Once you are approved for a transfer, you will receive a letter stating the approval and level of transfer you are approved for and you will be placed on a waiting list. Administrative transfers receive the highest priority. Special Circumstances transfers will be offered the next available every other fourth unit that is appropriate to the family size and needs documented anywhere in the city at a location that will meet the resident’s needs. The housing offers will be made in ranking order by bedroom size required and transfer application date. The timing of the On-site under/over housed transfers depends on the overall vacancy turnover of the development. Every eight unit will be offered to an approved over or under housed transfer in ranking order when the site is at least at a 98% occupancy rate.
Substantial cause transfers which are Internal Applicants due to being either over or under housed, or due to rent burden in the federal program because some households have eligible immigration status and other household members do not eligible immigration status have a lower priority. These residents are considered to be standard Applicants on the developments of choice and may wait some time for a transfer to actually take place. Internal Applicants are residents who want to move to another development of choice (non-Special Circumstances categories) and must successfully complete a final eligibility screening process which includes the review of the criminal record for all household members ages 14 and older (except for residents residing in state-aided developments who want to move to another state-aided development the transfer eligibility criteria will be applicable).
Once a housing offer is made, you will be given a period of five (5) business days starting from the date you are offered the apartment to accept or refuse the offer. Be reminded, the BHA regrettably does not have immediate housing. As units are vacated they are assigned and they must be prepared and made ready before any move-in may occur. Residents will have thirty (30) days to move to the offered and accepted unit from the date the housing offer was made unless a different period is agreed and approved by management.