Pilgrim Rest Senior Apartments Waiting List

The Reno Housing Authority (RHA) Senior Section 8 wait list for apartments at Pilgrim Rest Senior Apartments is currently open. Applications were last accepted from June 7, 2021 until June 18, 2021. There is no notice of when this waiting list will reopen.

Please note: It is not known if these are Section 8 Project-Based Voucher (PBV), or Section 8 Project-Based Rental Assistance (PBRA) units.

To apply during the opening period, applicants were required to complete the online application.

This waiting list had the following preferences:

• HUD disposition of a multifamily project.– 400 Points
• Non-subsidized: Applicants who are not currently receiving any form of subsidized housing will be
  given preference. – 200 Points
• Residency: priority will be given to applicants who: - 125 Points
  • Currently reside in Washoe County, or
  • Currently work or have recently been hired to work at a job located in Washoe County, or
  • Have graduated from or are currently enrolled in an education or training program that is
    located in Washoe County and is designed to prepare them for the job market (within the
    last six months).
• Lease in Place: Applicants who currently live in Washoe County and whose landlords are willing to
  accept the Housing Choice Voucher and provide verification, will be given preference. – 200 Points
• One- person elderly or disabled household must be given a preference over single person applicants.
  Households with more than one person also receive preference, including applicants with unborn
  children. – 100 Points
• Applicants who have been involuntarily displaced as a result of a disaster, such as fire, flood, and
  earthquake, within six months from application date. An applicant who qualifies for this preference
  must provide a police/fire report, letter from a government agency, or a written statement from their
  social worker, etc. forcing the action. – 90 Points
• Applicants who have been involuntarily displaced or will be displaced (within no more than six months from date of certification or verification) as a result of federal, state, local government or Housing Authority action related to code enforcement, public improvement, and purchase and/or disposition of dwelling units. An applicant who qualifies for this preference must provide a police/fire report, letter from a government agency, or a written statement from their social worker, etc. forcing the action. – 70 Points
• Displacement: Other – 10 Points
  • Action by a housing owner that results in the need to vacate beyond the applicant’s ability to control and which occurs despite the applicant’s having met all previous conditions of occupancy (other than a rent increase)
  • Actual or threatened physical violence directed against the applicant or one or more members of the applicant's household by a spouse or other member of the applicant's household.
  • Reprisals where members provide information on criminal activities to law enforcement and, based on threat assessment, a law enforcement agency recommends re-housing the household to avoid or reduce risk of violence against the household.
  • Hate crimes where one or more members of the household have been the victim of hate crimes and have vacated a unit because of such crime, or the fear associated with such crime has destroyed the applicant's peaceful enjoyment of the unit.
• Substandard housing:
  • Homeless, defined as: - 10 Points
    • A household lacking a fixed, regular and adequate nighttime residence, or
    • Primary nighttime residence is a public or privately operated shelter designed
      to provide temporary living accommodations (including welfare hotels,
      congregate shelters, and transitional housing), or
    • Primary nighttime residence is an institution that provides a temporary
      residence for individuals intended to be institutionalized, or
    • Primary nighttime residence is a public or private place not designed for, or
      ordinarily used as, a regular sleeping accommodation for human beings.
      An applicant who qualifies for this preference must provide documentation
      such as a notice from the health department, landlord verification, a letter from
      a social service agency, fire department or utility provider, and/or letter or
      receipts from shelter.
  • Dilapidated housing, housing that does not provide safe and adequate shelter, and in its
    present condition endangers the health, safety, or wellbeing of a household, one or more
    critical defects, or has a combination of intermediate defects in sufficient number or
    extent to require considerable repair or rebuilding. The defects may involve original
    construction, or may result from continued neglect/ repair or from serious damage to the
    structure. – 10 Points
    • Inoperable indoor plumbing
    • No usable toilet or bath inside the unit
    • Inadequate safe electrical service
    • Inadequate safe source of heat
    • Should, but does not have a kitchen
    • Has been declared unfit for habitation by an agency or unit of the government
  • Inaccessibility of unit. Where a member of the household has a mobility or other
    impairment that makes the person unable to use critical elements of the unit; and the
    owner is not legally obligated to make the changes to the unit that would make critical
    elements accessible to the disabled person as a reasonable accommodation.
    • An applicant who qualifies for this preference must provide the necessary
      verification(s) which include, but is not limited to: official document from city, state
      or other government body, an eviction notice, police or fire report, letter from a
      social worker.
• Graduate of Permanent Supportive Housing: Applicants who provide documentation showing successful completion of a Permanent Supportive Housing Program in Washoe County within the last 6 months will be given preference. – 10 Points
• Veterans Status: Applicants who qualify for any of the preferences listed in this section must provide verification such as a DD214, VA patient card, or statement from the VA showing disability, and death certificate, if applicable, or military identification and proof of relationship to the veteran. Within each of the above preferences, priority will be given to:
  • Applicants who are disabled veterans whose disability has been determined by the Veterans Administration to be service connected. – 4 Points
  • Applicant families of deceased veterans whose death has been determined by the Veterans Administration to be service connected. – 3 Points
  • Applicant families of deceased veterans whose death is non-service connected. – 2 Points
  • Applicants who are a current servicemen or a veteran discharged for any reason other than dishonorable. – 1 Point

Selected applicants were placed on the waiting list by date and time the application is received, weighed by order of preferences.

For more information, visit the RHA website.

Sources: This information was verified by the RHA on June 16, 2021.

Service Area

This waiting list is for rental assistance in Washoe County, Nevada.