The Housing Authority of Cook County (HACC) will be re-opening its site-based wait lists to veterans only for one- and two-bedroom project-based voucher (PBV) units for Otto Square Veteran’s Housing located at 1440 Otto Blvd. in Chicago Heights IL 60411. Otto Square is an 82 unit new construction community designed with the purpose of providing quality, affordable housing for our country’s veterans.

The PBV Program is a rental assistance program where the resident pays 30% of his/her income towards the rent. To be eligible for the PBV units, the applicant’s household income limits. The maximum occupancy standard is 2 people per bedroom. Families are assigned a unit size based on the HACC’s subsidy standards. Families with more than 4 people will not qualify.

Applications will be available beginning on Monday, October 7, 2024 at 10:00 a.m. To apply, applicants need to log onto the HACC’s website at www.thehacc.org. Scroll down and click “Open Wait List” on the HACC’s home page. Select the desired property and then click “Apply to Wait List.” The wait list will close at 4:00 p.m. on Friday, October 18, 2024. 

Applications must be submitted electronically through the website. At this time, only applications submitted by veterans will be added to the wait list; the order of placement on the wait list will be based on a randomized computer-generated lottery system. Applications from non-veterans will not be added to the wait list.