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Subsidized Housing Still Requires 30-Day Rent Notice

The eCFR text, current to September 3, 2026, still requires 30 days' notice. HUD's rule revoking that requirement had its effective date delayed indefinitely.

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What matters now

  • The 30-day minimum is still in the section text the eCFR displays, on a record up to date as of **September 3, 2026**.
  • HUD published a rule revoking that requirement on **February 26, 2026** (91 FR 9449), then delayed its effective date indefinitely on **March 13, 2026** (91 FR 12301).
  • HUD's delay document states: "HUD will now treat the interim final rule as a proposed rule."

The 30-day minimum notice before a nonpayment termination notice takes effect in federally subsidized housing is still in the federal regulation text. The eCFR’s record of title 24 is up to date as of September 3, 2026, and title 24 was last amended August 20, 2026. In the section text displayed for that record, 24 CFR 247.4 still sets a 30-day floor before a termination notice for unpaid rent becomes effective, and the parallel public-housing rule at 24 CFR 966.4 still requires at least 30 days’ notice.

That answer is narrow on purpose. It describes what two sections of the Code of Federal Regulations and two Federal Register documents say about themselves. These federal sections do not set state or local notice periods, and parts 247 and 966 do not reach unsubsidized private tenancies.

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Key points

  • The 30-day minimum is still in the section text the eCFR displays, on a record up to date as of September 3, 2026.
  • HUD published a rule revoking that requirement on February 26, 2026 (91 FR 9449), then delayed its effective date indefinitely on March 13, 2026 (91 FR 12301).
  • HUD’s delay document states: “HUD will now treat the interim final rule as a proposed rule.”

Rule text still in force

The sentence readers usually mean sits in § 247.4(c), the paragraph headed “Time of service.” It reads: “In cases of nonpayment of rent, the termination notice shall be effective no earlier than 30 days after receipt by the tenant of the termination notice.” It fixes the earliest date the notice itself can be effective, counted from the tenant’s receipt of that notice.

Public housing carries its own parallel requirement in a different part of the same title. Under § 966.4(l)(3)(i), which sets the notice periods a public housing agency must give for lease termination, subparagraph (A) requires “At least 30 days in the case of failure to pay rent”. The two sections cover different programs — part 247 for subsidized projects, part 966 for public housing — but on this point the displayed text of both still carries 30 days.

Banners above the section

Both sections are displayed with inline banners above the text, and those banners are why the question keeps coming up. On § 247.4 the first one reads: “Link to an amendment published at 91 FR 9452, Feb. 26, 2026.” It tells the reader that an amendment to this section was published on that date, at the page the banner cites, while the text underneath it still carries the 30-day sentence.

The second banner on § 247.4 says what became of that amendment: “This amendment was delayed indefinitely at 91 FR 12301, Mar. 13, 2026.” Read as a pair, the banners record two events about one amendment — its publication on February 26, 2026, and its indefinite delay on March 13, 2026. Neither banner changes the section text below them.

The indefinite delay document

The rule being delayed is HUD’s interim final rule “Revocation of the 30-Day Notification Requirement Prior To Termination of Lease for Nonpayment of Rent,” published February 26, 2026 at 91 FR 9449. The document published March 13, 2026 at 91 FR 12301 delays that rule’s effective date, and its own DATES text states: “As of March 13, 2026, the effective date of the interim final rule published in the Federal Register on February 26, 2026, at 91 FR 9449, is delayed indefinitely pending consideration of public comments.”

The same document also states: “HUD will now treat the interim final rule as a proposed rule.” Three facts then sit side by side in the record: the interim final rule set its own effective date as March 30, 2026; the March 13, 2026 document delayed that effective date indefinitely, before it arrived; and the section text the eCFR displays still carries the 30-day requirement. Taken together, the revocation never took effect.

Wording split between sections

The same delay reads differently depending on which section a reader opens. Section 966.4 carries its own pair of banners — “Link to an amendment published at 91 FR 9453, Feb. 26, 2026.” and “Link to a delay of the above amendment published at 91 FR 12301, Mar. 13, 2026.” — and that second line is worded differently from § 247.4’s. Both point to the same March 13 document at 91 FR 12301, and each cites the page its own section’s amendment is cited to. A reader comparing the two pages is seeing one event described twice, not two different delays.

Who these sections cover

Each part sets out its own reach. Section 247.1 confines subpart A to a landlord’s decision to end a tenant’s occupancy in what § 247.2(e) defines as a subsidized project, and it carves out §§ 247.5 and 247.6(c). The same section puts tenancies assisted through the Housing Voucher Program’s tenant-based assistance outside part 247 altogether. Section 966.1 applies part 966 to public housing and gives subpart A the task of setting what every public housing dwelling lease must incorporate.

That boundary matters for reading the answer above. These two sections speak only to the subsidized and public housing tenancies they name. They do not set the notice period for an unsubsidized private tenancy, and they do not set state or local notice requirements.

Current edition of the text

The answer above is pinned to a dated edition. The eCFR’s record shows title 24 up to date as of September 3, 2026, with the title last amended August 20, 2026, so that is the version of §§ 247.4 and 966.4 described here. The delay carries no end date in the record; the reason it gives is the pending consideration of public comments.

As of September 5, 2026, no later Federal Register document had finalized, withdrawn, superseded, or re-dated the interim final rule since the March 13, 2026 delay. The records this answer rests on are listed below.

Source records

Sources
  1. 24 CFR 247.4, current edition (eCFR)
  2. 24 CFR 966.4, current edition (eCFR)
  3. 24 CFR 247.1, applicability, current edition (eCFR)
  4. 24 CFR 966.1, purpose and applicability, current edition (eCFR)
  5. Revocation of the 30-Day Notification Requirement Prior To Termination of Lease for Nonpayment of Rent (interim final rule), 91 FR 9449
  6. Delay of effective date, 91 FR 12301
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