The Multi-Family Project Based Rental Assistance Housing was created by Congress in 1974 and developed by The Housing and Urban Development to provide tenant subsidies for eligible tenant families, the elderly, and persons with disabilities.
Section 8 rental subsidies are provided to project owners on behalf of families that are eligible low-income families at the time of their admission by the project owners to the program. Under the Housing Act, "low income families" are defined as those families whose annual incomes do not exceed eighty percent (80%) of the median income for the area in which the project is located, adjusted for family size, as determined by HUD at least annually. Pursuant to the Housing Act, not more than 25% of the units in an assisted mortgaged property may be made available for occupancy by low income families other than "very low income families" (as herein defined); except with respect to any project in which such low income families occupied more than 25% of the units in the affected project as of November 28, 1990. In addition, the applicable HUD regulations prohibit, without prior HUD, approval, the admission of any low-income family other than a very low-income family to any project subject to a HAP Contract in effect on or after October 1, 1981. A "very low income family" is defined as a family whose annual income is at or below 50% of the median income of the area in which the project is located, adjusted for family size.
Auburn Housing Authority has 285 Units of Projected Based Rental Assistance Housing across three developments.
20 Great Falls Plaza, Auburn, ME 04210
This is an elderly development which was built under the Section 8 New Construction program in 1977. Its Housing Assistance Payments Contract has been renewed through 2030. This was financed by Maine State Housing Authority. We purchased the property on December 1991, and moved our main office here in 1999.
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143 Mill Street, Auburn, ME 04210
Completed in 1979, this is a 111 unit Section 8 Substantial Rehab development, one of the largest of its type in Maine. It is for the elderly, and has handicapped accessible units. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
256 Main Street, Auburn, ME 04210
Roak Block - 156 Main Street, Auburn – This is an elderly development acquired by Auburn Housing Authority in 2010 and has 74 - 1 bedroom units with handicapped accessible units. Completed in 1981 as a substantial rehab development, it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.