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HOUSING ASSISTANCE

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Our Program Offers

  • Rent assistance with the goal of keeping you in your home
  • Eviction prevention assistance
  • Referrals to other community housing opportunities
  • Access to energy assistance, food assistance through the Howard County Food Bank and early childhood education through Head Start and Prekindergarten programming

For Housing Assistance Applicants:

Effective 9/9/2022, CAC in coordination with the Howard County Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) has stopped accepting applications for rental assistance pending the processing of the current surge of applications received. All existing applications for rental assistance will continue to be processed subject to funding availability. Clients with open or in-progress applications submitted before Friday, Sept. 9th, should monitor their emails and voicemails for status updates.

Assistance may still be available to applicants facing imminent eviction who have a signed and dated court-ordered eviction notice. If you have an official court-ordered eviction notice, please contact CAC directly at 410-313-6440 for next steps in the process. Please note: You will be required to provide a copy of the signed court-ordered eviction notice for a new case to be created.

CAC will continue coordinating with DHCD to monitor funding availability and will update our website with new information as it becomes available.

 

Effective 7/26/2023, CAC in coordination with the Howard County Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) has stopped accepting all applications for rental assistance and first month’s rent, pending the processing of the current surge of applications received. All existing applications for rental and first month’s rent assistance will continue to be processed in order received, subject to funding availability. Clients with open or in-progress applications submitted before Wednesday 7/26/23, should monitor their emails and voicemails for status updates.

CAC will continue coordinating with DHCD to monitor funding availability and will update our website with new information as it becomes available. Please check back here regularly for updates.

 

Due to very limited funds, new eviction-prevention assistance cases will only be opened when all of the following requirements are met. At this time, we have paused taking applications for first month’s rent.

  1. You have received a document from the court starting the eviction process.
  2. You do NOT owe more than $2000 of back-rent.
  3. You are NOT more than 2 months behind in rent.
  4. All of the following documentation has been physically delivered to our office at 9820 Patuxent Woods Drive, Columbia, MD 21046. Emailed documents or partially completed packets will not be accepted or processed.
    1. Completed CAC Universal Application (download here or pick up at our office)
    2. Completed CAC Supplemental Housing Packet (download here or pick up at our office)
    3. A copy of your court judgement and/or eviction document
    4. Copies of documents that show Proof of Income for the past 30 days of anyone, 18 years or older,  living in your home.

NOTE: A new case will be created ONLY after all of these documents are received and verified by CAC, additional requests for information and documents will follow to confirm your eligibility.