Public Housing Waiting List

The Housing Authority of the City of Brownsville (HACB) Public Housing waiting list is currently closed. Applications were last accepted from December 9, 2020 until June 30, 2021. 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:

• CPS Referred    
• Honorable discharged Veterans
  Veterans that have been honorably discharged from the Armed Forces of the United States.
• Housing Condemned by the City of Brownsville
  Families who reside in housing that has been condemned by the City of Brownsville.
• Mainstream Vouchers for Non-Elderly Disabled
  Non-elderly persons with disabilities who are transitioning out of institutional and other segregated settings, at serious risk of institutionalization, homeless, or at risk of becoming homeless.
• PH involuntary transfers due to RAD
  Families in Public Housing required to transfer from their unit due to permanent involuntary displacement as a result of a project's conversion of assistance under the Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD).
• PH involuntary transfers due to RAD
  Families in Public Housing required to transfer from their unit due to permanent involuntary displacement as a result of a project's conversion of assistance under the Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD).
• Presidential Declared Disaster
  Families who are victims of a Presidential declared disaster or during a local emergency that has been declared by the chief elected official of the responsible entity who has proclaimed that there is an immediate need for public action to protect the public safety. Families who reside in housing that have been condemned by the City of Brownsville. Families, residents of the City of Brownsville, whose homes (owned or rented), have been destroyed by fire and have been referred by the Red Cross for assistance.
• Public Housing Involuntary Transfer
  Families in Public Housing required to transfer from their unit due to PHA action involving rehab of unit or emergency conditions that make the unit uninhabitable while undergoing repairs.
• Red Cross Referred
  Families, residents of the City of Brownsville, whose homes (owned or rented) have been destroyed by fire and have been referred by the Red Cross for assistance.
• VAWA Emergency Transfers to HACB families
  HACB will give preference to families living in a HACB owned Public Housing property, Project Based Voucher, or PBV-RAD who are victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking and meet the eligibility requirements outline in HACB's VAWA Emergency Transfer Move Plan.
• Victims of Domestic Violence
  Victims of Domestic Violence. Requirements: Referral from a family violence prevention organization, police report and a protective order.
• Working Families, Elderlies, Disabled
  Working families whose head or spouse is currently employed and to include families whose head of household or spouse is sixty-two (62) years of age or disabled receiving a disability pension with a disability rating of 80% or higher. (Social Security Income and/or Supplemental Security Income recipients will automatically receive preference.)
• Youth, foster care & TDHS
  Youth who are at least 18 years old and not more than 21 years old (has not reached 22nd birthday) who left foster care at age 16 or older and who does not have adequate housing and have been referred by the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services.

It was not known how applicants will be placed on the waiting list.

For more information, visit the HACB website.

Sources: This information was verified by the HACB Facebook page on February 2, 2021.

Service Area

This waiting list is for rental assistance in Brownsville, Texas. Apartments offered through this waiting list are only located within this service area.