Livingston, Monroe, Ontario, Orleans and Wayne County, New York Housing Choice Voucher Waiting List

The Rochester Housing Authority (RHA) Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher waiting list is currently closed. Applications were last accepted from December 9, 2019, until December 22, 2019. There is no notice of when this waiting list will reopen.

To apply during the opening period, applicants were required to complete the online application.

This waiting list had the following preferences:

1. Rochester Housing Authority Participants terminated due to insufficient funding; 30 points.
2. Involuntarily displaced from permanent residence by a Federal government action or whose dwelling has been extensively damaged or destroyed as a result of a disaster declared or otherwise formally recognized pursuant to Federal disaster relief laws; 30 points.
3. Live, work or have been hired to work within the Rochester Housing Authority’s jurisdiction; 20 points
4. Non-elderly persons with disabilities who are transitioning out of institutional and other segregated settings, at serious risk of institutionalization, homelessness, or of at risk of becoming homeless; 5 points.
5. Families in a RHA public housing development that are participating in the Family Self-Sufficiency program or are designated senior or disabled and have been certified eligible for a home-ownership voucher; 1 point.

For more information, visit the RHA website.

Sources: This information was verified by the Rochester Housing Authority website.

Service Area

This waiting list is for rental assistance in Livingston, Monroe, Ontario, Orleans and Wayne County, New York.