A housing voucher is capped 6.7% below the middle of the rental market in the median state (2027)
In Vermont, the middle of 50 states, a voucher covers a two-bedroom up to $1,558 a month while the middle of the market runs $1,662, a gap of $104. Civic Forecast calculation from HUD Fair Market Rents and 50th Percentile Rent Estimates (FY2027), joined by state. An area may apply to use the 50th percentile as its voucher standard. Neither half is population-weighted.
Induced by API Automations for Civic Forecast from federal open data. Each finding names the datasets it was computed from. How this is calculated.