HOPWA (TBRA) WAITLIST APPLICATION - Posted (01-13-2020)

HOPWA TENANT BASED RENTAL ASSISTANCE (TBRA) WAITLIST APPLICATION PACKAGES WILL BE AVAILABLE FEBRUARY 10-21, 2020

CLIENT MEDICAL VERIFICATION FORM AVAILABLE STARTING JANUARY 15, 2020 

Download the TBRA Housing Assistance Waitlist Application Package/ Client Medical Verification Form from www.aidsnet.org 

The City of Miami HOPWA Program has a limited number of openings in its Tenant Based Rental Assistance (TBRA) Program and is seeking to fill these openings through a waitlist. Applicants will be placed on the Waitlist by random lottery. If you have been diagnosed with AIDS and are low income (80% AMI or below), you may be eligible for placement on the HOPWA TBRA Waitlist.

The HOPWA Housing Programs provide subsidized housing to low income persons/households, as defined each year by the federal U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD), with an AIDS diagnosis. The goal of the HOPWA Program is to assist program participants living with AIDS in achieving and maintaining housing stability so as to avoid homelessness and improve their access to, and engagement in, AIDS treatment and care.

You and your family are eligible if: (1) you have received an AIDS medical diagnosis AND (2) you are low income.

 You may apply as an individual or as a family. A family is a household composed of two (2) or more related persons with at least one person diagnosed with AIDS. Persons in a family may be related by ties of blood, marriage, or other legal sanctions or deemed to be important to the care or well-being of the household member with AIDS.

 The “Application Package” to be submitted is made up of TWO forms. You must (1) fill out and sign a HOPWA TBRA Program Waitlist Application Form and (2) have your physician fill out and sign the Medical Verification Form. You must then submit BOTH forms postmarked by Friday, February 21^st, to the mailing address provided below:

Apple Tree Perspectives, Inc.,

P.O. Box 381665, Miami, Florida 33238

 The TBRA Application Packages can be picked up starting February 10, 2020 from: Miami-Dade County Public Library System’s Main Library at 101 West Flagler Street, Miami, FL 33130 or the City of Miami Department of Housing and Community Development office at 14 NE 1^st Ave., 2nd Floor, Miami, FL 33132; alternatively you can download it from www.aidsnet.org

 A random lottery process will be utilized to select applicants for placement on the Waitlist. Only those Application Packages postmarked by the February 21^st, 2020 deadline will be placed into the lottery pool for the random drawing. Once placed on the Waitlist, the applicant’s AIDS diagnosis and household income will be independently verified when the applicant’s waitlist number comes to the top of the Waitlist. For more information, applicants should contact 305-416-1927.                                                                                                                                          (Ad #31548)