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Emergency Section 8 HUD Housing Choice Vouchers.
Emergency Section 8 HUD Housing Choice Vouchers.
Emergency Section 8 HUD Housing Choice Vouchers.
Emergency section 8 is also called a priority list. The determination is based on a point
scale, with a higher score meaning the applicant may be placed towards the top of the wait list. The
person seeking the rent voucher also needs to have a home available that meets their preference. All
of the following groups of individuals may be able to get a voucher or put to the top of a waiting list
when the next voucher or apartment becomes available in their community.
Senior citizens and the elderly, and there may be supportive housing offered too that offer onsite
medical care.
Disabled, whether mental or physical.
Veterans and service members.
All those situations may apply. A local HUD qualified public housing authority can provide more
information on the terms and conditions as well as how to apply. However, the most likely situation in
which a emergency housing choice voucher is given will be if the applicant is a very low income senior
citizen or disabled person. The Department of Housing and Urban Development makes more efforts to
get them to the top of waiting list, if their housing unit preference becomes available.
To apply for an emergency section 8 voucher, and to try to be given priority, call a
local public housing authority in your town or county.
By Jon McNamara