HUD Announces New TPVs for EHV Households
By Tushar Gurjal, Senior Policy Manager
October 1, 2026 – Yesterday, HUD published a notice titled “Availability of Tenant Protection Vouchers for Emergency Housing Voucher Families” (Notice PIH 2026-25). The notice states that HUD will provide tenant protection vouchers (TPVs) for all emergency housing voucher (EHV) families under lease as of September 30, 2026. These households will be required to convert from EHV to EHV-TPVs by the end of December 2026. At that time, the EHV program will end.
HUD provides the following table (reproduced from the notice):
| Date | Event |
| On or about October 1, 2026 | HUD notifies PHAs of potential EHV-TPV award amounts based on an estimated number of EHV families under lease as of September 30, 2026. |
| 11:59:59 p.m. ET on October 15, 2026 | Deadline for PHAs to respond to HUD with a correction of HUD’s estimate, if necessary. |
| December 2026 | HUD awards all EHV-TPV funds in one round of funding (equivalent to 1 month of TPV funding for CY 2026), and PHAs transition families from EHV to EHV-TPV assistance. |
| CY 2027 | Future EHV-TPV funding will be provided as first-time renewals, subject to the availability of future appropriations. |
The new EHV-TPVs will provide funding for 1 month (December 2026). Past that payment, these EHV-TPVs will be added to the housing assistance payments renewals (HAP) account which is funded through the appropriations process.
In calculating the award, HUD will estimate funding eligibility for EHV-TPVs based on the average per unit cost (PUC) in the PHA’s EHV program and that total units estimated to be under lease as of September 30, 2026 using July 2026 voucher management system (VMS) data and current Inventory Management System / Public and Indian Housing Information Center (IMS/PIC) data. If a housing agency believes that it is not receiving enough to fund its EHV households, it should contact HUD at [email protected]. It will need to document why the calculation is incorrect.
Housing agencies will receive administrative fees for the EHV-TPV funding on the same basis as the general HCV program. Any EHV specific fees do not apply to these vouchers. EHV-TPVs may not be reissued and may not be project-based. The housing agencies’ administrative plans regarding payment standards for HCV program participants are applicable to the EHV-TPV families.
Former EHV households that transitioned to the HCV program or any other housing assistance program before September 30, 2026 are not eligible for new EHV-TPVs. EHV-TPVs must be tracked separately from other vouchers and may not be turned over.
Cryptically, the notice includes a paragraph on “other reporting” beyond the reporting typically required for vouchers. It states that recipients acknowledge HUD “. . . is in the process or implementing new grants management and reporting tools . . .” and agree “. . . to report on grant performance and financial activities (including vendor and cash disbursement supporting details for the recipient and its subrecipients) using these new tools when they are released and to satisfy occasional requests for records pertinent to the Federal award . . . .” It also notes that “HUD will work with the recipient to support its transition to the new reporting tools.” It is unclear if this paragraph is a reference to the new HUD Unified Grants System (HUGS) that HUD is in the process of creating. It had been NAHRO’s understanding that the HUGS system would not apply to the HCV program, so the purpose of this paragraph is unclear (i.e., will landlords be required to submit receipts for how they spend their rental payments?).
The full notice can be found here.