Housing Programs
Public Housing Program – provides income-based housing to eligible individuals/families. The units are located in the City of Asheboro, NC and include designated elderly units and family units. Preferences are given for elderly, disabled and working applicants who live or work in Randolph County.
Housing Choice Voucher Program – provides income-based rental assistance for a participant to a private landlord. Preferences are given for elderly, disabled and working applicants who live or work in Randolph County.
Wainman Homes, Inc. (Wainman) was established as a nonprofit corporation on February 13, 1978, to promote include the following:
- Provide housing for low & moderate-income families displaced by urban renewal, by government action or as a result of a major disaster.
- Provide housing for lower-income families where no adequate housing exists, to purchase housing and rehabilitate the housing where appropriate.
- To buy, own, sell or lease real estate and to construct, maintain and operate such housing.
- July 10, 1979, Wainman signed a forty (40) year Housing Assistance Payments (HAP) Contract with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to construct, manage and maintain forty (40) units of affordable housing for the elderly including 32 one-bedroom units and 8 two-bedroom units.
CASPN Homes Apartments is an affordable housing tax credit property developed in 1998 by the Asheboro Housing Authority (AHA) and its nonprofit Wainman Homes, Inc. In partnership with CAHEC, an affordable housing developer CASPN Homes was approved for Low Income Housing Tax Credits (LIHTC) by the North Carolina Housing Finance Agency (NCHFA) in 1997 and construction was completed in 1998. AHA has been the only management agent for CASPN Homes. When the LIHTCs expired in 2014 AHA, through the nonprofit Wainman Homes, Inc purchased the facility from CAHEC.
- The building has 51 one-bedroom apartments with 50 units serving adults 55 years of age and older. The facility is neither a nursing home nor an assisted living facility and does not provide services to residents. The one remaining unit houses a resident manager employed by AHA. The maximum income limits are $18,900 annually for one person and $21,600 annually for two people. The current rent is $548 per month which includes all utilities. CASPN is not a Section 8 complex but we do accept Section 8 vouchers. Currently, there are 30 voucher holders residing in the facility. Attached is an information sheet that is provided to prospective tenants.
Brenlin Homes was established as a nonprofit corporation on March 14, 1980, to promote the following:
- Provide housing for low & moderate-income families displaced by urban renewal, by government action or as a result of a major disaster.
- To buy, own, sell or lease real estate and to construct, maintain and operate such housing.
- Borrow money to further objects of its business.
- Brenlin Homes currently owns and manages eight scattered sites rental properties throughout Asheboro City and Randolph County.
- The rents are not income based but the property accepts section 8 vouchers.