Regional Housing Assistance Program (RHAP)
Offers intensive housing case management. Focus will be on housing and barriers leading to housing instability. No financial assistance available in this program.
Long-Term Assistance: Provides ongoing financial assistance for rent, similar to the Housing Choice Voucher program (Section 8) but offered just to people living with HIV/AIDS. Tenants pay either up to 30% of adjusted income or 10% of gross income for their rent, whichever is higher. NVFS pays the difference.
Short-Term Assistance: Provides financial services to individuals with unexpected emergencies or health related issues. Types of assistance provided: Rental assistance; mortgage assistance; utility assistance; security deposit; first month’s rent.
Clients must be unstably housed or facing housing instability.
Long-term assistance: Must be living with HIV or AIDS; must be low income; currently residing in Northern Virginia.
Short-term assistance: Clients must be living with HIV/AIDS; clients must live in, or be moving to, a jurisdiction within the Northern or Northwest region of Virginia. Includes City of Fredericksburg and the counties of Clarke, Fauquier, Stafford, and Warren; the origin of the emergency to request financial assistance must be unexpected or a crisis beyond the client’s control; household gross income must be within income guidelines; eligible to apply, on a monthly basis, for up to a total of 21 weeks of assistance with relevant reasons of need; completed application with explanation of emergency and any documents to support this emergency; proof clients have applied for and were unable to obtain assistance from other sources.
Short-Term Assistance: Worker or client can contact the staff contact person directly for intake and information.
Long-Term Tenant-Based Rental Assistance: There is a waitlist for this program maintained by The Northern Virginia Regional Commission. For more information on the waitlist, please contact NVRC at 703.642.0700 or email hivresources@novaregion.org.
Alexandria, Arlington, Fairfax, Falls Church, Loudoun, Prince William, Manassas, Manassas Park
10455 White Granite Dr., Suite 100
Oakton, VA 22124571.748.2500
10056 Dean Dr.
Manassas, VA 20110571.748.2600