Columbus, Georgia Section 8 Voucher Waiting List

The Housing Authority of Columbus Georgia (HACG) last accepted Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher waiting list applications from May 20, 2024, until May 24, 2024. There is no notice when this waiting list will reopen.

The maximum income limits for each household size were as followed:

• 1 Persons $24,700 | 5 Persons $38,100
• 2 Persons $28,200 | 6 Persons $40,900
• 3 Persons $31,750 | 7 Person $43,750
• 4 Persons $35,250 | 8 Persons $46,550

This waiting list had the following preferences: 

• First Priority: Families of federally declared disasters who are eligible for the program.
• Second Priority: Families who are considered to be displaced if they are required to vacate housing as a result of federal, state, or local government action related to code enforcement, public improvement, or development programs. This includes families who have been Section 8 Project-based Voucher residents at properties converted to Section 8 housing assistance under the Rental Assistance Demonstration (“RAD”) program and who were relocated to Public Housing or Project-based Rental Assistance as a result of improvements being made to those properties.
• Third Priority: Families who are residing in a qualified census tract that is in a proposed redevelopment area.
• Fourth Priority: Families who are residing in properties undergoing a Rental Assistance Demonstration conversion who are being displaced as a result of modernization activities and/or those that are at 60% and up to 80% Area Median Income and are considered over income for tax credit properties.
• Fifth Priority: Families who are currently utilizing a project-based voucher and wish to convert it to a tenant-based voucher under the mobility option. HACG will use the Alternative Mobility option which allows up to 75% of the current year turnover of project-based vouchers to be converted to tenant-based vouchers.

Selected applicants were placed on the waiting list by date and time the application was received, weighed by order of preferences.

To apply while the waitlist was open, applicants were require to call the HACG.

For more information, visit the HACG website.

Sources: This information was verified by the HACG Public Notice on May 3, 2024.