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Hialeah Housing Authority is a housing authority that participates in the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher (HCV), and Public Housing programs.
Hialeah Housing Authority offers Public Housing and Section 8 Housing rental assistance in Hialeah.
Waiting List | Status |
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Hialeah, Florida Housing Choice Voucher | Closed |
3, 4, and 5-Bedroom, Public Housing | Closed |
The Hialeah Housing Authority (HHA) Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher waiting list is currently closed. Applications were last accepted from June 21, 2021, until June 28, 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. Applicants who submit more than one application were disqualified.
This waiting list had the following preferences:
It is not known how applicants were placed on the waiting list. Only applicants selected to the waiting list received notification from the HHA.
For more information, visit the HHA website.
Sources: This information was verified by the HHA on June 21, 2021.
This waiting list is for Housing Choice Voucher rental assistance in Hialeah, Florida.
Last Updated on 10/21/2021.
The Hialeah Housing Authority (HHA) waiting list for 3, 4, 5-Bedroom Public Housing apartments is currently closed. Applications were last accepted from September 30, 2019, until October 4, 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.
Preferences have not yet been confirmed.
250 applicants were placed on the 3-Bedroom waiting list, 20 applicants will be placed on the 4-Bedroom waiting list, and 10 applicants will be placed on the 5-Bedroom waiting list; all by random lottery, weighed by order of preferences.
For more information, visit the HHA website.
Last Updated on 11/30/2019.
More information about Hialeah Housing Authority can be found on its website at https://www.hialeahhousing.org/index.php/en/.
Representatives of Hialeah Housing Authority may be available by phone at (305) 888-9744. Unless otherwise noted above, applications will not be provided or accepted by phone.
As of 08/14/2022, it is not known if Hialeah 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, Hialeah Housing Authority manages 4,860 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 | Family Unification | Tenant Protection | Ported Out | VASH | Non-Elderly Disabled | |
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Vouchers | 4,287 | 112 | 67 | 107 | 10 | 277 |
Monthly Cost Per Voucher | $873 | $875 | $875 | $856 | $875 | $875 |
Monthly Cost | $3,742,756 | $97,984 | $58,615 | $91,636 | $8,749 | $242,336 |
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 787 vouchers in the past year. The average voucher holder has received housing benefits for 9 years and 5 months. According to the 2016 PSH database, persons who were issued a voucher in the preceding 12 months waited an average of 40 months on the waiting list1.
According to 2016 Q4 Picture of Subsidized Households data, the average voucher household contains 1.6 persons and has a household income of $11,752 per year. 98% of households were very low income (VLI) and 86% were extremely low income (ELI). 12% of households had wages as a major source of income, 0% of households had welfare (TANF, General Assistance or Public Assistance) as their primary source of income, and 87% 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, 14% were headed by a person 25 to 49 years old, 13% were headed by a person 51 to 60 years old, and 72% were headed by a person 62 years old or older. In addition, 11% of households were headed by a person 85 years old or older.
13% of households included children, 2% of which had two adults in the household. 11% of households with children have a female head of household. 75% of all households were headed by a female.
100% of all voucher households were headed by minorities with 13% of all heads of households being Black and 5% being Hispanic.
Of all households participating in the Hialeah Housing Authority Housing Choice Voucher program, 32% include at least one person with a disability. 45% of households with a head of household 61 years or less were headed by a person with a disability. 40% of households headed by someone 62 or older were headed by a person with a disability.
66% of voucher holders reside in a home with zero or 1 bedroom, 26% with 2 bedrooms and 8% with 3 or more bedrooms. 11% 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 Hialeah Housing Authority voucher holders in 2016 was $318 and the average monthly HUD expenditure per voucher holder was $841. The average utility allowance across all voucher recipients is $100.
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.