Bernalillo County, New Mexico Section 8 Voucher Waiting List

The Bernalillo County Housing Department (BCHD) last accepted Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher waiting list applications for Bernalillo County from December 20, 2022, until June 23, 2023. There is no notice when this waiting list will reopen.

To apply while the waitlist was open, applicants were required to complete the online application.

This waiting list has the following preferences:

• Federal Disaster Preference (7 pts): The PHA offers a preference to families displaced as a result of a federal declared disaster.
• Insufficient Program Funding Preference (6 pts): The PHA offers a preference to families that have been terminated from its HCV program due to insufficient program funding.
• Homeless Preference (5 pts): The PHA offers a preference to families who are certified as homeless (PHA’s definition of homeless) and referred by PHA approved entities.
• Working Family Preference (includes families where head AND spouse/cohead are elderly or disabled) (4 pts):
• Veterans Preference (4 pts): The PHA offers a preference to applicants who served in the active military, naval, or air service of the United States who received other than a dishonorable discharge.
• Disabled Preference (4 pts): The PHA offers a preference to any family that includes a person with disabilities.

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

For more information, visit the BCHD website.

Sources: This information was verified by the BCHA Housing page on August 8, 2023.