Section 18 demolition and disposition: eligibility, HUD notices, and tenant protection vouchers.
Relocation
Ask a housing authority director what worries them most about a repositioning transaction and the answer is rarely the capital stack. It's the residents. That instinct is correct, and not only for the reasons people expect. Relocation is where deals lose money they didn't budget, lose
Repositioning
Most housing authorities approach this as a fork in the road: convert under RAD, or dispose under Section 18. Pick one. That framing is usually wrong. For substantial rehabilitation, the answer is almost always both — a blend, in some ratio determined by your construction scope. The real questions are what
Section 18
HUD's Office of Public and Indian Housing issued Notice PIH 2026-23 on August 28, 2026. It amends PIH 2024-40, the notice that has governed public housing demolition and disposition applications since December 2024. It contains several changes that will materially affect which properties can be repositioned