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The Justice Department and ten states filed a proposed judgment with landlord Pinnacle in the RealPage case, which alleges about 3 million units run on RealPage pricing products
The Justice Department and ten states filed a proposed final judgment with Pinnacle Property Management Services in the RealPage antitrust case, and the Federal Register...
Single-room-occupancy rent ceilings are set at 75% of an efficiency rent
Federal rent ceilings for single-room-occupancy units are set for fiscal year 2027 at 75% of the efficiency rent, which is the zero-bedroom Fair Market Rent...
HUD grantees must now leave VA service-connected disability pay out of income tests
A veteran’s VA service-connected disability compensation can no longer be counted when a HUD grantee decides whether a household is low- or moderate-income. The change...
New rent ceilings for housing vouchers took effect Oct. 1, with a $1,014 non-metro benchmark
The Department of Housing and Urban Development’s fiscal year 2027 Fair Market Rents took effect on October 1, 2026, resetting the rent benchmarks that housing...
Rent now runs 34% higher than before the pandemic, and about half of renters are cost-burdened, Fed Governor Barr says
Renters have absorbed a 34% jump in the consumer price index for rent since December 2019, and about half of all renters are cost burdened,...
Median U.S. rent slipped to $1,388 in September, the first monthly drop since January
Apartment List’s September 2026 national rent report puts the median U.S. rent at $1,388 a month, down 0.1% from August and the first monthly drop...
More than 200 renters were denied housing through a Brooklyn tenant-blacklist scheme
A Brooklyn real estate firm turned away 203 rental applicants between 2019 and 2025 based on their housing court histories, a practice New York outlawed...
New York says a Brooklyn landlord must return $150,000 in withheld renter deposits
A Brooklyn real estate firm must return $150,000 in “good faith” deposits it kept from apartment applicants, New York Attorney General Letitia James announced on...
Nearly 18 percent of housing-voucher areas see their rent ceiling fall October 1
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development on September 1 released the fiscal year 2027 Fair Market Rents that set the payment ceiling for...
New federal rent ceilings take effect the same day the public comment window on them closes
The Department of Housing and Urban Development’s fiscal year 2027 Fair Market Rents become effective October 1, 2026, the identical date HUD’s own notice sets...
Rents are climbing again as steep mortgage rates keep would-be buyers renting
The typical U.S. rent climbed to $1,962 a month in July, up 2.3% from a year earlier, as mortgage rates near a one-year high keep...
New federal rent ceilings take effect October 1, and they fall for more than a third of the country
New federal rent ceilings for the Housing Choice Voucher program take effect October 1, and the two-bedroom limit is falling in more than a third...
HUD now builds part of each area’s rent ceiling from a national water, sewer and trash figure
Part of the math behind every area’s fair market rent for fiscal year 2027 now runs through a single national number instead of a local...
A new rule keeps any area’s Section 8 rent ceiling from dropping more than 10 percent for 2027
When HUD calculates a new fair market rent for a metro area or county, a falling local rental market can normally translate into a lower...
HUD gives renters and landlords until October 1 to challenge the new voucher rent ceilings
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development published its fiscal year 2027 fair market rents on September 1, setting a hard deadline for anyone...
New fair-market rents take effect October 1, resetting how far a housing voucher stretches
HUD published new Fair Market Rents for fiscal year 2027 on September 1, 2026, and the figures take effect October 1 unless a local housing...
New fair-market rents take effect October 1, resetting how much a voucher covers
HUD’s new fair market rents for fiscal year 2027 take effect October 1, 2026, resetting the rent figures used to determine how much a Housing...
HUD rebuilt the utility half of its 2027 voucher rents after a price index disappeared
The formula that will set 2027 Housing Choice Voucher rent ceilings is locked in, even though local dollar figures can still shift. HUD published the...
New federal rents take effect October 1, resetting the limits on Section 8 housing vouchers
New Fair Market Rents from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development take effect October 1, 2026, resetting the payment standards that cap how...
Renters can claim part of a $359 million RealPage rent-software settlement before January 29
A federal court in Nashville has cleared the way for renters nationwide to collect a share of $359,925,000 in cash from RealPage, Inc. and roughly...