Daily News | How to apply for the newly reopened Housing Choice Voucher program in Philly
, which far exceeded the number of vouchers they had at the time. In order to catch up with the backlog of applicants, PHA closed the waitlist and hasn’t reopened it until now.Over the last decade PHA has worked through their 2010 waitlist and are now reopening it to add 10,000 new households. In order to clear through this new waitlist in a three to five-year period, PHA is going with a new selection process.
“Under this system, all applications in the lottery pool have an equal chance of being selected.” said PHA President and CEO Kelvin A. Jeremiah. “Going forward, this process will allow PHA to open the HCV waiting list more frequently, providing others in the community a chance to apply in just a few years when the waiting list is reopened.
This isn’t unprecedented either. According to PHA, the lottery method is allowed under federal regulations and has been used successfully by other large U.S. housing agencies.PHA will randomly select 10,000 applicants by lottery to be put on the HCV waitlist. However, there will be a preference to applicants who live, work, or have been hired to work within the Philadelphia city limits.
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