Manufactured home space rental with Housing Choice Voucher

The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has issued guidance about using Housing Choice Vouchers for manufactured home space rent.  A Housing Choice Voucher now covers monthly payments to amortize the cost of purchasing a manufactured home in addition to space rent, utilities and owner maintenance and management charges for the space.  Monthly payments toward purchasing of the manufactured home include principal, interest, property taxes and insurance, and debt service costs.  Any increase in debt service costs from refinancing while living in the manufactured home are excluded.

If the HAP amount exceed the the rent to the space owner, the housing authority can either pay the remaining balance to the family or pay the remaining balance to either the lender or the utility supplier or both if they are willing to accept HAP payments.

The family is obligated to promptly report any changes in the loan payment amount.

The housing authority must recalculate the manufactured home space rent HAP at the first regular reexamination after April 18, 2017.  (PIH Notice 2017-18, September 7, 2017.)