RENTAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM

The Rental Allowance Program (RAP) is funded and regulated by the Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD), providing grants to local governments to assist low-income families who either are homeless or have an emergency housing need with flat rent subsidies. The ultimate goal is to help families transition from homelessness or temporary emergency housing to permanent housing.

Participating families find their own housing including rooms for rent, boarding house rooms, other single-room occupancy arrangements, apartments, group homes, transitional housing (provided it is not temporary emergency housing), single-family houses, and mobile homes.