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The Elderly Housing program is a federal program that provides decent and safe, rental housing assistance for eligible elderly and people with disabilities.

Elderly housing units are owned and managed by York Housing Authority. Some of the units are grouped in a single community, others are found distributed throughout York County that can be houses or apartment buildings that have been remodeled by the authority. Elderly Housing residents pay 30% of their adjusted gross income for rent and basic utilities.

YHA manages approxamately 500 elderly rental housing units in York City and York County. Residents are selected as the come to the top of the waiting list and have satisfied various eligibility criteria which include: income eligibility, rental history, criminal history, and financial responsibility.

Who is eligible?

In order to have an applicant placed on our family housing wait list the following conditions need to be met:

Applicants must:

• Qualify as a “family” (HUD’s definition of a family is: “Two or more person who will live together regularly in the dwelling unit, with a head of household at least eighteen (18) years old, who: (a) are related by blood, marriage, adoption, legal guardianship or operation of law; (b) are not so related but have clearly and convincingly demonstrated a stable relationship in prior housing; or (c) consist of an elderly person or an individual with disabilities, and a live-in aide.
• Have an income within the income limits determined by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
• Have each member of the family is a citizen, national, or non-citizen who has eligible immigration status.
• Provide documentation of Social Security numbers for all family members 2 years of age and older (or certifies that they do not have one)
• MUST NOT be a registered sex offender.
• Must not owe any monies to the York Housing Authority
• Maximum family income ranges change on a yearly basis, as determined by HUD

If you are wait list eligible, the York Housing Authority will complete a series of verifications based on your application to be sure that you meet all program eligibility requirement. York Housing Authority can and will deny admission to any applicant whose habits and practices may be expected to have a detrimental effect on other tenants, on the community’s environment, or who have provided false information on their application or during the eligibility verification process.

These income limits are established by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and will be revised when the changes in income limits are published by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.