Section 811 preservation
Find the Section 811 PRAC properties in your state that are eligible for RAD conversion, and the patterns and partners to look at first.
An exploratory research tool, not a guarantee. It is built from public HUD and Census data that may be incomplete, inaccurate, or out of date, and it does not claim to be perfect, complete, or accurate. It points to properties and patterns worth a closer look. It does not score properties or determine whether any property is integrated, accessible, financially viable, eligible, or suitable for conversion or transfer. More about this tool
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PRAC properties by assisted units. Small properties where every unit, or every unit but one, is assisted are likely group homes. They can be hard to finance one at a time and are candidates for batching or aggregation. Select a bar to filter the map and table.
Agents ranked by the number of Section 811 properties they manage. Select an agent to see its properties.
A rent well below Fair Market Rent at an older property may mean rents have not kept up with regular budget-based increases. These properties have little room to carry rehab debt today, and they may gain the most from a RAD conversion that brings rents up.
Districts ranked by PRAC assisted units, to inform conversations about funding conversions. Select a district to see its properties.
The Section 811 Portfolio Screener is an exploratory research tool from the Center for Public Enterprise. It is a starting point for planning, not a guarantee. It relies on public HUD and Census data that may be incomplete, inaccurate, or out of date, and CPE does not claim that the data or the analysis here are perfect, complete, or accurate. Categories such as “likely group home” are screens built from unit counts, not findings about any property. Verify property-level information with HUD, the owner, and the relevant state agencies before relying on it.
All HUD property IDs with a Section 811 Project Rental Assistance Contract (program type “PRAC/811”) or a Section 811 Project Rental Assistance contract (“811 PRA DEMO”) in HUD’s Multifamily Assistance & Section 8 Contracts database, current as of . All TRACS statuses are included. “Expired” generally means a renewal has not yet posted in TRACS; it does not mean assistance has ended. PAC/811 contracts are not included. Only PRAC properties are eligible for RAD conversion; PRA properties are shown for context and are hidden by default.
Assisted units are summed across a property’s Section 811 contracts. Total units come from HUD’s property record. For PRA properties, the Section 811 units sit inside larger, usually LIHTC-financed, developments.
HUD data does not identify group homes. A likely group home is a PRAC property with 8 or fewer assisted units (the statutory group-home limit) where every unit is assisted, or every unit but one (one unassisted unit is usually a resident manager’s unit). Small properties with two or more unassisted units, and larger properties, are grouped by how many units are not assisted. These are size categories only; they say nothing about whether a property is or is not integrated. The few properties where HUD lists more assisted than total units are counted with the “2+ unassisted” group in the chart.
Estimated year placed in service uses the occupancy date in HUD’s eGIS “Multifamily Properties – Assisted” layer. Where that is missing for a PRAC property, it uses the fund-reservation fiscal year in the contract number plus a three-year lag. Rent-to-FMR is HUD’s contract rent-to-Fair Market Rent ratio, unit-weighted across contracts; HUD describes it as a guide only. Estimated gross rent per unit month is that ratio times the bedroom-weighted FMR on the contract.
Districts are the 119th Congress boundaries from the Census Bureau’s 2025 cartographic boundary files. Each property is assigned by its map location; one property without coordinates uses HUD’s reported district, and the rest without a usable address have none. Several states, including California, Florida, Louisiana, North Carolina, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas and Utah, adopted new maps for the November 2026 election, which take effect with the next Congress in January 2027; the tool will move to the 120th Congress boundaries once Census publishes them.
Coordinates come from HUD’s eGIS layer. A few properties are placed with the Census Geocoder or at a ZIP code centroid (noted in the property details). Properties without a usable address appear in the table only.