Athens Gardens Apartments
135 Coleridge Court, Athens, GA 30605
24 1BR, 64 2BR, 12 3BR
- Apartments
- 100
- Income-restricted
- 100
- Placed in service
- 2021
Georgia
Tax credit apartments in Athens, GA
HUD's database lists 12 properties in Athens built or rehabbed with low-income housing tax credits: 1,377 apartments, 753 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 Listings come from HUD's database and may be out of date.
Bethel Chruch Home Apartments
155 Hickman Dr, Athens, GA 30601
30 1BR, 85 2BR, 75 3BR
- Apartments
- 178
- Income-restricted
- 190
- Placed in service
- 2001
Clarke Gardens Apartments
110 Carriage Court, Athens, GA 30605
24 1BR, 56 2BR, 20 3BR
- Apartments
- 100
- Income-restricted
- 100
- Placed in service
- 2021
Columbia Brookside II
570 Pauldoe St, Athens, GA 30606
- Apartments
- 111
- Income-restricted
- 0
- Placed in service
- 2015
Columbia Brookside III (Pauldoe Redev Iii)
1000 Summerbrook Circle, Athens, GA 30606
- Apartments
- 138
- Income-restricted
- 0
- Placed in service
- 2017
Columbia Senior Residences At Brookside
300 Hawthorne Avenue, Athens, GA 30606
- Apartments
- 100
- Income-restricted
- 0
- Placed in service
- 2014
Fourth Street Village Apartments
690 Fourth St, Athens, GA 30601
20 1BR, 70 2BR, 30 3BR
- Apartments
- 118
- Income-restricted
- 94
- Placed in service
- 2007
Lakewood Hills Senior Village
1005 Barnett Shoals Rd, Athens, GA 30605
- Apartments
- 74
- Income-restricted
- 0
- Placed in service
- 2012
North Grove Apartments
198 Old Hull Rd, Athens, GA 30601
- Apartments
- 128
- Income-restricted
- 127
- Placed in service
- 2016
Oak Hill Apartment
105 Oak Hill Dr, Athens, GA 30601
132 1BR
- Apartments
- 220
- Income-restricted
- 132
- Placed in service
- 1997
Pauldoe Redevelopment Phase I
300 Hawthorne Ln, Athens, GA 30606
72 1BR, 8 2BR
- Apartments
- 100
- Income-restricted
- n/a
- Placed in service
- 2015
Simmons Street Development
135 Simmons St, Athens, GA 30601
- Apartments
- 10
- Income-restricted
- 10
- Placed in service
- 1992
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.