MassNAHRO IS PURGING CENTRALIZED WAIT LIST

The Massachusetts Chapter of the National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials, MassNAHRO is conducting an update of the Section 8 Centralized Wait List. Anyone who applied prior to October 1, 2005 should have received a letter with a postcard that they must send back in order to remain on the list. The postcard must be postmarked by February 6, 2006.

Applicants who did not receive a mailing can download a form to submit at http://massnahro.org/2006%20update%20mailer%20for%20web%20site3.pdf, and attached. Applicants may also submit a written request to remain on the waiting list. This request must include their current address and social security number.

Please alert any clients who sent in an application to MassNAHRO's Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher centralized waiting list about the need to respond to this mailing to ensure that they remain on the wait list.

For more information, please visit the MassNAHRO website http://massnahro.org/2006_update.htm.

The Centralized Section 8 Waiting List that is used by 58 local housing authorities in Massachusetts. See attached list.

-Adapted from Mass. Coalition for the Homeless e-mail alert, “Purging of MassNAHRO’s Centralized Wait List”, 1/12/06

01/2006