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Dallas Housing Authority is a Public Housing Agency that participates in the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher (HCV), Public Housing, and Section 8 Project-Based Voucher (PBV) programs. As of August 10th, 2020, Dallas Housing Authority has 3 waiting lists that are open now or opening soon.
The City of Dallas; and Collin, Dallas, Denton, Ellis, Kaufman, Rockwall, and Tarrant County, Texas Housing Choice Voucher Waiting List is open indefinitely. The Project-Based Voucher Waiting List is open indefinitely. The Public Housing Waiting List is open indefinitely.
Dallas Housing Authority serves Collin County, Dallas County, Denton County, Ellis County, Kaufman County, Rockwall County and Tarrant County.
Waiting List Statuses
| Waiting List | Status |
|---|
| City of Dallas; and Collin, Dallas, Denton, Ellis, Kaufman, Rockwall, and Tarrant County, Texas Housing Choice Voucher |
Open Until Further Notice |
| Project-Based Voucher |
Open Until Further Notice |
| Public Housing |
Open Until Further Notice |
Open Dallas Housing Authority Waiting Lists
Due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, some waiting list openings may be postponed until further notice. Visit the housing authority's website for the latest on its current operations, if one is available. If there is no information online, contact the housing authority directly. Due to a high volume of calls and modified office hours in most areas, it may take days or weeks to get a response.
Dallas Housing Authority Website: https://dhantx.com.
Dallas Housing Authority Phone: (214) 951-8300.
Open Until Further Notice:
City of Dallas; and Collin, Dallas, Denton, Ellis, Kaufman, Rockwall, and Tarrant County, Texas Housing Choice Voucher Waiting List
Please Note: Due to the decentralized nature of affordable housing information, the information about this waiting list may be out of date.
How To Apply to the Housing Choice Voucher Waiting List
The Dallas Housing Authority (DHA) Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher waiting list is currently open. Applications are being accepted from January 21, 2020 at 9:00 am CT, until further notice.
Please note: This opening also includes the Walker Settlement Voucher Program and the Mainstream Housing Choice Voucher Program. According to the DHA, "Walker Settlement Vouchers are allocated for Class Members only (African-Americans), who agree to live in a 'high opportunity' area with low poverty that is not a minority neighborhood. The Mainstream Housing Voucher Program is for non-elderly persons who have a disability and are between the age of 18 and 62, who are homeless or at-risk of homelessness or institutionalization."
To apply during the opening period, complete the online application here.
This waiting list has the following preferences:
- Families involuntarily displaced from their current housing due to governmental action or federally designated natural disaster.
- Individuals who need and qualify for congregate housing in an assisted living facility.
- Families who have been made homeless by documented domestic violence; and individuals graduating from or “aging out” of the foster care program administered by the Texas Department of Protective and Regulatory Services, families completing their tenure in transitional housing (under the Continuum of Care), chronically homeless individuals and persons; and currently or formerly homeless applicants who are ready to move to project or tenant based voucher housing providing permanent supportive housing to the homeless;
- Families that include children between the age of 3 and 10, only as it relates to the participation of a national study which DHA is a party to.
Selected applicants will be placed on the waiting list by random lottery, weighed by order of preferences.
For more information, read the DHA public notice, or visit the DHA website.
Sources: This information was verified by the DHA website, as of January 20, 2020.
Service Area
This waiting list is for rental assistance in City of Dallas; and Collin, Dallas, Denton, Ellis, Kaufman, Rockwall, and Tarrant County, Texas.
Reasonable Accommodation
Applicants who need help completing the application due to disability can make a reasonable accommodation request to the housing authority via contacting the DHA at 3939 N. Hampton Rd, Dallas, Texas 75212 or by telephone by calling (214) 951-8348 or TTY: (800) 735-2989, (214) 951-8367, or by email at 504ADA@dhadal.com.
Next Steps
Learn more about what happens after the application is submitted.
Last Updated on 01/25/2020.
Open Until Further Notice:
Project-Based Voucher Waiting List
Please Note: Due to the decentralized nature of affordable housing information, the information about this waiting list may be out of date.
How To Apply to the Project-Based Voucher Waiting List
The Dallas Housing Authority (DHA) waiting list for Section 8 Project-Based Voucher apartments is currently open. Applications are being accepted from December 11, 2017 at 9:00 am CT, until further notice.
To apply during the opening period, complete the online application here.
This waiting list has the following preferences:
- Education Preference
- Applicants who are enrolled in and who are active students in a trade school or a college or university with a minimum of 9 credit hours per semester
- Homeless
- This preference shall be granted to vulnerable homeless individuals and families as identified by a DHA approved agency
- Working Family
- This preference is for a family or individual that has a working adult member working at least 30 hour per week for 6 consecutive months prior to admission with no period of unemployment for than 2 weeks.
It is not known how selected applicants will be placed on the waiting list, weighed by order of preferences.
For more information, visit the DHA website.
Sources: This information was verified by the DHA website, as of January 20, 2020.
Reasonable Accommodation
Applicants who need help completing the application due to disability can make a reasonable accommodation request to the housing authority via (214) 640-5605.
IMPORTANT:
This is not the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher program. Section 8 Project-Based Voucher tenants are required to live in a specific apartment community or scattered site. After one year of occupancy, a Project-Based Voucher tenant may request to be placed on a waiting list to receive the next available Housing Choice Voucher or similar tenant-based rental assistance.
Last Updated on 01/20/2020.
Open Until Further Notice:
Public Housing Waiting List
Please Note: Due to the decentralized nature of affordable housing information, the information about this waiting list may be out of date.
How To Apply to the Public Housing Waiting List
The Dallas Housing Authority (DHA) waiting list for Public Housing apartments is currently open. Applications are being accepted from December 11, 2017 at 9:00 am CT, until further notice.
To apply during the opening period, complete the online application here.
This waiting list has the following preferences:
- Education Preference
- Applicants who are enrolled in and who are active students in a trade school or a college or university with a minimum of 9 credit hours per semester
- Homeless
- This preference shall be granted to vulnerable homeless individuals and families as identified by a DHA approved agency
- Working Family
- This preference is for a family or individual that has a working adult member working at least 30 hour per week for 6 consecutive months prior to admission with no period of unemployment for than 2 weeks.
It is not known how selected applicants will be placed on the waiting list, weighed by order of preferences.
For more information, visit the DHA website.
Sources: This information was verified by the DHA website, as of January 20, 2020.
Reasonable Accommodation
Applicants who need help completing the application due to disability can make a reasonable accommodation request to the housing authority via (214) 640-5605.
Next Steps
Learn more about what happens after the application is submitted.
Last Updated on 01/20/2020.
About Dallas Housing Authority
More information about Dallas Housing Authority can be found on its website at https://dhantx.com.
Representatives of Dallas Housing Authority may be available by phone at (214) 951-8300. Unless otherwise noted above, applications will not be provided or accepted by phone.
About the Dallas Housing Authority Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program
As of the HUDs most recent Voucher Management System report, Dallas Housing Authority manages 15,431 active Housing Choice Vouchers.
The following is a summary of the types of vouchers managed and the monthly costs of each as of December 31st, 2019:
|
Standard | Homeownership | Family Unification | Ported Out | VASH | Non-Elderly Disabled | Litigation |
| Vouchers |
12,962 | 98 | 73 | 39 | 714 | 73 | 1,472 |
| Monthly Cost Per Voucher |
$860 | $1,004 | $1,113 | $395 | $667 | $630 | $1,386 |
| Monthly Cost |
$11,151,882 | $98,423 | $81,282 | $15,386 | $475,949 | $45,981 | $2,040,399 |
Household Characteristics of Voucher Holders for Dallas Housing Authority
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 10% having issued approximately 1,713 vouchers in the past year. The average voucher holder has received housing benefits for 9 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 14 months on the waiting list1.
Income Characteristics
According to 2016 Q4 Picture of Subsidized Households data, the average voucher household contains 2.4 persons and has a household income of $13,788 per year. 94% of households were very low income (VLI) and 74% were extremely low income (ELI). 33% 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 66% of households had other income (Social Security, Disability or Pension) as their major source of income.
Heads of Household Characteristics
4% of households were headed by a person 24 years old or less, 54% were headed by a person 25 to 49 years old, 22% were headed by a person 51 to 60 years old, and 20% 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.
48% of households included children, 2% of which had two adults in the household. 46% of households with children have a female head of household. 84% of all households were headed by a female.
94% of all voucher households were headed by minorities with 85% of all heads of households being Black and 1% being Hispanic.
Of all households participating in the Dallas Housing Authority Housing Choice Voucher program, 21% include at least one person with a disability. 31% of households with a head of household 61 years or less were headed by a person with a disability. 81% of households headed by someone 62 or older were headed by a person with a disability.
Bedroom Size and Overhousing
33% of voucher holders reside in a home with zero or 1 bedroom, 34% with 2 bedrooms and 33% with 3 or more bedrooms. 19% 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 Dallas Housing Authority voucher holders in 2016 was $385 and the average monthly HUD expenditure per voucher holder was $746. The average utility allowance across all voucher recipients is $137.
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.
Public Housing Apartments Operated by Dallas Housing Authority
2425 Bickers St
Dallas, Texas
4700 Country Creek Dr
Dallas, Texas
18110 Marsh Ln
Dallas, Texas
9702 W Ferris Branch Blvd
Dallas, Texas
2004-2044 Conner Drive
Dallas, Texas
4845 Elsie Faye Heggins St
Dallas, Texas
2533 Lucas Dr
Dallas, Texas
3333 Edgewood St
Dallas, Texas
3737 Munger Ave
Dallas, Texas
10025 Shoreview Road
Dallas, Texas
1544 E 8th St
Dallas, Texas
6707 Buckeye Commons Way
Dallas, Texas
1919 North Carroll Avenue
Dallas, Texas
3130 Kingbridge Street
Dallas, Texas
3020 Bickers Street
Dallas, Texas
5104 Larimore Lane
Dallas, Texas
3027 Harry Hines Boulevard
Dallas, Texas
7619 Military Parkway
Dallas, Texas
2102 Kirby Street
Dallas, Texas
2255 N. Washington Ave
Dallas, Texas
3019 Bickers Street
Dallas, Texas
18799 Hillcrest Road
Dallas, Texas
4700 Country Creek Drive
Dallas, Texas
Low Income Housing Managed by Dallas Housing Authority
3105 Peavy Rd
Dallas, Texas
3535 Munger Ave
Dallas, Texas
3400 Munger Ave
Dallas, Texas
9730 Shepherd Rd
Dallas, Texas
6655 Buckeye Commons Way
Dallas, Texas
