[author: John Wheatley]

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (“HUD”) released the Fiscal Year 2017 Housing Trust Fund (HTF) allocation amounts on June 20, 2017, setting forth the amounts awarded to each state or territory under the HTF.  The total HTF allocation for Fiscal Year 2017 is $219,168,373.94, including $12,702,747.00 in unallocated funds from Fiscal Year 2016. The formula HUD uses to allocate funds is enumerated at 24 CFR Part 93; and based foremost on the ratio of the shortage of standard rental units both affordable and available to extremely low-income renter households in the state or territory to the aggregate shortage of standard rental units both affordable and available to extremely low-income renter households in the United States, with each recipient granted a minimum annual award of $3,000,000.00.

Specific allocation amounts are can be found at FR Doc. 2017–13180 (https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2017-06-23/pdf/2017-13180.pdf).