Panorama of the Jacksonville city skyline from across the St. Johns river in Jacksonville, Florida, USA. Jacksonville is the largest city in land area in the United States (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The chance to enroll on the waiting list started early this morning and will run through 5 p.m. at Metro Park.
The Jacksonville Housing Authority is selecting the Section 8 waiting list through a lottery program.
All applications must be done in person at the Metro Park location today before 5 p.m.
It could take up to three years for a subsidized unit to become available.
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GRBJ is reporting that Grand Rapids Housing Commission Executive Director Carlos Sanchez wants to replace Creston Plaza — the 100 unit, city owned housing development at 1014 Clancy Ave. NE — with about 90 new apartments targeted for low- and moderate-income residents on the same 12.4-acre site and build the rest about a quarter of a mile southeast of the site.
The new apartments will be converted to HUD’s Section 8 program, which gives residents housing vouchers.
The project, which will also include a community center and will be done in two stages, is expected to cost $20.6 million. Sixty-five of the units will be built in the first phase, with the rest going up in the next stage. The first phase is expected to be finished in the fall of 2014 with the entire project being completed the following June. Demolition work should begin this spring.
GRHC was recently named one of 68 public housing authorities nationwide to recently receive an initial Rental Assistance Demonstration award from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
The award, which the agency applied for last year, will let the commission secure the necessary private and public funding to replace the 40-year-old Creston Plaza.
The commission also will apply for federal and state low-income housing credits for apartment complex.
The RAD award allows the GRHC to use tax credits to attract private funding.
RAD is a creation of the Obama administration, and it expects the program will create new construction jobs, save 13,000 affordable housing units and generate $650 million in private capital. Nationwide, HUD estimated there is a $26 billion backlog in capital needs for public housing authorities.
“This innovative and cost-effective approach greatly enhances our ability to confront the decline of our public housing and older assisted housing stock,” said HUD Secretary Shawn Donovan in a statement.
The public housing authorities in Ann Arbor and Plymouth also were recipients of the RAD awards. In fact, Ann Arbor received two.
GRHC, which was established in 1966 to provide affordable places to live, currently operates seven low-income housing developments.
The San Antonio Housing Authority says Section 8 waiting lists have been getting longer for the past several years. Right now the housing authority has 12,700 vouchers that it is allotted from the federal government used for rental assistance. All of those are taken.
There are 22,000 more applicants that are waiting for assistance. The housing authority says that they will have to wait for someone to get off the program for them to allow anyone else to get a voucher.
Half the people on Section 8 housing are families on a fixed income like the elderly and the disabled. They are more likely to be on the program longer.
Housing Community Services, Inc. offers low-income housing to people that make less than 50 percent of the medium income in that neighborhood. They say while they don’t offer a voucher in assistance for rental payments, they do offer rents for less than market value.
They said that if a family qualifies for Section 8 housing they also qualify for low-income housing. HCS says rent will be based on income.
So far, they have 75 to100 properties available for program participants.
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The Norwich Housing Authority is opening its Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program waiting list from September 7, 2012 to September 14, 2012.
Pre-applications will only be accepted by mail to the Norwich Housing Authority at P.O. Box 1008, Norwich, CT 06360 and must be postmarked between September 7 and September 14.
The public notice and pre-application form is available here.
The South Central MN Multi-County HRA has Section 8 rental assistance vouchers available for individuals and families that live or work or attend full-time higher education in the HRA service area of Martin, Nicollet, Sibley, Waseca and Watonwan counties.
Applications are available on our website at www.scmmchra.org, or by calling the HRA office at 507-345-1977 or 800-733-9564, or by stopping at the HRA office at 360 Pierce Avenue, Suite 106, North Mankato, MN 56003.
The Housing Choice Voucher Program – Section 8 is a federally funded rental assistance program that subsidizes rent for eligible tenants. Our goal is to serve the maximum number of clients in our service area as funding permits.
The waiting list time is currently one to two months for eligible applicants pursuing affordable housing through the Housing Choice Voucher Program – Section 8 rental assistance.
Waiting list application will be accepted in person at the BMHA Administrative office located at 300 Perry Street, Buffalo NY 14204 from 8:00am until 4:30pm on Tuesday June 19th and Wednesday June 20th.
Starting Thursday June 21, applications will be accepted at the BMHA Housing Assistance Office located at 245 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo NY.
Pre-qualification forms will be available online at 7 a.m. on June 29, according to the Osceola County Section 8 Housing Office. Pre-qualification will end at 11:59 p.m. on July 1. The web site is http://section8.osceola.org.
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For applicants needing assistance, the Section 8 Housing staff will be available at Extension Services, Osceola Heritage Park, 1921 Kissimmee Valley Lane, from 7 a.m. until 7 p.m. only on June 29.
Assistance is also available at the following locations from June 29 through July 1 (Please note the day and times of availability):
Arrow Ridge Apartments
4100 Arrow Ridge Place, Kissimmee, FL 34741
June 29: 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.
June 30: 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
July 1: Noon – 5 p.m.
Fountains at San Remo
814 Perth Place, Suite 102, Kissimmee FL 34758
June 29: 9 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Regatta Bay Apartments
801 Coastal Bay Lane, Kissimmee, FL 34741
June 29: 9 a.m. – 6 p.m.
June 30: 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Kissimmee Reef Club Apartments
1915 Reef Club Drive, Kissimmee, FL 34741
June 29: 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.
June 30: 10 a..m. – 5 p.m.
July 1: Noon – 5 p.m.
Summer Cove Apartments
200 Pine Valley Road, St. Cloud FL 34769
June 29: 9 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Wellington Woods Apartments
4100 Wellington Woods Circle, Kissimmee, Fl 34741
June 29: 9 a.m. – 6 p.m.
June 30: 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
July 1: Noon – 5 p.m.
Kissimmee Oak Leaf Landing
2530 N. Central Avenue, Kissimmee, FL 34741
June 29: 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.
For more information please contact the Section 8 Housing Office at (407) 742-8406 or go to http://section8.osceola.org.
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A massive alleged scheme involving Section 8 housing vouchers has resulted in at least seven arrests, city housing and Los Angeles Police Department officials said Friday.
The alleged scheme unfolded after an individual approached a housing officer and offered bribes for Section 8 housing vouchers last December, according to Annie Kim, spokeswoman for the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles.
The vouchers reduce rents for low-income families, elderly and disabled persons. The city currently has about 47,000 vouchers, but the wait list is closed, making the vouchers extremely difficult to obtain.
According to LAPD Lt. Andrew Neiman, the main suspect offered $2,000 for every client the HACLA advisor would approve for the vouchers. The suspect also asked the criteria and screening process be waived on Section 8 applications.
The HACLA advisor alerted authorities, kicking off a major operation involving the LAPD Major Crimes Division Criminal Investigation, Rampart Division, Housing Authority Investigators, and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Search warrants led investigators to Glendale, the West Valley, Hollywood and Northeast Los Angeles. Seven suspects were arrested and $175,000 was recovered during the arrests. The primary suspect pled guilty to bribing a public official, according to the press release.
Neiman couldn’t immediately provide the names of the suspects.
LAPD Chief Charlie
Beck called the crime “deplorable” in a statement.
Kim said the last time a Section 8 Housing voucher scandal erupted was in 2008, when a man was arrested for selling fake vouchers through Craigslist. The man posed as a Housing Authority employee with a fake agency badge, and met the victims at the Housing Authority office at 2500 Wilshire Blvd.
The victims paid $2,500 for the fake vouchers.
The man pleaded guilty to grand theft and was convicted to 6 years in prison in 2009.
In general, people who buy black market vouchers for Section 8 housing are “desperate,” said Kim.
“We don’t want to see more of these cases,” she added.
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Home Forward is planning to open waiting lists on five low-income housing projects in North, Northwest, Northeast and Southwest Portland.
The waiting lists will begin opening next week for people who need subsidized housing, and residents are required to pay 27.5 percent of their total income for renting a unit.
The first waiting list to open will be forNew Columbia, 2605 N. Trenton St. Lists for units of several sizes will be open from Tuesday, June 26 through Thursday, June 28. Public housing waiting lists will be available for one, two, four and five-bedroom units, and Section 8 housing waiting lists will include four, five and six-bedroom apartments.
To qualify for these homes, residents must have a household income of less than 60 percent of the area median income. Applications will be available beginning at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, June 26 at the leasing office, 4605 N. Trenton St. They can also be downloaded from the New Columbia website.
In Northeast Portland, Home Forward will be opening a waiting list at Hollywood East, 4400 N.E. Broadway, a studio apartment building. In Northwest Portland, there will be a list for theNorthwest Tower, 335 N.W. 19th Ave., and Williams Plaza, 2041 N.W. Everett St. In Southwest Portland, a waiting list for one-bedroom apartments in the Ruth Haefner Plaza, 6005 S.W. Beaverton-Hillsdale Hwy., will be available.
Waiting lists for all three buildings will be open from Wednesday, July 11 through Friday, July 13. To qualify for residency, one person in the household must be 55 or older, or have a disability that can be verified by a doctor. Also, the household income must be less than 80 percent of the area median income.
Applications will be available at 9 a.m. on July 11 at any of Home Forward’s public housing community leasing offices, and they can be downloaded at the Home Forward website. The applications can be submitted in person at the four buildings.
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Waiting list application will be accepted in person at the BMHA Administrative office located at 300 Perry Street, Buffalo NY 14204 from 8:00am until 4:30pm on Tuesday June 19th and Wednesday June 20th.
Starting Thursday June 21, applications will be accepted at the BMHA Housing Assistance Office located at 245 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo NY.
Notice to Pay Rent or Vacate
One of the more difficult aspects of being a landlord is dealing with tenants who haven't paid their rent. With this legal, customizable form, you can remind your tenants of their obligations and protect yourself legally as well.
