rent subsidy

Tenant payment help

A rent subsidy is financial assistance that helps cover housing costs, typically provided by government programs to low-income tenants.

The subsidy may go directly to landlords or to renters as vouchers: They qualified for a rent subsidy through the housing authority.

Also called rental assistance or housing subsidy.

Opposites
financial direction

rent subsidyrent increase

Higher tenant payment

rent hike · late fee · security deposit · move-in costs

housing assistance type

rent subsidymortgage

Secured home loan

mortgage loan · down payment · home equity · property ownership

market intervention

rent subsidyrent gouging

Excessive housing cost increases

predatory lending

Family

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