New Hampshire housing and rental assistance.
Short term rental assistance is available from the New Hampshire Emergency Housing Program. This can help qualified low to moderate income families and individuals pay their rent when they have no other options. It is a program of last resort. It may be able to assist hen local municipalities and towns are unable to offer other rent and housing assistance.
While the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) funds the program, it is run and managed at the state level. The New Hampshire Emergency Housing Program is limited in nature, and only a small number of people can receive any type of financial aid from it at any one time.
In total up to 3 months of emergency rental assistance can be offered. Since the program is very limited in nature, a number of conditions will need to be met by applicants, including those listed below. The government organization that runs these various programs, and that can provide additional information, is the New Hampshire Housing, and they can be reached at (800) 439-7247.
- Participants in the program will need to be a state resident.
- The applicant needs to be in danger of eviction due to an emergency situation or financial difficulty. It must be an unexpected emergency, and can’t be caused by the applicant.
- The program is one of last resort. This means that all other potential sources of housing and rental assistance must be explored and exhausted before the state of New Hampshire will help.
- Income criteria need to be met, including the total household income of the applicant must be 50% or less of the area’s median income.
Assistance from the New Hampshire Emergency Housing Program
As indicated above, the funds paid out originate from the federal government. A decision is made annually as to how much money the state will receive. The non-profit New Hampshire Housing organization can help tenants who are struggling pay their rent as a result of this.
Assistance provided by the state can help people pay their past due rent payments by paying a portion of the applicants total monthly household expenses directly to the landlord. In total up to three months of rent can be paid by the state. In addition to the various criteria indicated above, in order to receive emergency housing assistance the following must happen first.
- The family must live in an affordable and reasonably priced home or apartment. The rent that the applicant is paying must be determined by the staff from the New Hampshire Housing Authority to be reasonable.
- The home or apartment must pass a Housing Quality Standards inspection by the state.
- Since funds are paid directly to your landlord, the landlord must agree to participate in the housing assistance program.
- If you do not live in an apartment or home that currently qualifies when you reach the top of the waiting list, individuals will need to wait at minimum sixty (60) days to locate to new housing that does qualify for help.
If someone is not qualified, then New Hampshire Housing offers several other rental assistance programs to eligible low- and moderate-income persons and families.
Additional New Hampshire Housing programs
In addition to the state emergency rental assistance program referenced above, residents have a few other housing programs that are available to them. They include these listed below.
The federal government funded Housing Choice Voucher Rental Assistance Program (also commonly called section 8) provides qualified low income, seniors, and working poor with affordable, safe, sanitary and decent housing. The program is currently available to low income households through government rental subsidies. Housing program eligibility and the subsidies that are used as a form of rental assistance is based upon the applicant’s household size and income. Families will be placed into privately owned, yet affordable, apartments and homes.
ACCESS – This is the name of the New Hampshire Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) Program for the disabled. This particular resource offers emergency rental assistance to low-income non-elderly (younger than age 62) individuals with disabilities who are currently living in a nursing home or assisted living home.
Another New Hampshire disability program is known as The Mainstream Housing Choice Voucher Program. This will offer emergency rental assistance to low-income non-elderly (which means people younger than age 62) persons with disabilities and who can’t afford other housing, such as that nursing care.
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