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Actually yes, if you have fostered without interruption (no placements) for a year, you can use it as income. Our lender said that it is no problem, and we can also use our adoption subsidy as income.
Now, I wouldn't go over buy yourself into a house you can't afford, because that helps no body, but in our case we wanted to buy a new place before selling our house in VA, and having the adoption subsidy counted helped us out. We decided to rent instead to learn the new area, but we could have borrowed taking the adoption subsidy and/or fostercare payments into consideration.