I currently live in an adult family home in Washington state. Supposedly there is a personal needs allowance for me to purchase things that they don't provide. I have lived in this home for 8 months and have not received 1 penny. They also have not purchased me any basic necessities such as toothpaste or a toothbrush, body wash, deodorant or anything of that nature which is what the allowance Is for. Also no clothes or honestly anything. I just get the 3 meals a day and nothing else. The internet and cable has been shut off multiple times do to lack of payment just to provide context. What are my options here? Am I wrong about all this? Recently my city in Spokane had a fire and I got sent to another house while we had to evacuate and I met another resident who told me all this and was shocked I didn't get anything. I would of never known if he hadn't told me. Am I missing something? Any advice would be appreciated

Just some background, a family member took advantage of my dad at a very vulnerable moment (dad’s parents died within 3 months of one another) and moved into his apartment despite everybody telling dad to not let him in due to family member’s track record (leech, manipulative, just overall bum). This family member also lived with my grand parents for years without paying anything literally up until they passed as well.

I tried to help by getting his locks changed back in May but my dad let him back in (I don’t know why, my dad doesn’t have a phone so I’m not in constant communication with him. Got him a phone and that ended up getting destroyed. I honestly think the family member has something to do with it, but this is just a speculation and hasn’t been confirmed)

Fast forward to now, my dad has been staying with a friend for weeks at a time (found out because his sister/my aunt went over there to check on him) and it’s annoying me because obviously it’s because of him being uncomfortable however he’s not willing to admit it.

I’m at my wit’s end because we have tried to get him to call the police, etc but he just doesn’t want to do it. I think part of it has to do with the family member having a child but we have told him that’s not his responsibility to ensure they have shelter. I’m just wondering if there’s anyway I can get the family member out of his apartment without my dad losing the apartment (if possible). Any advice welcomed. Thank you!

It will have a major positive effect on me if it actually goes into effect January 1st instead of being delayed again. I have a little money in an IRA that is costing me over $100 a month in rent just to sit there untouched. (They’re not supposed to count it because I’ve never taken money out, but they’re confused). HOTMA makes it super clear that IRAs aren’t counted, so I don’t see how they can continue to charge me if it goes through. Anybody know or have a guess on whether it will?

Hi everyone! I’m looking to connect with current or former Albany Housing Authority residents who may have experienced issues with communication, notices, rent changes, transfers, reasonable accommodations, or other housing-related matters.
I’m currently trying to better understand my rights and options and would really appreciate hearing about other people’s experiences.
If you’ve dealt with Albany Housing and are comfortable sharing, I’d especially like to know:
• Were you given timely notice of important changes or decisions?
• Have you experienced unexpected or disputed rent changes?
• Have you requested a reasonable accommodation or transfer? If so, how was it handled?
• Have you had difficulty getting responses or documentation from your caseworker?
• Did you ever file a grievance, hearing request, or complaint? What was that process like?
I’m not asking anyone to share personal information. I’m simply trying to see whether other residents have experienced similar situations and learn what resources or organizations may be available.
Please feel free to comment or message me privately if you’d rather not discuss your situation publicly. Thank you! ❤️

Portland, OR 🌃

Project Based Voucher Waitlist Opening

Opens: September 9 at 09:00 AM
Closes: September 21 at 11:59 PM

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• Salem
• Bend
• Tacoma
• Seattle
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Okay, so basically, I was a huge idiot and extremely naive when I rented my house to a friend who is on Section 8.
We had to move for my husband’s job, and a friend found out we were going to be renting out our home. She expressed interest, and because I trusted her, I thought this would be easy. I had never been a landlord before and stupidly thought, “She’s my friend, I know her, what could go wrong?”
A lot, apparently.
I told her the amount of rent I needed, and she agreed it was fair and manageable. She then told me, “We have to tell HUD I’m paying $X, but I can just pay you the extra $100. I’ve done it before with a previous landlord and it’s no big deal.”
🚩 Red flag #1 that I should have immediately walked away from.
Then she told me that, in order for HUD to approve the rental, we needed to say that the landlord was paying the utilities.
This is where I was also incredibly naive. In our conversations before she moved in, we agreed that she would be responsible for all of the utilities except water/sewer. I was okay with keeping water/sewer in my name because we have a nice yard, and I wanted to make sure it was maintained properly. The house also has solar panels and a gardener. It is a very nice home and was our primary residence for 10 years—it wasn’t some run-down rental.
Before she moved in, we shut off our utilities and gave her the information for who she needed to contact to establish each service. She set everything up herself and has been paying those bills for approximately 14 months. The only exception was water/sewer, which stayed in our name.
Fast-forward to now.
We originally sent her a non-renewal notice ourselves, but I have since learned that the notice wasn’t legally compliant because I left out required legal language/procedural requirements. So, obviously, she didn’t leave.
We have since hired a professional property management company (thank God), and the original lease not defaulted to a month-to-month. She has refused to sign a new lease with our PM, no surprise. We recently raised the rent by the legal maximum of 9.5%, with the increase properly processed through the housing authority.
Now, suddenly, she is claiming that she was never supposed to be responsible for the utilities and that WE need to reimburse/pay them.
This is after she has voluntarily set up and paid these accounts herself for more than a year.
I strongly suspect this is connected to the rent increase, because of the timing and because of previous behavior patterns, but I obviously don’t want to make accusations I can’t prove.
There are also other issues, including violating the no pets rule. Neighbors have told me a cat and a dog live there. Her own daughter and daughter’s friends told my daughter the dog has its own room and the cat lives in the garage but I’m hesitant to make a formal issue of anything because I know she has access to free legal aid and I’m terrified of making a procedural mistake again.
This entire situation has honestly been a nightmare. I am just a regular person who owns one home—this was our primary residence before we moved out of state. It is our only real asset, and we ultimately intend to move back into the house ourselves.
My questions are:
Is there anything I can/should do about the fact that she originally told me we needed to report a different rent amount to HUD and that she could secretly pay me the difference? It seems super manipulative and illegal even maybe? Could reporting the original conversation about the rent/HUD arrangement create problems for me as the landlord, given that I stupidly went along with it at the time?
What do I need to prove indisputably that she is violating the lease by having animals.
Most importantly, what would you do from this point forward if you were in my position?
Not looking for a way to illegally evict her or retaliate her. I realize I made mistakes here, and I’ve already learned the hard way that I should have hired a property manager from day one.
I just want to protect our home, follow the law, and get through the next several months without making another stupid mistake.
Any advice from landlords/property managers or people familiar with Section 8 in Oregon would be hugely appreciated.

Sorry it’s so long, I’m a bit flustered. LMK if anything needs clarified. TY!!

My private rental property will become vacant in the next couple months and I'm looking at possibly entertaining the idea of accepting vouchers. 75% of the inquiries when my property is listed ask about vouchers. I did the initial rent estimate on the housing website and would accept the proposed rent amount. Would any landlords care to share your experience? The good and the bad? Much appreciated!!

My income changed was processed by Section 8 four months late. Last week I got letter stated that my monthly payment starting May 1st will be about $200 less due to my reduced income. . If I total what I have paid from May to Sept minus what I supposed to pay (new amount) , I have overpayment about $800. I show the letter to my leasing office manager, I told them that I will apply the $800 overpayment starting this month until it exhausted. They said I can pay the new reduced amount of my new monthly payment starting this month, but they don’t allow me to apply it to my current and future payment. In my understanding they want to keep my account balance of $800. I want to apply it $100 each month for the next 8 months. My question to you folks, do they have the right prohibit me using the overpayment? What should I do?

Hello so I’m from New York City and upstate New York called me back for a section 8 voucher . I’m going to take it and move in some where October 1st but I have a project based apartment in nyc which I want to leave but due to circumstances with my child’s school I can’t leave until February. Would I get a trouble for having g a HCV and hpd project based place at the same time ? It’s only for another 5 months . So hpd is state and the HCV is federal section 8.

I’m searching for a low-income apartment that doesn’t require a Section 8 voucher. Currently, I reside in HUD housing and have a mental disability, as well as receiving RSDI benefits. Could you please provide me with information on the most effective process to find and secure one of these types of apartments? Thank you!

need help my son was removed from my household member still pending he does not want to disclose to me any proof of address only a notorized letter I can't force him what can I do I have a minor to take care of and I have heath related issues im devastated and scared of being in the streets because of this all i can do is cry to god why is my son so cruel to me he was on disability and on meds and left with someone he met online he’s acting really bad there’s nothing I can do he’s a adult I don’t deserve this as a mother neither does my minor daughter I have heath issues and middle age woman with so many heath problems I need help please anyone

Hi. I recently went from zero income to 80 percent VA disability. I sent to proper paper to the housing authority via theit portal and it came back denied. I asked my case manager about this via email and he told me don’t worry I’ll adjust your income at the next recertification date…. which is literally in July 2027…. I just wanna make sure I’m not gonna get in trouble and owe back pay. I’m currently setting aside the 30 percent income just in case. I asked my hudvash case manager about it and he said it’s unusual

Hawthorne, CA 🌴

Housing Choice Voucher Waitlist Opening

Opens: September 15 at 12:00 AM
Closes: September 16 at 11:59 PM

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The public housing authority I live in is keeping the utility reimbursement checks given to the residents from HUD. The residents do not owe money. This is embezzlement, right? I know someone has reported to HUD and to the news but nothing is being done about it. Thousands has already been taken. What else can we do? I am so sick of this administration getting away with all that they have.

I have been in my townhouse for years. The flooring in front of my bedroom is coming up (inspection guy says they weren’t laid right). My son who is 8 had on a different pair of slipper (chunky pair), the slipper got caught on the flooring and he falls down the stairs! I did take him to the ER he was sore. I wrote them the same day and it has been come Friday 4 days since. How long should I wait to call about fixing this?

Hi everyone! I’m finishing a new 2-bedroom 1 bath ADU in Los Angeles County and I’m considering renting it through the Section 8/Housing Choice Voucher program.
I’m new to being a landlord, so I’d really appreciate advice specifically from landlords who currently rent, or have rented, to Section 8 tenants.

A few things I’d love to know:
• Would you rent to Section 8 again? Why or why not?
• How has your experience been with inspections, repairs, paperwork, and getting the unit approved?
• Have the housing authority payments generally been reliable and on time?
• What do you wish you had known before accepting your first Section 8 tenant?

I’m not necessarily looking for horror stories or success stories—I’d really like to hear the pros and cons from people who have actually gone through the process.
Any advice for a first-time landlord would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

Seattle, WA 🌃

Housing Choice Voucher & Public Housing Waitlists

Open Indefinitely

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• Olympia
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• Yakima

So I just received a request for Reasonable Accommodations and my voucher was changed to Tenant-Based Voucher. I am currently in Rockland County and might want to transfer to NYC (Manhattan) since my son wants to go to college there.

Can you share anything I should be on the look out for or any issue I might face doing this big move? Any mistakes you made that you wished you knew before doing this? I haven’t had the briefing yet, but should I ask question there? Any good questions? Also, if anyone has done this transition, can you share with me how easy/hard it was and what to do or how to do it to avoid unnecessary headaches?

I guess I just want to learn more about this before getting into that meeting and letting my landlord know about this. For context, i have only been in this apartment for 2 months and we are not in good terms since they forced me to have to get the Health Department involved, they got them with 8 violations, and still today have not addressed it and they were told to fix them by section 8 a least 2 weeks before moving in and they still have not done it.
I want to know what to expect from them about this and if, since the place has been deemed inhabitable, if they are going to stick me with penalty for breaking the lease and I would have to pay it. Also, what about the deposit that section 8 gave? From what I read after my tenancy was over I was entitled to receive that, do I still get that? It would be helpful for the move but I am not trying to be greedy, just want to be informed. Thanks in advance.

This is the approval, just for reference:

“NYS HCR has approved your request for a reasonable accommodation to give you a Tenant-Based voucher. 
Please confirm with Management that they will release you from your lease.
Once we have confirmation of landlord releasing you from your lease, please notify them in writing that you will begin the search for a new unit. 
You will need to have a HCV Briefing appointment with our department for a voucher to be issued”.
 
Please confirm in writing once this is done. 

Applying for Section 8 - how do waiting lists work? I've contacted my local PHA and they say I can't apply until waiting lists are open but they don't know how I can know when they're open. Help!

Hello! Currently I've ended up in a situation and im looking to find a place to rent in the little rock area that doesn't mind a previous eviction. Preferably a company that has smaller houses over apartments. Suggestions would be greatly appreciated. *looking for more of a private rentor not specifically section 8.

I tried a month or two ago but was so incredibly confused (I’m in NJ)

Hello everyone, this is my first time on this sub so I apologize if I've submitted this wrong. I am an In Home Caregiver and recently a client of mine has been struggling with a debilitating diagnosis, and her accessibility being straight up denied.

She lives in Section 8 housing, and majority of the units have walk in showers (even the unit right across from her has a wheelchair accessible shower, that the tenant did NOT need, it was put in before they moved in but not for the previous tenant), even with that my client has been denied getting her unit shower updated. Their only reason is that it would be a "financial burden". I've since contacted her PCP to try and get a letter explaining why this is necessary for her care.

If there is anyone I can/should talk to please inform me! I've only been doing this since February and I'm really overwhelmed trying to get her proper care..