Florida

Tax credit apartments in Bartow, FL

HUD's database lists 5 properties in Bartow built or rehabbed with low-income housing tax credits: 588 apartments, 588 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 Listings come from HUD's database and may be out of date.

Azalea Gardens (Bartow)

1050 Golfview Ave, Bartow, FL 33830

12 1BR, 66 2BR, 42 3BR

Apartments: 120
Income-restricted: 120
Placed in service: 1998

Manor At West Bartow

850 Gordon Ave, Bartow, FL 33830

HUD lists it as senior housing · 50 1BR, 50 2BR

Apartments: 100
Income-restricted: 100
Placed in service: 2009

Meetinghouse At Bartow

1400 Old Bartow Eagle Lake Rd, Bartow, FL 33830

HUD lists it as senior housing · 80 1BR, 80 2BR

Apartments: 160
Income-restricted: 160
Placed in service: 2005

Summerlin Oaks

980 E Church St, Bartow, FL 33830

72 2BR, 64 3BR, 8 4BR

Apartments: 144
Income-restricted: 144
Placed in service: 2007

Whispering Pines (Bartow)

4302 Scott Dr, Bartow, FL 33830

12 1BR, 50 2BR, 2 3BR

Apartments: 64
Income-restricted: 64
Placed in service: 2004

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.