Chattanooga Housing Authority is making available preliminary applications for its Fairmount Avenue Townhomes and Maple Hills Apartments on Monday. They will remain available through Saturday, Jan. 7.

Residents for these new developments, scheduled to open next year, will be selected through a lottery system.

Preliminary application and lottery guidelines will be online at www.chahousing.org starting Monday. They will also be available at all of CHA's public housing communities and its Central Office, 801 N. Holtzclaw Ave., from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday.

CHA officials will accept applications by mail or other sealed commercial delivery service. They must be postmarked on or before Jan. 7. Hand-delivered applications will be accepted for one day only on Jan. 7, from 7 a.m. to noon, at the agency's Holtzclaw headquarters.

A public random drawing from the pool of eligible applicants will take place at CHA's Holtzclaw office on Friday, Jan. 13, at 10 a.m. Applicants do not have to be present at the drawing.