HUD issued a proposed rule that would allow public housing authorities and private landlords to implement work requirements and/or time limits as conditions for receiving HCV, PBV, or PBRA assistance or continued occupancy in public housing.
- HUD makes adoption of these measures fully optional.
- Work Requirements: may be up to 40 hours per week.
- HUD establishes a new definition of “work-eligible” as residents ages 18 to 61 who are not disabled, pregnant, primary caretakers of young children (under 6) or “temporarily incapacitated individuals”, college students or in other exempted categories.
- Time Limits: no less than two years for non-elderly, non-disabled families, as defined in 24 CFR 5.403.
What’s Next: Comments on the proposed rule are due on May 1.
Go Deeper: Housing Solutions Lab released a brief in September 2025 (around the time ProPublica leaked a version of this proposed rule) that explores work requirements and time limits in the context of housing assistance.
Along with the release of the proposed rule, Secretary Turner also launched the Work and Dignity Coalition, bringing together PHAs, private landlords, tribes, states, non-profit partners, and faith-based organizations who support the principles behind HUD’s proposed efforts to strengthen work, opportunity, and self-sufficiency.
