Section 8, or the Housing Choice Voucher Program, is a Federalhousing program which provides housing assistance to low-incomerenters and homeowners. This assistance comes in the form of rentalsubsidies, limiting the monthly rent payment of the assistancerecipient. How much rent is too much rent? Well, several factorswill lead you to that magic number.First, and most important is how much you can personally afford.The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), theU.S. Census Bureau, the Rural Housing Service (RHS), and most statehousing departments consider annual housing costs to be"affordable" if they do not exceed 30%of a family's annual income(including utility payments).Second, housing costs vary from state to state or from city tocity. What is an appropriate rent in San F