Rents could go up for 149 low-income families and individuals in Cambridge and Somerville who hold federally funded Section 8 vouchers distributed by the state’s affordable housing agency in an unusual program.
The Executive Office of Housing and Livable Communities has also closed the waiting list for the vouchers.
The change, reported earlier by MassLive, does not apply to two well known state-funded rent voucher programs, known as MRVP and AHVP, agency spokesperson Kevin Connor said. It also doesn’t affect federal rent vouchers provided by local housing authorities: the Cambridge Housing Authority and Somerville Housing Authority. Connor said there are 113 households affected in Cambridge and 36 in Somerville.
