Pennsylvania

Tax credit apartments in Reading, PA

HUD's database lists 14 properties in Reading built or rehabbed with low-income housing tax credits: 858 apartments, 346 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 Listings come from HUD's database and may be out of date.

Barley Square

220 Grape St, Reading, PA 19602

HUD lists it as senior housing · 45 1BR, 12 2BR

Apartments: 57
Income-restricted: 57
Placed in service: 2020

Century Hall Apts

831 Walnut St, Reading, PA 19601

3 1BR, 12 2BR

Apartments: 15
Income-restricted: 15
Placed in service: 2001

Elm View Apts

350 Elm St, Reading, PA 19601

16 1BR, 16 2BR

Apartments: 32
Income-restricted: 32
Placed in service: 1996

Gateway West Apartments

480 Gordon St, Reading, PA 19601

24 2BR, 22 3BR

Apartments: 46
Income-restricted: 0
Placed in service: 2022

Goggle Works Apts

100 110 N Second 101 Pear St, Reading, PA 19601

Apartments: 17
Income-restricted: n/a
Placed in service: n/a

Homes At Riverside

1001 Weiser Street, Reading, PA 19601

1 1BR, 23 2BR, 23 3BR

Apartments: 47
Income-restricted: 46
Placed in service: 2016

Jamestown Village

300 Lackawanna St, Reading, PA 19601

Apartments: 272
Income-restricted: n/a
Placed in service: n/a

John F Lutz Apts

3559 St Lawrence Ave, Reading, PA 19606

HUD lists it as senior housing · 34 1BR, 5 2BR

Apartments: 39
Income-restricted: 39
Placed in service: 1996

Market Square Apartments

801 Penn St, Reading, PA 19601

HUD lists it as senior housing · 31 1BR, 7 2BR

Apartments: 38
Income-restricted: 38
Placed in service: 2015

Market Square Independent Lvng

N Eighth Ct St, Reading, PA

Apartments: 85
Income-restricted: n/a
Placed in service: n/a

Oakshire Senior Apts

350 Lackawanna St, Reading, PA 19601

Apartments: 90
Income-restricted: n/a
Placed in service: n/a

Penns Crossing

1400 W Wyomissing Ct, Reading, PA 19609

HUD lists it as senior housing · 42 1BR, 10 2BR

Apartments: 52
Income-restricted: 51
Placed in service: 2003

Sunshine Homes

Reading, PA 19601

10 3BR

Apartments: 10
Income-restricted: 10
Placed in service: 1999

Wyomissing Club

501 Walnut St, Reading, PA 19601

HUD lists it as senior housing · 54 1BR, 4 2BR

Apartments: 58
Income-restricted: 58
Placed in service: 1999

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.