Eligibility and Applications
Conventional Public Housing
Minimum Eligibility Criteria
The applicant must meet the below listed minimum eligibility criteria:
- Individual or family with household income less than 80% of the local area median income.
- Meet citizenship/eligible immigration status.
- Provide requested documents such as copies of Social Security cards, birth certificates, photo ID, proof of income, etc.
- Criminal and credit background reports will be obtained for all adult (18 years and older) household members. All criminal report data must be in compliance with RHA’s Admissions and Occupancy policy.
Incentive Public Housing
Minimum Eligibility Criteria
Applicants who meet the criteria listed under conventional public housing, may also be eligible for the incentive public housing program.
- Incentive housing is provided to families who: 1) work full time as defined as 35 or more hours per week and have maintained full time employment for at least 24 months prior to admission; 2) are elderly; or 3) are disabled.
- Residents have one opportunity to reside in an Incentive Community for up to a ten-year cumulative period of time. This restriction does not apply to the elderly and/or disabled.
- Families who are unable to continue to work full time or are not ready to vacate at the end of the ten-year time period will be transferred to conventional public housing.
- Once a tenant vacates or transfers out of an Incentive Community, the tenant terminates their one-time opportunity and will no longer be eligible to reside in any of the public housing Incentive Communities.
All RHA Section 8 Voucher and Public Housing waiting lists are temporarily closed and are not accepting new applications. Once waiting lists are opened, information will be posted here for how to apply and register to our online portal RentCafe. If you are already on a waiting list, you can log into RentCafe to confirm your status. Waiting list applicants are not assigned a number, simply because your position may shift as new applicants are added and others are taken off the waiting lists.
Applicants currently on the waiting list may make changes to their application by logging into their account on the RentCafe portal. Click the “Report a Change” section.
