Cities Affected:
| Cannon City Comus Dundas Epsom FaribaultNerstrand Northfield Prairieville Ruskin Shieldsville |
Hazelwood Little Chicago Lonsdale Millersburg MorristownTrondjem VeseliWarsaw Webster Wheatland |
Rice County, MN
The waiting list is now open as of Jan 3, 2011
Facts:
– The county help about 305 families a month with an average of $420 per voucher
– The Housing Authority will occasionally send out mailers to all the respondents and if you don’t reply, you get removed from the list
– Many people get deleted because they don’t pass the background check
– Waiting list size averages about 400
– Priority will go to the extremely low income families meaning a family of four income cannot exceed $20,900
– For the other applicants, 25 percent of family income cannot exceed 50 percent of the area median income, or around $34,850
– To keep it’s funding the housing authority has to spend nearly $1.7 million of it’s budget this year
– Learn how to use this information to help you get a section 8 housing voucher
