Thank you for your interest in Project Freedom’s housing.  Project Freedom rents apartments to people with disabilities.  Project Freedom is not a nursing home, assisted living, a group home, or a medical facility.  Project Freedom does not provide supervision or personal assistance. 

Our apartments are administered like any other apartments through a lease.  Applicants must be income eligible to be considered. We have three locations in Mercer County; Robbinsville, Hamilton, and Lawrence, and currently they have no openings.  We are now accepting applications for Project Freedom at Trent Center, which is scheduled to be opening in October 2008.
 
People living in our apartments must be able to manage their lives or have services in place to assist them.  They also must have an annual income under $32,000 for a single person to qualify to live in them.  Our apartments are rented through leases, and the lease holder must be of legal age. 

Rents are based on individual incomes and other factors.  If the tenant does not have a Housing Voucher, then he/she must be able to afford $550 in rent for a one-bedroom apartment at our Lawrence campus as an example.  The rents vary at Hamilton and Robbinsville. 

Since many people with disabilities require Housing Vouchers and Medicaid services for support, we warn people who live out of state their eligibility for these programs may be limited by living outside of New Jersey.  The state directs services to its citizens first, and Project Freedom has no say or influence in this process.

Project Freedom operates apartments designed for people using wheelchairs.  Federal law gives preference to people who use wheelchairs, but people with other disabilities can and do live in our apartments.  Our "target market" is people with disabilities ages 18 to 55 since there are many age-restricted places for seniors, but everyone can apply.  We have a waiting list of nearly 300 people with a low vacancy rate. 

Also, because are apartments are funded through Low Income Housing Tax Credits, federal law prohibit Project Freedom from renting to full-time students.  This is a policy we cannot change.

We are not taking applications unless the person has a Housing Choice Voucher or has an annual income of $21,000.  If you think you qualify, please click on the link or contact PFatHamilton@aol.com with a mailing address.  

Again, thank you for your interest.