If no such buyer is found, tenants are protected with rental assistance for up to 3 years. A number of agencies provided incomplete data for properties placed in service in 1998. They reported that at the time of data collection, they did not yet have a final count of projects placed in service. These data will be collected during future rounds of data collection. Data do not include public housing projects.
Data refer to vacant and occupied rental apartments in buildings with two or more units.
The combination of new construction and rehabilitation is possible in multibuilding properties in which one building was rehabilitated and one building was newly constructed. The Rural Housing Service formerly was called the Farmers Home Administration. RHS Section 515 funding information provided by the Housing Assistance Council on March 9, 2000.