homes, duplexes and triplexes
HUD announced on October 14 that FHA multifamily mortgage insurance now covers build-to-rent communities made up of single-family homes, duplexes and triplexes. The change took...
Typical apartment asking rent reached $1,762 in September, Zillow says
Apartments in multifamily buildings carried a typical U.S. asking rent of $1,762 in September, according to Zillow. That figure was unchanged from August and 2.2%...
Typical single-family asking rent hit $2,266 in September, $771 a month less than a new buyer’s typical $3,037 payment, Zillow says
Zillow says the typical asking rent for a single-family house in the United States was $2,266 in September. That is $771 a month less than...
Apartments.com says the national average apartment rent slipped to $1,752 in September
The national average apartment rent slipped to $1,752 in September, down 0.08 percent from August, according to the monthly rent report from Apartments.com, the rental...
HUD changed how it inflates the utility share of next year’s voucher rents
The Department of Housing and Urban Development has changed how it grows the utility part of next year’s fair market rents, the figures that anchor...
HUD inspectors now score heating, lighting, GFCI outlets and guardrails in public housing and multifamily buildings
Starting October 1, 2026, a missing kitchen light, an unprotected outlet near a sink or a broken stair railing at a HUD-assisted property no longer...
Census publishes third-quarter rent and vacancy figures on October 28
The Census Bureau counted 7.3% of the nation’s rental homes as vacant in the second quarter, and the next reading is due at 10 a.m....
Florida renters who paid eviction attorney fees before a court awarded them would get three-quarters back automatically if they owe Progress Residential less than they paid, with opt-outs due November 20
A proposed settlement would return 75 percent of the eviction attorney fees that a Progress Residential affiliate charged Florida renters before any court awarded them,...
Median asking rent for studios to two-bedrooms in the 50 largest metros was $1,699 in August, Realtor.com says
Realtor.com reports that the median asking rent for studios, one-bedrooms and two-bedrooms in the 50 largest U.S. metros was $1,699 in August, down 0.9 percent...
Zillow puts the typical U.S. rent at $1,932 in September
Zillow’s September report puts the typical U.S. rent at $1,932, up 2.7 percent from a year earlier and the biggest annual gain since April 2025....
HUD’s fair market rents took effect October 1, and housing agencies that requested a reevaluation have until January 8 to submit survey data to get a local figure reconsidered
The fiscal year 2027 fair market rents that HUD uses to set payment standards in the Housing Choice Voucher program took effect October 1, 2026,...
Forty landlords, and not RealPage itself, agreed to the $359,925,000 fund renters can claim from until January 29, 2027
Forty landlords and property managers, including Greystar Management Services, Equity Residential and Camden Property Trust, appear on the settlement administrator’s list of defendants behind a...