Analysis by Ayat Elkarib
Last Updated: February, 23rd 2024
This housing authority participates in the Rhode Island Housing Choice Voucher Program Centralized Wait List, which is a partnership between 18 of the 28 housing authorities in Rhode Island. Applicants submit one application to apply to a centralized waiting list. Conditionally eligible applicants will be placed on a housing authority's waiting list if they fall within the agency's maximum income limit.
The Rhode Island Housing Choice Voucher Program Centralized Wait List Portal is accepting Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher waiting list applications from December 17, 2017 at 12:01 am ET, until further notice.
To apply while the waiting list is open, complete the online application.
Applications that are mailed, faxed, e-mailed or hand delivered will not be processed.
The waiting list will be sorted differently by each housing authority according to its own preferences.
Participating housing authorities may have any of the following preferences: Chronically Homeless (Pawtucket), Disabled Head or Co-Head (Cumberland and some RIHousing Project Based Voucher sites), Disabled Vet (Smithfield, Woonsocket), Displacement (Newport and Woonsocket), For Elderly Families (Cumberland and some RIHousing Project Based Voucher sites), Full-Time Student (North Providence), Homeless Preference (RI Housing), Job Training (Portsmouth, Woonsocket), Money Follows the Person (RI Housing), Near Elderly (North Providence), Relocation, Rent Burdened (Woonsocket), Supportive Services (Certain RIHousing Project Based Voucher sites, Termination due to Insufficient Funding, Family previously terminated from the Johnston Housing Authority Housing Choice Voucher Program (ONLY) due to insufficient funding, Unstable Housing Situation (RI Housing), Veteran (East Greenwich, East Providence, Pawtucket, Smithfield, South Kingstown, Warren, Woonsocket), Victim of Domestic Violence (Providence, Portsmouth, Woonsocket, RI Housing tenant-based and certain Project Based Voucher sites), Witness Protection (Woonsocket), Working Family and/or Elderly/Disabled (Central Falls, Coventry, Newport, North Providence, Pawtucke, Warwick [if working, 30 hours/week], Woonsocket [if working, 20 hours/week for at least 1 month])
Selected applicants will be placed on the waiting list by date and time the application is received, by order of preferences.
For more information, visit the Rhode Island Housing website.
Sources: This information was verified by the Rhode Island Centralized page on January 29, 2024.
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The application may be completed online at http://www.waitlist-centralri.com/rih-live/index.aspx.
Rhode Island Housing Choice Voucher has preferences for: Near-Elderly, Elderly, Displaced by Natural Disaster, Victims of Domestic Violence, Veterans, Working/Employed, Homeless, Live in Substandard Housing, Disabled, Rent Burdened, Terminated from Assistance Due to Lack of Funding, Chronic Homeless, Enrolled in Higher Education, Enrolled in Job Training, Money Follows The Person. Preferences are not required but Centralized applicants that meet these criteria will be moved up the waiting list.
Rhode Island Housing Choice Voucher Centralized Waiting List is managed by Rhode Island Housing Choice Voucher Program Centralized Wait List.
Rhode Island Housing Choice Voucher Program Centralized Wait List provides affordable housing for up to 0 low- and moderate-income households through its programs.
This housing agency serves Barrington, Bristol, Central Falls, Charlestown, Coventry, Cumberland, East Greenwich, East Providence, Exeter, Glocester, Hopkinton, Jamestown, Johnston, Lincoln, Little Compton, Middletown, Narragansett, New Shoreham, Newport, North Kingstown, North Providence, North Smithfield, Pawtucket, Portsmouth, Scituate, Smithfield, South Kingstown, Warren, Warwick, West Greenwich, Woonsocket, Rhode Island.
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