The Dallas Housing Authority (DHA) Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher waiting list is currently open. Applications are being accepted from January 21, 2020 at 9:00 am CT, until further notice.

Please note: This opening also includes the Walker Settlement Voucher Program and the Mainstream Housing Choice Voucher Program. According to the DHA, "Walker Settlement Vouchers are allocated for Class Members only (African-Americans), who agree to live in a 'high opportunity' area with low poverty that is not a minority neighborhood. The Mainstream Housing Voucher Program is for non-elderly persons who have a disability and are between the age of 18 and 62, who are homeless or at-risk of homelessness or institutionalization."

To apply during the opening period, complete the online application here.

This waiting list has the following preferences:

• Families involuntarily displaced from their current housing due to governmental action or federally designated natural disaster.
• Individuals who need and qualify for congregate housing in an assisted living facility.
• Families who have been made homeless by documented domestic violence; and individuals graduating from or “aging out” of the foster care program administered by the Texas Department of Protective and Regulatory Services, families completing their tenure in transitional housing (under the Continuum of Care), chronically homeless individuals and persons; and currently or formerly homeless applicants who are ready to move to project or tenant based voucher housing providing permanent supportive housing to the homeless;
• Families that include children between the age of 3 and 10, only as it relates to the participation of a national study which DHA is a party to.

Selected applicants will be placed on the waiting list by random lottery, weighed by order of preferences.

For more information, read the DHA public notice, or visit the DHA website.