Tucson plans to open the application process for housing choice vouchers and public housing in January. Recipients will eventually be chosen through a lottery process.
For the first time in six years, Tucson is preparing to open its waitlist for potential recipients of housing choice vouchers, or Section 8 rental subsidies, while also accepting applicants for tenants in the city’s public housing units amid a tight rental market struggling to keep up with an ever-increasing demand for housing.
People are also reading… Both programs closed their waiting lists in 2017 when funding ran out to continue to accept applicants. The pre-application process in January will allow applicants to submit an online or paper application to be considered for the programs. The city plans to offer the applications in several languages and provide assistance to those filling out the applications.
Whether lottery winners actually receive housing, or housing subsidies, depends on the availability of residences they can move into. The reopening of Tucson’s waitlists, however, is a “great opportunity for individuals, especially right now as we’re seeing such enormous increases in rents,” Heddings said.“We are not going to get the housing to all the people who need it right away. But it is a mechanism to connect people to housing. At the minimum, providing access is what’s important,” she said. “So that’s the heartbreaking part.
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