The Reading Housing Authority will open its public housing waiting list beginning Tuesday, Sept. 8, for several apartment and household categories across its properties in Reading.<\/p>\n
Applications will be accepted online beginning at 8 a.m. Sept. 8 and must be received by midnight Thursday, Sept. 10.<\/p>\n
The waiting list will open for studio apartments for one-person households and one-bedroom apartments for two-person households in which applicants are elderly, age 62 or older, or have a disability and are at least 18 years old. Those units are located at Rhodes, Eisenhower and Hubert Apartments, Kennedy and Franklin Towers, and Hensler Homes.<\/p>\n
RHA will also accept applications for general occupancy units ranging from one to four bedrooms at Glenside and Oakbrook Homes. Applications for five-bedroom units will be accepted for Oakbrook Homes only.<\/p>\n
Families must qualify for the bedroom size requested based on RHA\u2019s occupancy standard of one bedroom for every two people, with limited exceptions.<\/p>\n
RHA uses a one-offer policy, meaning eligible applicants cannot select a particular housing development. Instead, they will be offered the first available unit for which they meet the criteria.<\/p>\n
The housing authority said not every application received during the three-day period is expected to be placed on a waiting list. If the number of applications exceeds more than 18 months of predicted unit availability, RHA may use a lottery-based selection process to determine which applicants are added.<\/p>\n
Preference will be given to individuals and families who live in the City of Reading, as well as families with a household member who is a qualifying service member or veteran under Pennsylvania law.<\/p>\n
Being accepted onto a waiting list does not guarantee housing assistance. Applicants must also meet eligibility requirements established in RHA\u2019s Admissions and Continued Occupancy Policy.<\/p>\n
RHA said reasonable accommodations may be requested by people with disabilities to assist them in accessing its housing programs.<\/p>\n
Applications can be submitted through the Reading Housing Authority website beginning Sept. 8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Reading Housing Authority will open its public housing waiting list beginning Tuesday, Sept. 8, for several apartment…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-273631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}