Housing Assistance Inquiry Form Template

No — and the form template makes that clear with a built-in disclaimer. Submitting an inquiry starts the review process, but assistance depends on eligibility and available resources.

The email field is optional in this template, so applicants can submit with only a phone number. Phone number is set as required to ensure staff can follow up.

Add an Upload field in the editor and the lease, eviction notice, or pay stub arrives with the inquiry instead of by email a week later — 2 MB per file, one file per field, so add a second field if you expect two documents. Housing paperwork exposes an address, an income figure, and who lives in the household, so encryption is worth turning on, and worth deciding at setup: the choice is part of the form and stops being changeable the moment the first inquiry comes in. On an encrypted form the applicant's own phone or laptop does the work, so the file is already unreadable when it leaves them, and the filename is sealed inside the submission rather than stored beside it. The trade-off is weight — ciphertext runs about a third heavier than the original, so treat roughly 1.4 MB as the real ceiling on an encrypted form. If your program would rather verify documents at a later eligibility step, a paragraph field saying so keeps the first contact short.

Yes. You can add fields for bedroom size needed, prior eviction history, and criminal background (where legally permitted) to match your program's pre-screening criteria.

Add a zip code or county field and note in the intro paragraph which geographic areas your program serves. You can manually filter out-of-area applicants during triage.

Yes. All submissions are accessible in the formformform dashboard to anyone with account access, and can be exported to CSV for tracking in spreadsheets or databases.