Housing Authority of the Birmingham District

The Housing Authority of Birmingham District (HABD) Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher waiting list is currently closed. Applications were last accepted from October 27, 2020, until October 30, 2020. 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: 

• Homeless
• Victims of domestic violence
• Involuntarily displaced families due to a formally recognized natural disaster or government action

1,500 applicants were placed on the waiting list by random lottery, weighed by order of preferences.

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

Sources: This information was verified by the HABD on October 27, 2020.

The Housing Authority of the Birmingham District (HABD) Section 8 Project-Based Voucher waiting list for 1, 2, and 3-Bedroom apartments at The Park at Sydney Drive is closed. 

The HABD is accepting applications for this waiting list from January 3, 2022, until January 7, 2022. 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.

For more information, visit the HABD website.

Sources: This information was verified by the HABD on January 3, 2022.

The Housing Authority of the Birmingham District (HABD) last accepted Section 8 Project Based Voucher waiting list applications for The Villas at Titusville from April 11, 2023, until April 18, 2023. There is no notice 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:

• Public Housing Demo/Dispo
  • defined as person(s) legally occupying a unit in a specified public housing community, on the date the community was approved by HUD to be disposed of demolished.
• Public Housing Crime Victims
  • defined as having been a victim of a violent crime or a witness providing testimony to law enforcement of a violent crime which occurred in or around the public housing community.
• Public Housing Uninhabitable
  • defined as a person(s) legally occupying a unit that is deemed unsafe or uninhabitable and there is no other appropriate unit available in the public housing community in which they reside.

It was not known how selected applicants were placed on the waiting list.

For more information, visit the HABD website.

Sources: This information was verified by the HABD website on April 11, 2023.

The Housing Authority of the Birmingham District (HABD) last accepted Public Housing waiting list applications for 1 and 2-bedroom apartments from December 4, 2023, until December 22, 2023. There is no notice of when this waiting list will reopen.

To apply while the waiting list was open, applicants were required to complete the online application.

Preferences have not yet been confirmed.

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

For more information, visit the HABD website.

Sources: This information was verified by the HABD on November 2, 2022.

The Housing Authority of the Birmingham District (HABD) Mainstream Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher waiting list is closed.

The HABD last accepted applications for this waiting list from February 7, 2023, until February 13, 2023. There is no notice when this waiting list will reopen.

Please note: According to the HABD, "The Mainstream Voucher Program is for families that include a qualifying household member, who must be non-elderly, disabled. The head of household (head, co-head, or spouse) does not have to be the qualifying member for eligibility consideration."

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

This waiting list had the following preferences: Non-Elderly, Disabled Households.

500 applicants were placed on this waiting list by date and time the application was received, weighed by order of preferences.

For more information, visit the HABD website.

Sources: This information was verified by the HABD notice on February 2, 2023.