California

Tax credit apartments in Palm Springs, CA

HUD's database lists 11 properties in Palm Springs built or rehabbed with low-income housing tax credits: 868 apartments, 852 of them income-restricted. Rents in those units are capped while each property's affordability agreement runs, and you qualify by income; many properties still keep waiting lists.

Equal housing opportunity. Tax credit properties must follow the Fair Housing Act, which bars discrimination because of race, color, religion, sex, disability, familial status or national origin, and they may not refuse an applicant because the applicant holds a Housing Choice (Section 8) voucher (IRC 42(h)(6)(B)(iv)). Properties HUD lists as senior housing may limit who lives there by age only as the Fair Housing Act's housing-for-older-persons exemption allows. To report housing discrimination, call HUD at 1-800-669-9777.

LIHTC Atlas does not own, manage or rent these apartments and does not take applications. Contact each property's management for availability, rents and income rules. Listings come from HUD's database and may be out of date.

Coyote Run Apts

3601 N Sunrise Way, Palm Springs, CA 92262

Apartments
140
Income-restricted
140
Placed in service
1993

Coyote Run Apts II

3401 N Sunrise Way, Palm Springs, CA 92262

8 1BR, 20 2BR, 30 3BR, 8 4BR

Apartments
66
Income-restricted
65
Placed in service
2006

Pacific Palms Apts

423 S Calle El Segundo, Palm Springs, CA 92262

25 1BR, 82 2BR, 32 3BR

Apartments
139
Income-restricted
137
Placed in service
2000

Palm Springs Senior

3200 E Baristo Rd, Palm Springs, CA 92262

HUD lists it as senior housing · 115 1BR, 1 2BR

Apartments
116
Income-restricted
115
Placed in service
2007

Rancheria Del Sol Apartments

321a S Calle El Segundo, Palm Springs, CA 92262

12 1BR, 52 2BR, 12 3BR

Apartments
76
Income-restricted
75
Placed in service
2014

Rosa Gardens Apts

555 W Rosa Parks Rd, Palm Springs, CA 92262

8 1BR, 20 2BR, 24 3BR, 5 4BR

Apartments
57
Income-restricted
56
Placed in service
2011

Seminole Gardens Apts

2607 S Linden Way, Palm Springs, CA 92264

1 1BR, 29 2BR, 30 3BR

Apartments
60
Income-restricted
59
Placed in service
2002

Sunnyview Villa

2900 N. Indian Canyon Drive, Palm Springs, CA 92262

40 2BR, 4 3BR

Apartments
44
Income-restricted
43
Placed in service
2024

Sunset Palm

1433 N Indian Canyon Dr, Palm Springs, CA 92262

Apartments
24
Income-restricted
23
Placed in service
n/a

Vista Sunrise Apts

1313 E Vista Chino, Palm Springs, CA 92262

61 studio, 32 1BR

Apartments
85
Income-restricted
79
Placed in service
2006

Vista Sunrise II

1527 N. Sunrise Way, Palm Springs, CA 92262

48 studio, 12 1BR, 1 2BR

Apartments
61
Income-restricted
60
Placed in service
2024

Source: HUD's national LIHTC database (LIHTCPUB, revised May 28, 2026; projects placed in service through 2024). Properties a state agency has flagged as no longer monitored are left out; properties placed in service after 2024 are not in HUD's database yet.

How tax credit apartments work

Each income-restricted unit has a maximum rent set from the area's income limits: gross rent, including a utility allowance for tenant-paid utilities, can't go above 30% of the income limit for the unit's size. The rent doesn't change with your own income, so a household near the bottom of the range pays the same rent as one near the top. That's different from public housing or a voucher, where you pay a share of what you earn.

To qualify, your household's income has to be at or under the limit the unit is set at, usually 50% or 60% of the area median, and up to 80% in some buildings. Management checks income, and assets, when you apply. A household made up entirely of full-time students generally can't qualify, with exceptions in IRC 42(i)(3)(D) such as single parents and married students filing jointly. More on qualifying.

You can apply with a Housing Choice voucher, and the property can't turn you down because you have one.