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Rental assistance near you in your community

Updated October 21, 2025 • 11 min read • 2,282 words
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Rental assistance near you in your community.

Find rental assistance programs that are available in local communities, and most likely near you. Charities, churches, and government organizations may offer various forms of help. Most regions have a number of rent relief programs that focus on stopping evictions or rehousing the homeless. There will often be grant money to pay back rent or a security deposit or moving costs, or free lawyers that help stop an eviction. Select

  • link below to a local city, state, or county rental assistance program that may be near you and the contact information is on those local pages.

The funding will be limited. However, some of the programs that offer help near you with rent may offer immediate, same day assistance. But that will be rare. The categories of local rental assistance, with links to more resources, include the following.

Links to national programs that offer local rental assistance

List of city, county and state rent assistance programs If you need additional help in finding resources in your community, please e-mail us. Be sure to include your state/county as a significant amount of local rent assistance programs are offered local level. The email .

Links to national programs that offer local rental assistance

There will be different types of local housing or rent assistance programs available as well . Low-income families, those with an eviction letter (or close to it) will find all or some of the resources available. There may also be rent relief near you focused on helping veterans, single moms, senior citizens or disabled people. There are some national non-profits or charities (or government agencies) that focus on single parents . They also operate local rental or security deposit assistance programs as well. They include the United Way, Shared Housing, or Homeless Prevention Hotline. Look here for apartments for single mothers . Free pro-bono law firms , or volunteer attorneys, help tenants with an eviction notice. They can also represent low income families or the elderly in housing court and help them apply for government rent relief programs. Find a tenant lawyer to stop evictions in your community . First month’s rent or security deposit assistance is offered by many organizations. This financial help as well as money for last months rental payments will be offered often near you as well by many of the same local agencies or charities. Get help in your community with a security deposit . Free emergency hotel or motel room vouchers are often part of rental relief. Many local cities and towns offer a voucher when homeless shelters are full. This is combined with other rent, housing, and case management services and look here for a free hotel voucher for tonight near where you live . Subsidized housing and income-based rental homes, namely from section 8 housing choice vouchers, are for low-income families. They help families or single people pay rent based on their income and look here for local section 8 housing vouchers . Often part of local housing programs are rent free homes or apartments . In general, these are only for people with zero savings and income, such as a women facing DV or someone with a medical issue. Look here for rent free apartments near you . Local county and city governments, as well as charities and churches that may be near you, all try to help low income renters prevent an eviction . Get rent help to keep a home, apartment, or housing unit. Last minute, immediate rent assistance as well as other solutions near you are offered. Find help near you with an eviction notice . Another goal of most communities is to keep the tenant housed into an affordable apartment or house , as trying to “re-house” a family is often more expensive for both the local government as well as family. This also includes low income housing without a waiting list near you Local landlords offer rent relief to tenants with low credit scores too. Many of these programs, including homes to lease, are run in partnership with the government. There will often be private rental homes for rent near you with no credit check and that are income based as well. A list of local rent assistance programs are below. As organizations in your area will help struggling families. There are other resources that low-income families can explore for rent assistance near where they live. HUD has a resource locator that combines federal resources with local benefits. There is also a phone number at 202-708-1112 which can offer other customer support and applications to organizations in each city that help people who are renting a property.

Local rental assistance programs in your community

Find a city, county or state local rent assistance program that will be near you below. As noted, there will be a number of charities, lawyers, government or non-profit organizations that assist with housing needs. Some of the rent help will be focused on certain types of tenants, such as the disabled or single mothers or veterans.

Baldwin County

Birmingham and Jefferson County

Blount, DeKalb and Jackson County

Hunstsville and Madison County

Lee County

Marshall County

Mobile County

Montgomery County

Shelby County

Tuscaloosa County

Arizona Bisbee and Cochise Mesa

Mohave County

Phoenix and Maricopa County

Prescott and Yavapai County

Tucson and Pima County

Arkansas Fayetteville, Washington and Benton County

Fort Smith and Sebastian County

Little Rock and Pulaski County

California

Bakersfield and Kern County

Butte County

Contra Costa County

Fresno County

Los Angeles County

Long Beach

Marin County

Merced County

Monterey County

Napa County

Oakland and Alameda County

Orange County

Placer County

Sacramento City and County

San Bernardino County

San Francisco City and County

San Diego County

San Joaquin County

San Luis Obispo County

San Mateo County

Santa Barbara County

Santa Clara County

Santa Cruz County

Shasta and Tehama County

Solano County

Sonoma County

Stanlius County

Tulare County

Ventura County

Yolo County

Colorado

Adams County

Arapahoe County

Boulder

Colorado Springs and El Paso County

Denver City and County

Fort Collins and Lancaster County

Jefferson County

Connecticut Fairfield County and Bridgeport City area

Hartford City and County

New Haven County

New London County

Windham County

Florida

Alachua County

Brevard County

Broward County

Charlotte and DeSoto County

Citrus County and Hernando County

Escambia and Santa Rosa County

Highlands County

Hillsborough County

Jacksonville and Duval County

Lake County

Lee County

Leon County

Manatee County

Marion County

Miami and Dade County

Naples and Collier County

Okaloosa and Walton County

Orlando and Orange County

Osceola County

Palm Beach County

Panama City and Bay County

Pasco County

Polk County

Sarasota County

Seminole County

St. Petersburg and Pinellas County

Sumter County

Volusia County

Georgia

Athens and Clarke County

Atlanta and Fulton County

Bibb and Houston County

Carroll County

Clayton County

Cobb County

Columbia County

Dekalb County

Douglas County

Fayette and Cowetta County

Glynn County

Gwinnett County

Henry County

Lowndes County

Paulding County

Savannah and Chatham County

Walton and Newton County

Hawaii

Honolulu County

Idaho

Boise and Ada County

Canyon County

Kootenai County

Illinois

Champaign and Vermilion County

Chicago

Danville and Vermilion County

Dupage County

Kane County

Kankakee County

Lake County

Madison County

McHenry County

McLean County

Peoria County

Sangamon County

St. Clair County

Will County

Winnebago County

Indiana

Allen County

Clark County

Indianapolis and Marion County

Lake County

Monroe and Lawrence County

Porter County

St. Joseph County

Ames County

Davenport

Des Moines and Polk County

Linn County

Woodbury County

Kansas

Douglas County

Olathe and Johnson County

Sedgwick County

Kentucky

Hardin County

Kenton and Campbell County

Lexington and Fayette County

Louisville and Jefferson County

Madison County

Louisiana

Ascension Parish

Baton Rouge

Calcasieu Parish

Jefferson Parish

Lafayette Parish

Livingston Parish

New Orleans

Ouachita Parish

Rapides Parish

Shreveport, Bossier and Caddo Parrish St. Tammany Parish

Penobscot County

Portland and Cumberland County

Maryland

Anne Arundel County

Baltimore

Columbia and Howard County

Frederick County

Montgomery County

Prince George’s County Massachusetts Boston

Essex County

Middlesex County

Norfolk County

Plymouth County

Springfield and Hampden County

Worcester County

Michigan

Allegan and Van Buren County

Ann Arbor and Washtenaw County

Berrien County

Detroit and Wayne County

Eaton and Calhoun County

Flint and Genesee County

Grand Rapids and Kent County

Ingham County

Jackson County

Kalamazoo County

Macomb County

Midland County

Monroe and Lenawee County

Oakland County

Ottawa County

Saginaw County

Minnesota

Anoka County

Minneapolis and Hennepin County

Ramsey County

Rochester and Olmsted County

Scott County

Stearns and Sherburne County

Stillwater and Washington County

Mississippi

Charlotte County

Desoto and Tate County

Forrest and Lamar County

Harrison County

Jackson and Hinds County

Bolivar, Coahoma, Sunflower and Washington County

Jefferson County

Kansas City

Platte County

Springfield St. Charles County St. Louis City and County

Omaha and Douglas County

Nevada

Las Vegas and Clark County

Reno and Washoe County

New Hampshire

Hillsborough County

New Jersey

Bergen County

Burlington County

Camden County

Jersey City and Hudson County

Middlesex County

Monmouth County

Morris County

Newark and Essex County

Ocean County

Passaic County

Somerset County

Trenton and Mercer County

Union County

New Mexico

Albuquerque and Bernalillo County

Santa Fe County

San Juan County

New York

Albany, Schenectady, and Rensselaer County

Buffalo and Erie County

Binghamton and Broome County

Chemung and Steuben County

Jefferson and St. Lawrence County area

Monroe County

Nassau County

New York City

(all boroughs) Brooklyn organizations Queens focused

Staten Island

focused

Niagara County

Oneida County

Onondaga County

Ontario, Wayne and Seneca County

Orange County

Oswego and Lewis County

area Plattsburgh, Clinton and Essex County

Rockland County

Saratoga County

Suffolk County

Ulster County

Westchester County

North Carolina

Asheboro and Randolph County

Asheville and Buncombe County

Cabarrus County

Davidson County

Durham Edgecombe, Nash and Wilson County

Fayetteville and Cumberland County

Franklin, Granville, Person, Vance, and Warren County

Gaston County

Greenville and Pitt County

Guilford County

Henderson County

Hickory and Catawba County

Iredell, Rowan, and Davie County

Raleigh and Wake County

Wicomico County

Wilmington and New Hanover County

Winston Salem and Forsyth County

Ohio

Akron and Summit County

Allen County

Butler County

Cincinnati and Hamilton County

Clermont County

Cleveland and Cuyahoga County

Columbus and Franklin County

Dayton and Montgomery County

Fairfield County

Greene County

Lake County

Licking County

Lorain County

Mahoning and Trumbull County

Medina County

Muskingum County

Portage County

Richland County

Springfield and Clark County

Stark County

Toledo and Lucas County

Tuscarawas County

Warren County

Wayne County

Wood and Hancock County

Oklahoma

Cleveland County

Oklahoma City and County

Tulsa County

Oregon

Clackamas County

Deschutes and Linn County

Douglas County

Eugene and Lane County

Hillsboro and Washington County

Jackson and Josephine County

Portland

Salem and Marion County

Pennsylvania

Berks County

Blair County

Bucks County

Butler County

Cambria County

Chester County

Cumberland County

Delaware County

Erie County

Franklin County

Harrisburg and Dauphin County

Indiana and Armstrong County

Lancaster County

Lebanon County

Lehigh County

Luzerne County

Lycoming County

Monroe County

Montgomery County

Northampton County

Philadelphia City and County

Pittsburgh and Allegheny County

Schuylkill County

Scranton and Lackawanna Pennsylvania

Susquehanna, Tioga, Wayne County

Westmoreland County

York County

Rhode Island

Providence County and City

Washington County

South Carolina

Anderson County

Beaufort County

Charleston County

Dorchester County

Florence County

Greenville County

Horry County

Laurens County

Lexington County

Orangeburg County

Pickens County

Richland County

Spartanburg County

York County

South Dakota

Tennessee

Blount County

Chattanooga and Hamilton County

Cleveland and Rutherford County

Columbia and Maury County

Knoxville and Knox County

Memphis and Shelby County

Nashville and Davidson County

Rutherford County

Sullivan County

Sumner County

Williamson County

Wilson County

Texas

Amarillo and Potter County

Austin and Travis County

Bastrop County

Bell County

Brazoria County

Brownsville and Cameron

Collin County

Comal County

Coryell County

Corpus Christi and Nueces County

Dallas City and County

Denton County

El Paso City and County

Ellis County

Fort Bend County

Guadalupe County

Galveston County

Hays County

Hidalgo County

Houston and Harris County

Jefferson County

Kaufman County

Lubbock County

Midland County

Montgomery County

Navarro County

Odessa and Ector County

Parker County

Randall County

San Antonio and Bexar County

Rockwall County

Smith and Gregg County

Tarrant County

Waco and McLennan County

Webb County

Williamson County

Wichita County

Utah

Davis County

Provo and Utah County

Salt Lake City and County

Virgina Arlington and Alexandria

Chesterfield County

Fairfax County

Hampton Roads

Henrico County

Loudoun County

Lynchburg Manassas

Roanoke and Montgomery County

Stafford County

Virginia Beach

Washington

Benton County

Everett and Snohomish County

Kitsap County

Seattle and King County

Spokane County

Tacoma and Pierce County

Thurston County

Vancouver and Clark County

Yakima and Benton County

Washington DC

Washington DC - District of Columbia

West Virginia

Cabell County

Charleston and Kanawha County

Wood County

Wisconsin

Dodge County

Green Bay and Brown County

Kenosha County

Madison and Dane County

Marathon County

Milwaukee County and City

Outagamie County

Racine County

Waukesha and Washington County

Want to find other resources, tips and suggestions ? Or ask a question? We have a community form dedicated to rental assistance programs and you can find first hand experience of what others are going through. People from across the county also post tips, give support and encourage and try to help others in need.