I am thinking of doing the MA RAFT housing assistance application.
Does anyone have any experience? How long does it take? How much do they usually give?
Thanks!

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ThisMominterrupted t1_j7mf8xp wrote on February 7, 2023 at 9:19 PM

Im in the process now because of Covid and it's taking FOREVER. I applied months ago

AdImaginary4130 t1_j7mh9se wrote on February 7, 2023 at 9:32 PM

I’m a social worker in MA and the application is updated recently and won’t take super long! Especially as your property manager person should be doing their half of the documents, instead of you now based on the updated version.

AdImaginary4130 t1_j7mhb9y wrote on February 7, 2023 at 9:32 PM

I would recommend doing it if you are thinking about it

expectmax OP t1_j7n3z55 wrote on February 8, 2023 at 12:07 AM

Any ideas how long it takes to process? ie is it like 2 weeks or 3 months that you hear back?

expectmax OP t1_j7n3zqh wrote on February 8, 2023 at 12:07 AM

And thanks!

TAmber1213 t1_j7msydu wrote on February 7, 2023 at 10:49 PM

It depends on if you already have a place or not because I was trying to apply for raft so that I could use it for a down payment and barely any of the landlords that I could find would even take it and there was just so many conflicting things that it was a seemingly impossible situation however if I had already had a place it would have been much easier to apply and get it and I would have gotten it very quickly as all of my information was approved however it has been 2 years since I did any of this and I moved out of Massachusetts officially a year ago as of last month so the system could be updated by now