Public Notice of RHSP Wait Lists Opening 6-15-2020

Date Posted: 06/01/2020

Category: Public Notice DHA

Waiting List Opening for the State of Illinois Rental Housing Support Program (RHSP)

This is an announcement to inform you that the RHSP Wait List for DuPage County is opening, as well as the RHSP Wait List for Kendall and Grundy Counties.

A combination of low wages and limited availability of affordable rental housing units requires many families and households throughout the State of Illinois to pay a disproportionate share of their income for basic housing. There are also households in the state that face additional difficulty in finding affordable housing due to disabilities or special needs of family members.

To address this pressing need, in 2005 the state enacted the Rental Housing Support Program. The RHSP promotes permanent housing by funding rent subsidies for rent burdened extremely- and severely-low-income households.

We are pleased to announce the opening of the RHSP Waiting List for DuPage County operated through DuPage Housing Authority (DHA) and the RHSP Waiting List for Kendall and Grundy Counties operated through the Kendall Housing Authority (KHA). Please see the ENTIRE ANNOUNCEMENT posted on our website www.dupagehousing.org for each housing authority KHA and DHA as the number of pre-applications to be accepted varies for each housing authority for each unit bedroom size. Unit bedroom sizes range from 1-bedroom units up to 5-bedroom units.

The RHSP DHA and RHSP KHA Waiting Lists will OPEN on 06/15/2020 at 10:00 a.m. CST
Applications may only be completed and submitted after the Wait List opens.
The Waiting List will CLOSE on 06/16/2020 at 4 pm or when the allotted amount of applications have been successfully submitted, whichever comes first.
Visit www.dupagehousing.org for more information on RHSP and the Waiting List pre-application process
Persons with disabilities that need a Reasonable Accommodation for a hard- copy pre-application should contact the RHSP Program Coordinator no later than Tuesday, June 9, 2020 at RHSP@dupagehousing.org.

REASONABLE ACCOMMODATION

Pre-applications will NOT be provided or accepted at the Housing Authority office unless you have been pre-approved for a Reasonable Accommodation because of a disability or related condition that prevents you from equal access to the online pre- application process. Your accommodation request must be written and must describe the reason why the online pre-application process prevents you from accessing the pre- application. The written request must be RECEIVED BY TUESDAY, JUNE 9, 2020 BY 4:30 p.m. CST by:

Mailing to: RHSP Program Coordinator, DuPage Housing Authority, 711 E. Roosevelt Rd., Wheaton, IL 60187.
Faxing to: Attention: RHSP, Program Coordinator (630) 690-0702; or
Emailing to: rhsp@dupagehousing.org.

If the request is approved, you will be notified, and arrangements will be discussed on how to receive it.

PLEASE NOTE: YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO SUBMIT THE COMPLETED PAPER COPY PRE- APPLICATION BEFORE 10:00 A.M. CST ON MONDAY, JUNE 15, 2020 WHEN THE WAIT LIST OFFICIALLY OPENS!

All pre-applications will be date and time stamped. If a paper copy of the pre-application is submitted before 10:00 A.M. CST it will be considered rejected due to the wait list not being open at the time of receipt of the pre-application!

Please Note: The RHSP Wait Lists are NOT affiliated with the Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) Program

RHSP enables Program participants to pay a portion of the rent based on the IHDA Tenant Contribution Schedule, while giving the landlord the difference in the form of a subsidy. The difference between this subsidy and HCV (Section 8) is that this subsidy is based on the unit - it is project-based, not tenant-based. That means that when one family vacates the unit, another low-income family moving into the unit would receive the same benefits.