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Boca Raton Housing Authority is a housing authority that participates in the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher (HCV), and Public Housing programs.
Boca Raton Housing Authority offers Public Housing and Section 8 Housing rental assistance in Palm Beach County.
Waiting List | Status |
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Palm Beach County, Florida Housing Choice Voucher | Closed |
Boca Raton Housing Authority Public Housing | Closed |
Boca Raton Housing Authority Senior and Disabled Public Housing | Closed |
The Boca Raton Housing Authority (BRHA) Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher waiting list is currently closed. Applications were last accepted from February 17, 2021, until February 19, 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:
400 applicants were placed on the waiting list by random lottery, weighed by order of preferences.
For more information, visit the BRHA website.
Sources: This information was verified by the BRHA on February 17, 2021.
This waiting list is for Housing Choice Voucher rental assistance in Palm Beach County, Florida.
Last Updated on 08/17/2021.
The Boca Raton Housing Authority (BRHA) waiting list for Public Housing apartments is currently closed. Applications were last accepted from September 16, 2020, until September 18, 2020. There is no notice of when this waiting list will reopen. 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.
Preferences have not yet been confirmed.
300 applicants were placed on the waiting list by random lottery, weighed by order of preferences.
For more information, visit the BRHA website.
Sources: This information was verified by the BRHA public notice, as of September 4, 2020.
This waiting list is for Public Housing rental assistance in Boca Raton, Florida. Apartments offered through this waiting list are only located within this service area.
Last Updated on 03/16/2022.
Last Updated on 12/15/2015.
More information about Boca Raton Housing Authority can be found on its website at http://www.bocahousing.org/.
Representatives of Boca Raton Housing Authority may be available by phone at (561) 206-6200. Unless otherwise noted above, applications will not be provided or accepted by phone.
As of 08/16/2022, it is not known if Boca Raton Housing Authority is either absorbing or billing Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher portability requests for porting in. Learn more about porting Housing Choice Vouchers to a new area here.
As of the HUDs most recent Voucher Management System report, Boca Raton Housing Authority manages 602 active Housing Choice Vouchers.
The following is a summary of the types of vouchers managed and the monthly costs of each as of September 30th, 2021:
Standard | Homeownership | Tenant Protection | Ported Out | VASH | Non-Elderly Disabled | |
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Vouchers | 504 | 5 | 16 | 8 | 2 | 67 |
Monthly Cost Per Voucher | $1,007 | $855 | $990 | $1,460 | $863 | $934 |
Monthly Cost | $507,601 | $4,276 | $15,843 | $11,679 | $1,726 | $62,553 |
According to the 2016 Q4 Picture of Subsidized Households database, the housing authority's voucher program has an annual turnover of 6% having issued approximately 113 vouchers in the past year. The average voucher holder has received housing benefits for 9 years0 months. According to the 2016 PSH database, persons who were issued a voucher in the preceding 12 months waited an average of 73 months on the waiting list1.
According to 2016 Q4 Picture of Subsidized Households data, the average voucher household contains 3 persons and has a household income of $17,014 per year. 87% of households were very low income (VLI) and 61% were extremely low income (ELI). 40% of households had wages as a major source of income, 1% of households had welfare (TANF, General Assistance or Public Assistance) as their primary source of income, and 59% of households had other income (Social Security, Disability or Pension) as their major source of income.
1% of households were headed by a person 24 years old or less, 63% were headed by a person 25 to 49 years old, 16% were headed by a person 51 to 60 years old, and 20% were headed by a person 62 years old or older. In addition, 3% of households were headed by a person 85 years old or older.
59% of households included children, 5% of which had two adults in the household. 58% of households with children have a female head of household. 93% of all households were headed by a female.
85% of all voucher households were headed by minorities with 73% of all heads of households being Black and 1% being Hispanic.
Of all households participating in the Boca Raton Housing Authority Housing Choice Voucher program, 21% include at least one person with a disability. 24% of households with a head of household 61 years or less were headed by a person with a disability. 82% of households headed by someone 62 or older were headed by a person with a disability.
17% of voucher holders reside in a home with zero or 1 bedroom, 42% with 2 bedrooms and 42% with 3 or more bedrooms. 18% of voucher recipients are considered overhoused, meaning they occupy a rental unit larger than their family size requires.
The average monthly tenant contribution to rent by Boca Raton Housing Authority voucher holders in 2016 was $426 and the average monthly HUD expenditure per voucher holder was $1,006. The average utility allowance across all voucher recipients is $134.
1. This Picture of Subsidized Households data field is the average wait time of those who received a voucher in the preceding 12 months. Due to special voucher programs like VASH, recent waiting list purges, or waiting list preferences the average wait time can vary significantly from one year to the next and it is entirely possible many current applicants on the waiting list have been waiting for assistance for far longer.