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.

If you rent to Housing Choice Voucher (HCV, better known as Section 8) holders through Home Forward, you've probably already seen the letter dated December 3, 2025, announcing a full pause on approving any rent increases effective on or after April 1, 2026, through March 31, 2027. Yeah, that's a full year with no bumps allowed, even on lease renewals.

Section 8, also known as the Housing Choice Voucher Program, is a federal initiative designed to assist low-income families, the elderly,...