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About RentEasy Guide
A free, no-login directory of HUD affordable-housing data — built for the small towns and rural counties most housing sites ignore.
Who we are
RentEasy Guide is an independent, free directory of U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) data, organized by city and town. We are not affiliated with HUD, with any state housing authority, or with any landlord or property-management company. We don't process applications, we don't take fees from renters, and we don't sell anyone's contact information. Everything on the site is published in the open, indexed by search engines, and free to read without an account.
What problem we're trying to solve
If you live in a major U.S. metro area, you have your pick of websites that explain how Section 8 works and how to apply. If you live in a town of 4,000 people in central Iowa, central Kentucky, or eastern Oregon, your options drop off a cliff. The local housing authority might not have a website. The county-level Fair Market Rent might be buried in a 600-row HUD spreadsheet. The income limits might be labeled by metropolitan statistical area names that don't match anything on a map.
We built RentEasy Guide to give those communities a clean, readable starting point. Each city page tells you the FY2024 Fair Market Rent for studios through four-bedroom units, the HUD income limits for households of 1 through 8 people, the local Public Housing Agency that processes Section 8 vouchers, and a short FAQ about what rent ranges and eligibility actually look like in that area.
Where our data comes from
The community list is sourced from the U.S. Census Bureau 2023 TIGER/Line Gazetteer, which is the federal government's official list of incorporated places, towns, and census-designated places. Fair Market Rent and income-limit baselines come from HUD User's FY2024 Fair Market Rent dataset and the corresponding income-limit publications. Public Housing Agency contact information should always be verified against HUD's official PHA contacts directory, which is the authoritative source.
What we are not
RentEasy Guide is not an application portal. We can't add you to a waiting list, check your eligibility, or expedite a voucher. For any of those, you need to contact the housing authority listed on your city's page. We're a starting point, not a replacement for the official process — and we are very deliberately upfront about that.
Get in touch
If you find inaccurate information on a city page or want us to add a community we don't yet cover, please reach out via the resources page. We refresh the data once per HUD fiscal year as new FMR and income-limit tables are published.