Regional Housing Initiative (RHI)

The information below pertains to DHA only.

The Regional Housing Initiative (RHI) is a collaborating group comprised of several housing agencies and partners united to support affordable and mixed-income housing developments in "opportunity areas". Each PHA submits their Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) wait list to RHI. As units become available in the region, applicants on the wait lists are contacted by RHI to determine their eligibility to live in the available subsidized unit within the region. If eligible, this allows the applicant to live in a subsidized unit while they wait for their HCV application at their "home" housing authority to reach the top of the wait list and be called in to receive a voucher. With many applicants waiting years for that application to move to the top, the RHI subsidized unit provides the same level of assistance their voucher provides - but much sooner. That works out to thousands of dollars in savings they normally would have spent towards market rent in their unsubsidized unit.