1. Eligibility for Elderly Affordable Housing & Long Term
Services & Supports Don’t Always Align
Eligibility for Subsidized Housing, MassHealth & LTSS
Eligibility for Subsidized housing
& Some LTSS
Subsidized housing
Eligibility & No LTSS
Extremely Limited Housing Eligibility & No LTSS
Public Housing & Some Existing Subsidized & Section 202s with Section 8
Private Pay Rental Housing
Some Existing 202s with PRAC
Various state & federal soft debt programs (some only go up to 50%; some go higher than 80%)
Housing
Project Based Sec. 8 & Mass Rental Voucher Program Rental Vouchers
Low Income Housing Tax Credit
Enhanced Community Options Program (ECOP) and Home Care
HCBS waivers, PACE
Private Pay Homecare (including Long Term Care Insurance)
GAFC/PACE (no copay)
Long Term Support Services
SCO (Senior Care Option)
MassHealth/Medicaid
MA Income Levels
0$- $12,060
0%-100% FPL
$21,700
30% AMI
$26,492
300% FBR
$27,094 ~224% FPL
$36,200 -$43,440
50% - 60% AMI
$54,750
80% AMI
$86,880
120% AMI
FBR=SSI Federal Benefit Rate set by SSA (2017)
FPL= Federal Poverty Limit set by HHS (2017)
AMI= Boston MSA Area Median Income set by HUD (2017)