Public Housing Agency

Eligibility

During open registration, applicants are screened at an interview and are required to provide documentation that will be used to determine eligibility.

Public Housing is limited to low-income families and individuals. Some of the factors used in determining an applicant's eligibility include:

1. annual gross income (low income is considered 80% of the median income for Miami-Dade County.
2. whether you qualify as elderly, a person with a disability, or as a family; and
3. immigration status: applicants must either be U.S. citizens or have eligible immigration status.
   

Additionally, in Miami-Dade County:

• at least 40% of new admissions must be extremely low-income (30% of area median income or below);
• the remaining 60% of new admissions can be up to the low-income level (80% of the area median income).