The Department of Housing (DOH) recently announced that on August 4, 2014 it would open the waiting lists for its Rental Assistance Program (RAP) and the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) Program. The lists had been closed since 2007, making their opening significant. According to the announcement, DOH is accepting applications from August 4 through the 18 and will choose, by lottery, 3,000 applications for the RAP waiting list and 5,000 applications for the Section 8 HCV Program waiting list.
RAP and the Section 8 HCV Program are Connecticut’s two main rent subsidy programs that help low-income families rent privately-owned housing. RAP is state funded and HCV is federally funded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
