Grants totaling $39.9 million in 21 states has been announced by The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). These grants dedicated to help non-elderly individuals and families with disabilities to get an affordable private house.
Mel Martinez, HUD Secretary said “Because of their special needs, young people with disabilities often face difficulties finding suitable, accessible housing they can afford,” then he follows “These vouchers will give them the financial assistance they need to find safe, affordable housing.”
These two HUD programs will be helping Housing Choice Vouchers to non-elderly disabled families, they are:
* Rental Assistance for Non-Elderly Persons with Disabilities Related to Certain Developments – $23.5 million
* Rental Assistance for Non-Elderly Persons with Disabilities in Support of Designated Housing Plans – $16.4 million
The qualified applicants may use these vouchers to have the opportunity to pay not more than 30 percent of their income for renting housing units.
*States and Cities Participating in this Housing Assistance Program
Actually the vouchers are originally a part of three existing HUD programs, they are:
* Mainstream vouchers
Help both elderly and non-elderly families that have disabled family members
* Designated housing vouchers
This program will assist non-elderly families who are eligible and Families affected by a PHA decision.
* Certain development vouchers
This kind of vouchers will help non-elderly families which have disabled family members who are not yet received any housing assistance restricted to elderly families.
How to Get Information and Assistance?
To get this new rental vouchers, you can contact Public Housing Agency (PHA) office in your city or a city near you. These vouchers is provided via HUD and administrated by local PHA. You may try to contact PHA in every access including Street addresses, phone numbers and email as well as web sites for all PHA offices. You can check HUD’s PHA page at: http://www.hud.gov/offices/pih/pha/contacts/index.cfm, find any information you need and you are ready to apply.
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