The Working Family Preference means that 50%, one out of every two new vacancies in public housing, will go to a working family, putting the working family on an equal footing with the non-working family in obtaining affordable housing.

A working family, like all public housing residents, is a low-income family. The one-person family maximum annual income is $43,000, the ten-person family maximum is $90,950. See the full listing of income limits for more information.

The goals of the Working Family Preference are to restore the stability, diversity and healthy income mix originally intended for the population of public housing.

They will remain in public housing. This new preference applies only to households admitted to public housing in the future. No one is being displaced by this program.