WHAT IS PUBLIC HOUSING? DO YOU QUALIFY?

• Public housing was established to provide decent and safe rental housing for eligible families, the elderly and persons with disabilities. The U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) administers Federal aid to local housing agencies that manage the housing for residents at rents they can afford. MHA public housing comes in various sizes and apartments are located all over the city of Meridian. MHA is an income based entity that HUD furnishes technical and professional assistance in planning, developing and managing these developments.
• Public housing is limited to income qualified families and individuals. MHA determines your eligibility based on: whether you qualify as elderly, a near elderly person, a person with a disability, or as a family, which could mean two or more persons related by blood, marriage, or by operation of law, a displaced family, a single person who is not an elderly or displaced person, or a person with disabilities, or the remaining member of a tenant family, a displaced family, a disabled family, the remaining member of a tenant family
• U. S. citizenship
• The applicant's Total Annual Family Income as defined by HUD
• Head of household must be 21 years of age or older or 18 years old and married (not common law) or a person that has been relieved of the disability of non-age by court actions (sometimes referred to as Majority papers).