Top 10 Largest US Public Housing Agencies by Section 8 Voucher Units
PlainVoucher ranks Public Housing Agencies (PHAs) by total administered Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher units, rendered live from the phas table.
Research
Original data research from the PlainVoucher editorial team. Every page is rendered server-side from a live SELECT against the portal database; no numbers are hardcoded.
What does the research show?
Top 10 US States by Total Section 8 Voucher Allocation
PlainVoucher ranks US states by total administered Section 8 voucher units across all in-state PHAs, rendered server-side from the phas table aggregated by state.
Top 10 US Metros by Highest Section 8 Payment Standards
PlainVoucher ranks metro Fair Market Rent areas by the HUD-published 2-bedroom payment standard, rendered server-side from the payment_standards table.
Where Section 8 Vouchers Fall Shortest of Market Rent
A cross-database ranking of the metros where the advertised 2-bedroom market median runs furthest above HUD's payment standard, joining HUD Fair Market Rent with PlainRent advertised medians.
US States Ranked by Number of Public Housing Authorities
How the nation's Public Housing Authorities are distributed across the states, and why a state's count of authorities shapes how many waitlists a renter can join.