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The Puerto Rico Department of Housing is the department responsible for
homeownership Owner-occupancy or home-ownership is a form of housing tenure in which a person, called the owner-occupier, owner-occupant, or home owner, owns the home in which they live. The home can be a house, such as a single-family house, an apartment, con ...
,
affordable housing Affordable housing is housing which is deemed affordable to those with a household income at or below the median as rated by the national government or a local government by a recognized housing affordability index. Most of the literature on affo ...
, and community assistance programs in
Puerto Rico Puerto Rico (; abbreviated PR; tnq, Boriken, ''Borinquen''), officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico ( es, link=yes, Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, lit=Free Associated State of Puerto Rico), is a Caribbean island and Unincorporated ...
. It was created in 1972.


Programs

The agency is tasked with managing HUD funds including for housing under
Section 8 (housing) Section 8 of the Housing Act of 1937 (), often called Section 8, as repeatedly amended, authorizes the payment of rental housing assistance to private landlords on behalf of low-income households in the United States. Fort Lauderdale, Florida Hou ...
. The agency also administers Community Development Block Grants (CDBG-DR) used for building housing for those affected by natural disasters.


Secretary

In 2021, governor
Pedro Pierluisi Pedro Rafael Pierluisi Urrutia (born April 26, 1959) is a Puerto Rican politician and lawyer currently serving as governor of Puerto Rico. He has previously served as Secretary of Justice, Resident Commissioner, acting Secretary of State, i ...
designated William Rodríguez Rodríguez as the new secretary of the department.


See also

Public housing in Puerto Rico Public housing in Puerto Rico is a subsidized system of housing units, mostly consisting of housing projects (, , or ), which are provided for low-income families in Puerto Rico. The system is mainly financed with programs from the US Department o ...


References

Executive departments of the government of Puerto Rico {{PuertoRico-stub