Skip to page content
VoucherMatch

New affordable apartments in Detroit

Compare published rents, income limits and application details for new buildings in Detroit. Each guide names the application provider and links its sources.

Compare building guides ↓
Published guides
3
Apartments covered
159

Counts describe the buildings in these reports, not current vacancies.

Latest guide · VoucherMatch Editorial Team · Sources & corrections

Rendering of a four-story apartment building with red brick on the lower floors and dark metal panels on the top floor and corners, seen from the street with trees and a sidewalk in frontBuilding guideProject rendering

Woodbridge · Detroit

Canfield Parks Apartments

60 income-restricted apartments

Published rent

State rent caps from $589 a month

Rendering of Canfield Parks Apartments, 4401 Rosa Parks Boulevard in Woodbridge, Detroit. The City of Detroit used the same rendering at the May 2025 groundbreaking. Image source · Credits & usage

Compare building guides in Detroit

Published rents, apartment sizes and application details, in one place.

3 building guides

Application dates in Detroit

No upcoming deadlines are recorded in these guides. This does not mean every building has stopped taking applications. Check the leasing contact or official application linked in each guide.

Published monthly rents by apartment size in Detroit

The lowest monthly rent each building's official listing gives for each apartment size, and the yearly household income the listing accepts. “Based on income” means the rent is set from the household's income. A dash means no figure is recorded here; it does not establish availability.

Published monthly rents by apartment size in Detroit. Rents are per month; income ranges are per year.
Henry Street ApartmentsMidtown, DetroitSource checked Oct 6, 2026$652$690–

Source: each building's official listing, on the date shown in its guide. Income limits depend on household size; these ranges combine different household sizes. Check the guide's full table and voucher rules before applying.

How people apply for affordable apartments in Detroit

  1. There is no lottery and no single application. You contact each building's leasing office, and each keeps its own list. Detroit Home Connect, the City's listing site, says: "You can be on waitlists for multiple properties, but you will need to contact each one of them to begin that process."
  2. Apartments with a Detroit Housing Commission voucher attached are applied for online through the commission. It says "One electronic pre-application is required for all the waiting lists you add your name to" and that it works "in order of the waiting list based on when the names were added".
  3. Waits can be long. Home Connect says "it can take months or over a year to get an available unit", so apply to more than one building.

Sources: Detroit Home Connect, affordable listings, checked October 5, 2026; Detroit Housing Commission, project-based voucher FAQ, checked October 5, 2026.

Vouchers and new affordable buildings in Detroit

Michigan law has covered vouchers since April 2, 2025. A landlord with five or more rental units may not turn a renter down over a voucher and, if it requires "a certain threshold level of income", may not "exclude any source of income in the form of a rent voucher or subsidy when calculating whether the income criteria have been met". In tax-credit buildings, the State's compliance manual lists "imposing minimum income requirements for Section 8/HCV participants" as a prohibited practice. The income maximum still applies. Two agencies issue vouchers in Detroit, the Detroit Housing Commission and the Michigan State Housing Development Authority, and each guide compares the rent with the State authority's payment standard for the ZIP code.

Sources: Michigan Compiled Laws 554.601c, checked October 5, 2026; MSHDA tax-credit compliance manual, Chapter 5, checked October 5, 2026.

For Housing Choice Vouchers, a payment standard helps calculate assistance; it is not a rent limit or a promise of approval. Your agency considers rent, tenant-paid utilities and your household’s share, and must approve the tenancy. HUD’s voucher tenant guidance (checked October 17, 2026).

Other apartment searches in Detroit

Use these local searches alongside the building guides. Confirm availability, rent and voucher requirements with each property contact.

Section 8 apartments

By neighborhood

More housing help in Detroit

Vouchers and income-based housing in Detroit

Questions about new affordable housing in Detroit

Is there a housing lottery in Detroit?
No. Detroit has no lottery and no single application for income-restricted apartments. Each building takes its own applications and keeps its own list, so you contact each leasing office.
How do I apply for affordable housing in Detroit?
Call, email or use the form of each building's leasing office. For apartments with a Detroit Housing Commission voucher attached, file one online pre-application with the commission and add each building's list.
Do new affordable buildings in Detroit take Section 8?
Michigan law bars a landlord with five or more rental units from turning a renter down over a voucher, and requires a voucher to be counted toward any income threshold. Each guide compares the building's rent with the payment standard for its ZIP code.
Is the Detroit Section 8 waiting list open?
No. On October 6, 2026, the Detroit Housing Commission said its Housing Choice Voucher waiting list was closed, and the State housing authority listed no open voucher waiting lists. The commission's lists for apartments with vouchers attached were open.
What income qualifies for affordable housing in Detroit in 2026?
It depends on the apartment's income level. Under the State's 2026 table for Wayne County, one person can earn up to $22,020 at the 30% level, $44,040 at the 60% level and $58,720 at the 80% level; two people, $25,170, $50,340 and $67,120.

New affordable buildings elsewhere

About these Detroit building guides

Each guide here covers one new or newly restored building with income-restricted apartments in Detroit. It gives the rent, or the State's rent cap where the building has not published one, the income limits, who takes applications, and how the rent compares with the voucher payment standard for the ZIP code. Detroit has no lottery, so the figures come from each building's own listing, City of Detroit records and Michigan State Housing Development Authority tables.

Figures come from each building's official listing and public records, dated in its guide. VoucherMatch is not a housing agency and does not take applications for these buildings. How these guides are reported.

Building image credits

  • Canfield Parks Apartments

    Rendering of Canfield Parks Apartments, 4401 Rosa Parks Boulevard in Woodbridge, Detroit. The City of Detroit used the same rendering at the May 2025 groundbreaking. Canfield Parks Apartments, from the building's leasing site. canfieldparks.com · marketing image · cropped

  • Henry Street Apartments

    Rendering of the Henry Street Apartments block from Cass Avenue and Henry Street, Detroit. Bretton Hall and The Claridge, the two income-restricted buildings, are farther along Henry Street. Olympia Development of Michigan and Cinnaire Solutions, from the Henry Street Apartments media kit. henrystreetdetroit.com · media kit image · cropped

  • OSI Art Apartments

    Rendering of OSI Art Apartments, 3820 Grand River Avenue in Woodbridge, Detroit, from the building's Detroit Home Connect listing. OSI Art Apartments, from its Detroit Home Connect listing. homeconnect.detroitmi.gov · listing rendering · set on a plain field