Housing Grant Application

Please read the following carefully:

If you are homeless you should call 2-1-1 immediately. This is the homelessness hotline and they can help you find shelter quickly.

Important information about the Eastern PA Trans Equity Project rent assistance program.

if you are homeless, facing an imminent threat of homelessness, or need help with rent/utility cost you should first call 2-1-1 which connects you with the Pennsylvania intake system.  The operators there can point you toward additional resources

Our assistance program is designed to ONLY help people who:

• Are transgender/nonbinary or the parent of a transgender minor
• Are already housed but who are struggling to pay their rent or who have secured a lease but need help with a security deposit
• Are able to provide a copy of their signed lease
• Are able to sustain housing/rent payments once assistance has been provided
• Have called 2-1-1 to seek assistance with housing

If approved, we may provide up to one month’s rent or funds for a security deposit if you have secured a lease.  Funds are paid directly to the landlord. The maximum grant is $1,500. We do not pay for hotels.

• EPTEP reserves the right to decline or approve any application.
• Applicant must identify as transgender or be the parent of a minor transgender child to apply.
• Applicants must reside in Adams, Berks, Bucks, Bradford, Carbon, Chester, Columbia, Cumberland, Dauphin, Delaware, Franklin, Juniata, Lackawanna, Lancaster, Lebanon, Lehigh, Luzerne, Lycoming, Monroe, Montgomery, Montour, Northampton, Northumberland, Perry, Pike, Schuylkill, Snyder, Sullivan, Susquehanna, Tioga, Union, Wayne, Wyoming, and York County in Pennsylvania only. Applications from other localities will be declined.
• We do not serve Philadelphia at this time
• We are unable to pay for hotel stays
• Applicant must have secured housing. If you are in need of housing you should call 2-1-1 and/or contact your County Housing Assistance Program.
• EPTEP reserves the right to decline or approve all applications.

Download a list of additional housing assistance programs at this link

You must be a transgender person or the parent of a transgender minor child who resides with you to apply. All other applications will not be considered.