Housing Works

405 Southwest 6th Street
Redmond, Deschutes County, Oregon 97756

Housing Works is a Public Housing Agency in Redmond, Oregon that participates in the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher (HCV), Family Self-sufficiency, Veteran Affairs Supportive Housing (VASH), Mainstream Voucher, and Family Unification Program (FUP) programs.

Housing Works serves Crook County, Deschutes County and Jefferson County.

Waiting List Statuses
Waiting ListStatus
Crook, Deschutes, and Jefferson County, Oregon Housing Choice Voucher Closed

Other Housing Works Waiting Lists

Closed: Crook, Deschutes, and Jefferson County, Oregon Housing Choice Voucher Waiting List

How To Apply to the Housing Choice Voucher Waiting List

The Housing Works (HW) Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher waiting list is currently closed. It was last open for five days in January, 2018; and before that for five days in January, 2018, for five days in January, 2017, for five days in January, 2016, and in 2015. There is no notice of when this waiting list will reopen, but it tends to reopen in January each year.

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

This waiting list had the following preferences: Residents of Crook, Deschutes, and Jefferson County, Oregon. Also, one person household applicants who are Disabled or Elderly will be given a selection priority over all other single member household applicants.

Selected applicants were placed on the waiting list by random lottery, by order of preferences.

For more information, visit the HW Voucher page here.

Last Updated on 05/22/2019.

About Housing Works

More information about Housing Works can be found on its website at http://www.housing-works.org/. Representatives of Housing Works may be available by phone at (541) 923-1018. Unless otherwise noted applications will not be provided or accepted by phone.

HCV Portability Status

As of 05/23/2019, Housing Works is absorbing for Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher port-in requests. Learn more about porting Housing Choice Vouchers to a new area here.

Office Hours

Day Hours
Monday 8:00am-5:00pm
Tuesday 8:00am-5:00pm
Wednesday 8:00am-5:00pm
Thursday 8:00am-5:00pm
Friday 8:00am-5:00pm

About the Housing Works Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program

As of the most recent VMS report, Housing Works manages 1,163 active Housing Choice Vouchers.

The following is a summary of the types of vouchers managed and the monthly costs of each:

Standard Homeownership Tenant Protection Ported Out VASH Non-Elderly Disabled
Vouchers 841 18 22 15 72 191
Monthly Cost Per Voucher $551 $513 $529 $755 $407 $461
Monthly Cost $463,799 $9,235 $11,638 $11,320 $29,285 $88,140

Household Characteristics of Voucher Holders for Housing Works

Waiting List and Tenancy

According to the 2016 Q4 Picture of Subsidized Households database, the housing authority's voucher program has an annual turnover of 12% having issued approximately 100 vouchers in the past year. The average voucher holder has received housing benefits for 7 years and 6 months. According to the 2016 PSH database, persons who were issued a voucher in the preceding 12 months waited an average of 9 months on the waiting list1.

Income Characteristics

According to 2016 Q4 Picture of Subsidized Households data, the average voucher household contains 2.1 persons and has a household income of $13,705 per year. 89% of households were very low income (VLI) and 61% were extremely low income (ELI). 27% of households had wages as a major source of income, 3% of households had welfare (TANF, General Assistance or Public Assistance) as their primary source of income, and 65% of households had other income (Social Security, Disability or Pension) as their major source of income.

Heads of Household Characteristics

2% of households were headed by a person 24 years old or less, 51% were headed by a person 25 to 49 years old, 24% were headed by a person 51 to 60 years old, and 24% were headed by a person 62 years old or older. In addition, 2% of households were headed by a person 85 years old or older.

39% of households included children, 6% of which had two adults in the household. 33% of households with children have a female head of household. 74% of all households were headed by a female.

9% of all voucher households were headed by minorities with 2% of all heads of households being Black and 0% being Hispanic.

Of all households participating in the Housing Works Housing Choice Voucher program, 27% include at least one person with a disability. 49% of households with a head of household 61 years or less were headed by a person with a disability. 58% of households headed by someone 62 or older were headed by a person with a disability.

Bedroom Size and Overhousing

22% of voucher holders reside in a home with zero or 1 bedroom, 44% with 2 bedrooms and 34% with 3 or more bedrooms. 32% of voucher recipients are considered overhoused, meaning they occupy a rental unit larger than their family size requires.

Rent, Assistance, and Utility Allowances

The average monthly tenant contribution to rent by Housing Works voucher holders in 2016 was $368 and the average monthly HUD expenditure per voucher holder was $662. The average utility allowance across all voucher recipients is $113.



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.