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Home Forward is a housing authority that participates in the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher (HCV), Public Housing, Moving to Work, Section 8 Project-Based Voucher (PBV), and Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD) programs.
Home Forward serves Multnomah County.
The Home Forward (HF) Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher waiting list is currently closed. It was last open for five days in September, 2016; and before that in November, 2012. 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 has the following preferences: Live, work, hired to work or receiving education or training in Multnomah County, OR.
3,000 applicants were placed on the waiting list by random lottery, by order of preferences.
For more information, visit the HF website here.
Last Updated on 04/11/2019.
The Home Forward (HF) Mainstream (Non-Elderly Disabled) Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher waiting list is currently closed. It was last open for five days in March, 2019. There is no notice of when this waiting list will reopen.
Please note: According to HF, "You may be eligible for Home Forward’s Mainstream Voucher waiting list preference if:
To apply during the opening period, applicants were required to download and print application online.
Once the paper application was completed, it must have been either:
There were no preferences.
Selected applicants were placed on the waiting list by random lottery.
For more information, visit the HF website here.
Last Updated on 05/18/2019.
The Home Forward (HF) Section 8 Project-Based Voucher waiting list for 2-Bedrooms apartments, and Rental Assistance Demonstration waiting list for 3-Bedroom apartments at New Columbia Apartments is currently closed. Applications were last accepted from June 7, 2021 until June 21, 2021. There is no notice of when this waiting list will reopen.
To apply during the opening period, applicants were required to print the paper application.
Once the application was completed, it must have been either:
Preferences have not yet been confirmed.
It was not known how applicants will be placed on the waiting list.
For more information, visit the Home Forward website.
Sources: This information was verified by the Home Forward public notice on June 14, 2021.
This waiting list is for rental assistance in Multnomah County, Oregon.
Last Updated on 06/21/2021.
Home Forward (HF) Public Housing waiting list is currently closed. It was last open for various communities for three days in June, 2016. 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 may have applied to as many open waiting lists as they liked.
These waiting lists have preferences, and the specific preferences vary by each property.
Applicants were placed on the waiting list by random lottery, after sorting preferences.
It is estimated the waiting list length will be five years.
For more information, visit the HF website here.
Last Updated on 03/15/2019.
More information about Home Forward can be found on its website at http://homeforward.org/.
Representatives of Home Forward may be available by phone at (503) 802-8300. Unless otherwise noted above, applications will not be provided or accepted by phone.
As of 05/26/2022, it is not known if Home Forward 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, Home Forward manages 10,268 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:
Family Unification | Tenant Protection | Moving To Work | Ported Out | VASH | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Vouchers | 200 | 1,174 | 6,622 | 119 | 713 |
Monthly Cost Per Voucher | $1,032 | $803 | $843 | $944 | $760 |
Monthly Cost | $206,369 | $942,322 | $5,579,653 | $112,303 | $542,039 |
According to the 2016 Q4 Picture of Subsidized Households database, the housing authority's voucher program has an annual turnover of 10% having issued approximately 906 vouchers in the past year. The average voucher holder has received housing benefits for 8 years and 9 months. According to the 2016 PSH database, persons who were issued a voucher in the preceding 12 months waited an average of -1 months on the waiting list1.
According to 2016 Q4 Picture of Subsidized Households data, the average voucher household contains 2.2 persons and has a household income of $12,184 per year. 97% of households were very low income (VLI) and 82% were extremely low income (ELI). 22% of households had wages as a major source of income, 9% of households had welfare (TANF, General Assistance or Public Assistance) as their primary source of income, and 61% 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, 44% were headed by a person 25 to 49 years old, 28% were headed by a person 51 to 60 years old, and 26% were headed by a person 62 years old or older. In addition, 1% of households were headed by a person 85 years old or older.
35% of households included children, 8% of which had two adults in the household. 30% of households with children have a female head of household. 66% of all households were headed by a female.
48% of all voucher households were headed by minorities with 33% of all heads of households being Black and 1% being Hispanic.
Of all households participating in the Home Forward Housing Choice Voucher program, 28% include at least one person with a disability. 46% of households with a head of household 61 years or less were headed by a person with a disability. 71% of households headed by someone 62 or older were headed by a person with a disability.
42% of voucher holders reside in a home with zero or 1 bedroom, 34% with 2 bedrooms and 24% with 3 or more bedrooms. 16% 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 Home Forward voucher holders in 2016 was $412 and the average monthly HUD expenditure per voucher holder was $723. The average utility allowance across all voucher recipients is $148.
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.