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Flint Housing Commission is a housing authority that participates in the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher (HCV), and Public Housing programs.
Flint Housing Commission serves Genesee County.
Waiting List | Status |
---|---|
Genesee County, Michigan Housing Choice Voucher | Closed |
Berkeley Place Project-Based Voucher | Closed |
1 and 2-Bedroom Public Housing | Closed |
Efficiency/0-Bedroom Public Housing | Closed |
The Flint Housing Commission (FHC) Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher waiting list is currently closed. Applications were last accepted from December 15, 2020, until December 17, 2020. There is no notice of when this waiting list will reopen.
To apply during the opening period, applicants were required to complete the online application.
Preferences have not yet been confirmed.
500 applicants were placed on the waiting list by random lottery.
For more information, visit the FHC website.
Sources: This information was verified by the FHC public notice on December 11, 2020.
This waiting list is for rental assistance in Genesee County, Michigan.
Last Updated on 06/14/2021.
The Flint Housing Commission (FHC) Section 8 Project-Based Voucher waiting list for apartments at Berkeley Place is currently closed. Applications were last accepted since at least May, 2021 until May 4, 2021.
To apply during the opening period, applicants were required to complete the online application.
Preferences have not yet been confirmed.
150 applicants were placed on the waiting list by random lottery.
For more information, visit the FHC website.
Sources: This information was verified by the Michigan Live Journal public notice, on May 26, 2021.
This waiting list is for rental assistance in Flint, Michigan.
Last Updated on 03/10/2022.
The Flint Housing Commission (FHC) Public Housing waiting list for 1 and 2-Bedroom apartments is currently closed. Applications were last accepted from September 11, 2017 until January 18, 2021.
To apply during the opening period, applicants were required to pick up an application at the FHC office.
This waiting list had the following preferences:
It was not known how applicants will be placed on the waiting list.
For more information, visit the FHC website.
Sources: This information was verified by the FHC on May 26, 2021.
This waiting list is for rental assistance in Flint, Michigan. Apartments offered through this waiting list are only located within this service area.
Last Updated on 06/03/2021.
The Flint Housing Commission (FHC) Public Housing waiting list for Efficiency/0-Bedroom apartments is currently closed. Applications were last accepted on June 3, 2021. There is no notice of when this waiting list will reopen.
There were two ways to apply during the opening period:
Once the application was completed, it must have been either:
This waiting list had the following preferences:
It was not known how applicants will be placed on the waiting list.
For more information, visit the FHC website.
Sources: This information was verified by the FHC on May 26, 2021.
This waiting list is for rental assistance in Flint, Michigan. Apartments offered through this waiting list are only located within this service area.
Last Updated on 06/04/2021.
More information about Flint Housing Commission can be found on its website at http://www.flinthc.org.
Representatives of Flint Housing Commission may be available by phone at (810) 736-3050. Unless otherwise noted above, applications will not be provided or accepted by phone.
As of 05/27/2022, it is not known if Flint Housing Commission is either absorbing or billing Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher portability requests for porting in. Learn more about porting Housing Choice Vouchers to a new area here.
As of the HUDs most recent Voucher Management System report, Flint Housing Commission manages 734 active Housing Choice Vouchers.
The following is a summary of the types of vouchers managed and the monthly costs of each as of September 30th, 2021:
Standard | Family Unification | Tenant Protection | VASH | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Vouchers | 672 | 1 | 19 | 42 |
Monthly Cost Per Voucher | $446 | $268 | $634 | $368 |
Monthly Cost | $299,905 | $268 | $12,051 | $15,458 |
According to the 2016 Q4 Picture of Subsidized Households database, the housing authority's voucher program has an annual turnover of 2% having issued approximately 394 vouchers in the past year. The average voucher holder has received housing benefits for 8 years and 2 months. According to the 2016 PSH database, persons who were issued a voucher in the preceding 12 months waited an average of 23 months on the waiting list1.
According to 2016 Q4 Picture of Subsidized Households data, the average voucher household contains 2.5 persons and has a household income of $11,779 per year. 92% of households were very low income (VLI) and 68% were extremely low income (ELI). 38% of households had wages as a major source of income, 2% of households had welfare (TANF, General Assistance or Public Assistance) as their primary source of income, and 56% of households had other income (Social Security, Disability or Pension) as their major source of income.
0% of households were headed by a person 24 years old or less, 67% were headed by a person 25 to 49 years old, 22% were headed by a person 51 to 60 years old, and 11% were headed by a person 62 years old or older. In addition, 0% of households were headed by a person 85 years old or older.
54% of households included children, 1% of which had two adults in the household. 53% of households with children have a female head of household. 86% of all households were headed by a female.
95% of all voucher households were headed by minorities with 94% of all heads of households being Black and 0% being Hispanic.
Of all households participating in the Flint Housing Commission Housing Choice Voucher program, 21% include at least one person with a disability. 31% of households with a head of household 61 years or less were headed by a person with a disability. 91% of households headed by someone 62 or older were headed by a person with a disability.
23% of voucher holders reside in a home with zero or 1 bedroom, 32% with 2 bedrooms and 45% with 3 or more bedrooms. 18% of voucher recipients are considered overhoused, meaning they occupy a rental unit larger than their family size requires.
The average monthly tenant contribution to rent by Flint Housing Commission voucher holders in 2016 was $304 and the average monthly HUD expenditure per voucher holder was $522. The average utility allowance across all voucher recipients is $159.
1. This Picture of Subsidized Households data field is the average wait time of those who received a voucher in the preceding 12 months. Due to special voucher programs like VASH, recent waiting list purges, or waiting list preferences the average wait time can vary significantly from one year to the next and it is entirely possible many current applicants on the waiting list have been waiting for assistance for far longer.