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.
Research
Original data research from the PlainVoucher editorial team. Every figure updates automatically as our source data refreshes; no numbers are hand-typed.
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, aggregated live 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, computed live from our source data.
How Section 8 Payment Standards Compare to Median 2-BR Market Rent
A ranking of the metros where the 2-bedroom median gross rent comes closest to (or exceeds) HUD's payment standard, joining HUD Fair Market Rent with Census ACS median gross rent.
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.