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The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced a 12% increase in Fair Market Rents across the U.S., in addition to making $113 million available in Housing Choice Vouchers to public housing agencies to help families meet rising housing costs.

While racial disparities in homeownership are at their highest level in 50 years, closing the Black-white homeownership gap in the U.S. will take adding nearly five million African American homeowners, according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has published the Final Rule for the National Standards for the Physical Inspection of Real Estate in the Federal Register, which will be effective July 1 and October 1 for all rental assistance programs.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced an available $30.3 billion for the Housing Choice Voucher Program that will help Public Housing Authorities address recent rent inflation and enable more low-income families to utilize housing vouchers.

HUD has announced a grant that will help provide permanent affordable housing to non-elderly persons with disabilities, helping them live independently as self-sufficient members of their communities.