SECTION EIGHT

Submitted by ub on

200K new families in NYC were recently added to the city’s Section 8 waitlist, thousands of New Yorkers are now waiting to GODOT.

They are wondering just how long they’ll be waiting to secure the long awaited lottery outcome for subsidized housing,hou 

Last week, the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) announced that 200,000 households have been randomly selected via lottery for the city’s new Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) waitlist. Section 8 HCV is a federally funded program administered by NYCHA that provides rental subsidies to low-income families to rent apartments in the private market.

Lottery applicants are currently being notified via email as to whether they made the waitlist, with hard copies of their notifications being distributed by mail in the coming weeks.

Those lucky enough to have been selected will be able to create an online profile and track the status of their application by logging into NYCHA’s Self-Service Portal.

Selected households will then be contacted regarding next steps in the application process, which includes submitting all necessary documents, including proof of income.

https://www.nyc.gov/site/nycha/section-8/about-section-8.page