Residents hoping to win a coveted voucher for affordable housing struggled to file applications, as the PHA’s website briefly crashed Monday amid strong demand for a program that reopened for the first time in more than a decade.
Residents hoping to win a coveted voucher for affordable housing struggled to file applications, as the Philadelphia Housing Authority’s website briefly crashed Monday amid strong demand for a program that reopened for the first time in more than a decade.
“Due to the overwhelming demand in the Housing Choice Waiting List application, PHA’s website experienced exceedingly high traffic that resulted in some technical issues that has since been fixed,” PHA said in the statement.“It is not necessary to be among the first to apply because whether you’re among first or last will not change your chances, since applicants will be selected by lottery,” PHA said.
“We have far more households that qualify for subsidized housing. Ten thousand is nothing,” she said. “Most will never get onto a wait list that takes a decade to go through.”announced the new lottery system
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