HUD's FY2027 Fair Market Rent took effect October 1. The Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro two-bedroom benchmark fell $44, to $1,878. That chart is not your new rent, and it is not the check. Here is what to ask the housing authority before you touch a voucher unit.

HUD's Emergency Housing Voucher conversion 2026 does not end the rent help on December 31 for a family under contract on September 30. Notice PIH 2026-25 turns that voucher into an EHV-TPV. Home Forward's February page still tells the old sunset story. Here is what to ask, and what not to serve.

Home Forward still has the owner rent pause on the clock — and on September 2 it telegraphed a tenant-share hike no earlier than February 1, 2027. Those are two different piles of money. This piece is the calendar for private voucher landlords: what HAP does, what TTP does, why a Portland “catch-up” fee can still trigger relocation, and why dumping the voucher is a source-of-income problem.