Boston Section 8

Every year bha is required to ask tenants in section 8 leased housing programs to submit income verification and update household information also called family composition.

Boston section 8. Forms for section 8 voucher holders the following forms are for current participants of the section 8 program. The boston housing authority bha provides public housing and other affordable housing options such as section 8 leases to thousands of residents in and around boston. Residents are assisted through a combination of public housing and federal and state voucher subsidy programs that provide a wide variety of housing opportunities.

All of the regional nonprofit housing organizations in massachusetts work together to administer the state wide section 8 program. Boston housing authority bha provides affordable housing to more than 58 000 residents in and around the city of boston. Section 8 centralized waiting list massachusetts.

Dhcd manages a section 8 hcvp voucher program which serves over 22 000 households. The housing choice voucher program commonly known as section 8 is the federal government s major program for assisting very low income families elders and people with disabilities to afford decent safe and sanitary housing in the private market. You may apply to any one of these regional nonprofit agencies that administer the statewide section 8 program including metro housing boston and your name will be placed on a statewide section 8 waiting list maintained by the massachusetts department of housing.

Contact the division of rental assistance at 617 573 1150 or the local housing authority in a community of your choice. Boston housing authority bha first calculates a household s maximum housing voucher subsidy or the total amount that bha will pay toward rent each month. You can find out which section 8 leased housing programs and communities you may qualify for by using the housing communities search tool.

Boston housing authority bha offers three leased housing programs.