Mixed-income housing: Do you qualify?

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Mixed-income housing:
Do you qualify?

The Seattle Housing Authority offers units at three mixed-income communities: High Point, NewHolly and Rainier Vista. Each offers several kinds of housing, including Low Income Public Housing units, market-rate rentals and affordable "tax credit" units.

The qualifications detailed below refer only to the Low Income Public Housing units at these three communities. If you are interested in other kinds of housing at at any of them, please see each development's Web site for requirements and application procedures:

Income limits

All Seattle Housing Authority housing programs have income limits. Applicants for the Low Income Public Housing units at NewHolly and Rainier Vista must earn 30 percent of area median income or less. Note that this is different than other Low Income Public Housing communities, where the income limit is 80 percent of area median income. This income limit is related to family size.

Effective date	Number in household	Income limit (30% of median)
02/13/08	1	$17,100
	2	$19,500
	3	$21,950
	4	$24,400
	5	$26,350
	6	$28,300
	7	$30,250
	8	$32,200

Note: For each person in excess of 8, add 8 percent of the 4-person limit to the 8-person limit, and then round to the nearest $50. This rule applies only to Low Income Public Housing units.

Immigration status

You do not need to be a United States citizen to apply for housing, but you do need to be a citizen or have eligible immigration status to receive housing. Your eligibility will be verified one year after you have leased a unit. You could lose all or part of your assistance if you do not have acceptable citizenship or immigration status at that time. For more information, see How immigration status affects assistance.

Reporting your assets

All SHA housing programs take your assets into account when calculating your income. Although the actual value of such assets is not included in the calculation of income, any income from such assets is included.

For example, if you have money in a savings account, that money will not be counted as part of your income. The interest earned from the money in that account, however, will be considered part of your annual income. Each housing program has its own specific policies about assets from income.

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