News | The HUD Section 8 Student Assistance Rule Removed!
Feb 03, 2026
Change in affordable housing student rules is here!
There is impactful compliance news to share from the new THUD appropriation bill that was passed and signed into law today. Congress has eliminated the HUD Section 8-specific student financial assistance rule. According to HOTMA regulatory history and HUD Notice 2023-10, this language in past appropriations was the reason we had two student financial assistance rules (one for Section 8 recipients and the HOTMA-based one for everyone else). Now we have one method to count student financial assistance - the new method introduced in HOTMA.
Our online on-demand HOTMA course has been revised and will also be up to date tomorrow. You can read more about that course HERE.
The bill can be read HERE. The language now missing had appeared where page 241 is in the linked copy.
There is a very good chance that the topic of this post is covered in an online on-demand course at Costello University.
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