Tennessee

Tax credit apartments in Oak Ridge, TN

HUD's database lists 7 properties in Oak Ridge built or rehabbed with low-income housing tax credits: 506 apartments, 504 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 Listings come from HUD's database and may be out of date.

Frank Callaghan Towers

115 Fairbanks Road, Oak Ridge, TN 37830

HUD lists it as senior housing · 110 1BR

Apartments
110
Income-restricted
110
Placed in service
2020

Hallmark At Oak Ridge

500 Tuskegee Dr, Oak Ridge, TN 37830

12 1BR, 52 2BR, 8 3BR

Apartments
72
Income-restricted
72
Placed in service
2009

Kareday Terrrace Apts

99 Wilberforce Ave, Oak Ridge, TN 37830

HUD lists it as senior housing · 56 1BR

Apartments
56
Income-restricted
56
Placed in service
2011

Mckenzie Acres Apartments

100 Utica Circle, Oak Ridge, TN 37830

16 1BR, 64 2BR, 20 3BR

Apartments
100
Income-restricted
100
Placed in service
2022

Royce Hill Towns & Gardens

190 Hillside Rd, Oak Ridge, TN 37830

14 1BR, 36 2BR, 22 3BR

Apartments
72
Income-restricted
72
Placed in service
2009

Teller Village Apts

701 Teller Village Ln, Oak Ridge, TN 37830

64 2BR, 16 3BR

Apartments
80
Income-restricted
80
Placed in service
2003

Woodbine Cumberland Meadows

307 A B Timmonns, Oak Ridge, TN

14 3BR

Apartments
16
Income-restricted
14
Placed in service
2003

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.