Seattle Housing Authority is opening a new waitlist for the Housing Choice Voucher (Section 8)

According to a summary post on the Seattle Housing Authority website, Seattle Housing Authority is opening a new waitlist for the Housing Choice Voucher (Section 8) program in King County this spring. There you can also check how the program works: how much tenants pay for rent and utilities, leasing, annual reviews and inspections, moving, terminating assistance, and disability accommodations.

Seattle Housing Authority assigned Section 8 Waitlist Lottery positions

HCV Program Manager Jodell Speer announced that positions have now been assigned to the 2013 Housing Choice Voucher (Section 8) Program Waitlist and that notification letters will be mailed this week letting all registrants know if they are on the 2013 waitlist. Seattle Housing Authority received close to 24,000 registrations and 2,000 of those were randomly selected to be placed on the waiting list.

Unfortunately, due to federal budget cuts that went into effect on March 1st, Seattle Housing Authority are unable to begin issuing vouchers to the new waitlist for the foreseeable future. They stated that they will be posting updated information about the status of the waitlist on their website at http://www.seattlehousing.org. There will still be a position on the waitlist for all 2,000 randomly selected households when they begin to issue vouchers again.

 If your household registered for the lottery, you will receive a letter from us in the mail by the end of March letting you know whether or not your household was selected at random to be placed on our 2,000-household waitlist for Section 8 assistance.

If you have questions about the process or your submitted registration information, please call the waitlist hotline at 206-239-1674. Staff will be answering the hotline Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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King County Housing Authority is now taking section 8 Applications

  

Registration for the 2013 Housing Choice Voucher (Section 8) waitlist lottery is now open.

Registration for the Housing Choice Voucher Program lottery is open for three weeks from February 4 at 7 a.m. to February 22 at 5 p.m. Application would be accepted online at the Seattle Housing Authority website. Seattle Housing Authority will randomly select at least 2,000 households to be entered onto the waiting list. This is the first time since 2008 that the waiting list has been opened, and the housing authority is still contacting people from that original list.

For more information about the lottery for the Section 8 waiting list visit the Seattle Housing Authority website or call their waiting list hotline at 206-239-1674.