Bay Mills Housing Authority

Bay Mills Housing Authority operates 94 rental units. Housing Authority currently has eight one bedroom apartments, 24 two bedroom apartments and 44 single family homes for low income tribal member families. They also have 18 fair market rental homes. The fair market homes are for individuals who are over income for the low income rentals or non-tribal members. Applications for rental units can be picked up at the Bay Mills Housing Authority office. BMHA runs at 100 percent occupancy all the time. Applicants will generally have a substantial wait time from the time an application is turned in completed and when they are selected for a unit. Bay Mills Housing Authority has a full time maintenance staff of five. Tenants can call the housing authority office from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday to request maintenance work to be done. Those individuals with emergency situations after hours can contact the maintenance staff by their cell phones after hours. Those numbers are posted in the halls at the apartments or are given to all tenants at the time of occupancy. BMHA also manages 73 mutual help home ownership homes. Mutual Help was a program through HUD to assist with home ownership when mortgages were not heard of on the reservation. This program is no longer available now that mortgages can be obtained on trust land. However, Bay Mills Housing Authority does offer down payment assistance to first low income home buyers. Applicants must be income eligible tribal members and purchasing a home in Chippewa County. Applications can be picked up at the Bay Mills Housing Authority office.

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