Federal & State Subsidized Housing Programs

Our federal and state subsidized housing program materials are prepared primarily for legal services attorneys or other advocates who are assisting client currently living in, or planning to apply for, housing that is assisted by a federal or state housing subsidy program.  These programs and their rules are very complex, so we have prepared some tools for you to identify the type of housing program involved and the rules that apply.

“Identifying the Assisted Housing and the Applicable Laws and Regulations in Your Service Area” will give you a more detailed resource for identifying the particular housing program you client may be involved with and includes specific information and links to the regulations, guidebooks and other resources that apply.  It covers not only HUD programs but Rural Housing (USDA), Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) and some state-assisted housing programs (Mitchell-Lama).

In addition, our “Online Database of HUD Multi-Family Housing in NYS”  provides an Excel database taken from data downloaded from HUD’s national database but which we have reformatted to make it easier to use by listing housing developments by county and by revising the headings and format to help you understand the information more readily.  One feature that might be especially useful is that the Excel database includes a separate worksheet with links to specific HUD regulations and materials. You should refer back to this worksheet once you have identified the housing development in question from the “Housing by County” worksheet.  (Although this database is primarily for HUD programs, we have also included individual links to detailed NYS Mitchell-Lama housing development financing information on a separate worksheet).