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Missoula Housing Authority ends large wait list, posts weekly vacancies and prepares rehabilitation of Wildflower Apartments
Summary
In a public-access interview, Missoula Housing Authority Executive Director Sam Oliver said the agency discontinued a nearly 3,800-household centralized wait list in favor of weekly published vacancies, aims to deploy online applications within a year, will rehab 96 Wildflower Apartments using low-income housing tax credits, and highlighted Family Self-Sufficiency program gains.
Missoula — The Missoula Housing Authority has scrapped a long-running centralized wait list and now publishes weekly vacancy boards for its rent-restricted apartments, Executive Director Sam Oliver said in an interview on Missoula Community Access Television.
"We discontinued that wait list," Oliver said, describing the old system as a stack of thousands of applications, many years old. He told host Joel Baird that at one point the agency had nearly 3,900 households on its wait list and that many of those applications were several years old and no longer current.
Oliver said the agency now refreshes and posts available units each week on its website and social media, so prospective tenants can select specific vacancies that meet their needs. "You can access which units are vacant at which properties," he said. MHA publishes vacancy…
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