---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 12803"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "12803"
heading: "Rental rehabilitation"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/12803"
units:
  - "Chapter 130 — National Affordable Housing"
  - "Subchapter II — Investment in Affordable Housing"
  - "Part D — Specified Model Programs"
---

# §12803. Rental rehabilitation

- (a) **In general—** The [Secretary](/usc/42/12704.md?p=16) shall make available a model program to support the rehabilitation of privately owned rental [housing](/usc/42/12704.md?p=8) located in neighborhoods where the median income does not exceed 80 percent of the area median as determined by the [Secretary](/usc/42/12704.md?p=16) and where rents can reasonably be expected not to change materially over an extended period of time.
- (b) **Amount of subsidy—** The amount of the rehabilitation subsidy shall be moderate and shall generally not exceed 50 percent of the total costs associated with the rehabilitation of the [housing](/usc/42/12704.md?p=8).
- (c) **Additional restrictions—** The guidelines of the model program shall generally comport with the additional protections and restrictions specified under [section 1437o(c)](/usc/42/1437o.md)[^1] of this title.

## Footnotes

[^1]: See References in Text note below.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 101–625, title II, § 253, Nov. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 4121.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

Section 1437o of this title, referred to in subsec. (c), was repealed by Pub. L. 101–625, title II, § 289(b), Nov. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 4128.