Rent Assistance
Christ's Community in College Hill
5819 Salvia Avenue
Cincinnati, Ohio 45224
513-541-0303
Hours: Monday - Thursday 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Eligibility: Services are accessible one time per month
Service Descritpion: Rent and utility assistauce funds are received one time per month and given out to those in need every month until the money is gone.
Cincinnati Metropolitan Housing Authority
16 West Central Parkway
Cincinnati, Ohio 45202
513-421-2642
Documentation required: Birth certificate, Picture ID, Proof of income, Social Security card
Hours: Monday - Friday 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Service: Rent payment assistance
Mercy Franciscan at St. John
1800 Logan Street
Cincinnati, Ohio 45202
513-981-5800
Appointment needed.
Documentation required: Eviction notice, Picture ID, Proof of Income, Proof of residence, Social Security Card
Hours: Monday - Friday 9:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Must meet the federal poverty guidelines and have dependent children.
Service: Provides the tristate area clients with temporary financial assistance in the form of rent payment or mortgage payment assistance after they have met the income guidelines.
Prince of Peace Lutheran Church
101 South Lebanon Road
Loveland, Ohio 45140
513-683-4244
Hours: Monday - Friday 10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Thursday 4:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Eligibility: Clients must live in the Loveland School district.
Santa Maria Community Services
718 State Avenue
Cincinnati, Ohio 45204
513-557-2710
Appointment needed.
Documentation Needed: Proof of Residence
Service: Mortgage payment assistance and rent payment assistance
St. Vincent de Pual - Crisis Services
1125 Bank Street
Cincinnati, Ohio 45214
513-421-0602 or 513-562-8841
Hours: Monday - Friday, 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Documentation needed: Picture ID, Proof of Income, Proof of residence.
Service: Provides rent payment assistance to eligible individuals in Hamilton County
To reach our West End Social Services Department, call (513) 421-0602 or email us at: info@svpdcincinnati.org
St. Vincent de Paul has recently established an office to serve the Winton HIlls area.
Winton Hills
4848 Wineste Avenue
Cincinnati, Ohio 45232
513-641-0382.
Guardian Angels SVDP
6531 Beechmont Avenue
Cincinnati, Ohio 45230
513-624-3147
Service: Financial assistance privided for those who qualify to assist in payment rent and utility bills, The agency or company billing the client is paid directly by Guardian Angels SVDP
Tenant Based Assistance Program
The Tenant Based Assistance (TBA) Program is a rental assistance program funded through a grant from the Department of Housing and Urban Development to the Hamilton County Community Development Department. The TBA program is exclusively targeted to persons or families who have physical or mental disabilities. The TBA waiting list is established through referrals from agencies which assist persons/families with disabilities. Families will be selected from the Waiting List and offered Tenant Based Assistance Grants.
Families receiving Tenant Based Assistance Grants will follow procedures and regulations similar to the Housing Voucher program. The areas in which families can look for units is limited to Hamilton County, excluding the City of Cincinnati, Amberley Village, Evendale, Indian Hill, Madeira, Mariemont, Milford, Newtown, Symmes Township, and Terrace Park. Grant holders must select a unit that is the same number of bedrooms or 1 bedroom smaller than their Grant size.
The calculations of the rental assistance subsidy is similar to the Section 8 Voucher program, in that the family pays the difference between the Contract Rent of the unit (which cannot be higher than 120% of the existing Fair Market Rent) and a subsidy computed by subtracting 30% of the family's monthly adjusted income from a Rent Standard (the Fair Market Rent). The family must pay a minimum of 10% of their monthly unadjusted income towards rent and utilities, as is also true for the Section 8 program.
The family is required to pay 30% of their monthly adjusted income towards a security deposit, with the balance of the security deposit (equal to 1 month's contract rent) to be paid by the Tenant Based Assistance Program. The entire security deposit will be refunded to the family, when the family moves, subject to the legal provisions for return of security deposits. The landlord and the family will be required to sign a Lease and Contract that are for a minimum of 1 year. The Lease and Contract are very similar to those used for the Section 8 Program.
Obligations of the tenant, family and landlord are spelled out in the Tenant Based Assistance Grant and in the Lease and Contract. The regulations of the program are much the same as the Section 8 Program.
For more information about the Hamilton County Tenant Based Assistance Program, please call (513) 946-8230, Monday - Friday, 7:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.