The State Rental Assistance Program is accepting pre-applications for the rental assistance waitlist until 5pm Monday.

All pre-applications submitted online during the open enrollment period will be entered into a database and a lottery system will be used to select applicants for the waiting lists. Pre-applications for SRAP assistance will be accepted from very low-income households. Applicants must be eighteen (18) years of age or older to apply or be an emancipated minor. Pre-applications successfully submitted during the open enrollment period have the same chance of being selected during the lottery. Those selected in the lottery for the wait list will then be eligible to receive SRAP vouchers as they become available.

A total of 4,000 households will be selected through a lottery system and will be placed on the waiting list. Only one SRAP pre-application per household will be accepted.

Only New Jersey residents are eligible to apply for SRAP assistance. A New Jersey resident is defined as someone whose primary residence is in New Jersey and who has resided in New Jersey for at least six months prior to applying for SRAP assistance.

Individuals selected by the lottery to be placed on the waiting list will be notified via email which may take several weeks.

Click here for more information or to apply.