The Department of Housing and Urban Development is asking for public comment on reinstating an expired collection of family reports used to monitor assisted housing programs. Its November 5 notice describes two changes to wording on the forms; comments are due January 4, 2027.
What the reports cover
HUD says public housing agencies are the respondents. The family report forms seek demographic, family profile, income and housing information about tenants in assisted housing. HUD says it uses the information to monitor programs and the agencies that administer them.
The notice identifies Public Housing, Housing Choice Vouchers and other Section 8 programs among the programs monitored through the forms. It also describes forms for agencies participating in the Moving to Work demonstration and its expansion. This is a request about information collection, not an announcement that benefits or eligibility have changed.
Proposed changes
The notice calls the request a reinstatement with change. HUD says it is updating an interim reexamination reason field to also refer to mid-cycle changes, to account for non-interim reexamination types. It is also changing an inspection question to ask whether a public housing agency used inspection flexibilities, including an alternative inspection or entering into a housing assistance payment contract with non-life-threatening deficiencies.
HUD's table estimates 2,004,687 responses and 1,088,481 annual burden hours across the listed activities. These are agency estimates about the collection, not a count of affected households.
How to comment
The notice invites written comments on whether the collection is necessary, the accuracy of HUD's burden estimate, how to improve the information, and ways to reduce the burden. It directs interested people to regulations.gov and also provides a mailing address for HUD. The notice identifies the collection as OMB control number 2577-0083. Supporting documents may be requested from the contact named in the notice.