Maine Centralized Section 8 HCV Waiting List

Waiting Lists

Learn more about Maine Centralized Section 8 HCV Waiting List.

Open: Maine Housing Choice Voucher Centralized

This housing authority participates in the Maine Centralized Section 8 HCV Waiting List, which is a partnership between all 20 housing authorities in Maine. Applicants submit one application to apply to a centralized waiting list. Selected applicants will be placed on the centralized waiting list, and will be under consideration for every participating housing authority.

The Maine Centralized Section 8 HCV Waiting List is currently open.

The Maine Centralized waiting list will accept applications from April 2013, until further notice.

There are four ways to apply:

  1. Complete the online application available here.
  2. Download and print the application online.
  3. Contact one of the participating housing authorities to request an application by mail. Contact information for all participating housing authorities can be found here.
  4. Pick up a pre-application at the office of a participating housing authority. Address information for all participating housing authorities can be found here.

Once the application has been completed, it can be mailed, faxed or submitted in person to any participating housing authority. Contact information for all participating housing authorities can be viewed here.

The waiting list will be sorted differently by each housing authority according to its own preferences.

Participating housing authorities may have any of the following preferences: Disabled, elderly, family with minor children or dependents, where you live, veteran, displaced by natural or national disaster, chronically homeless, at where you work, non-subsidized, local full-time student, working, non-elderly or disabled single person family, Tedford Shelter resident. A full explanation of all preferences can be viewed here.

For more information, visit the website here, or contact a participating housing authority listed here.

Sources: This information was verified by the Maine Centralized page on December 28, 2022.

Reasonable Accommodation

Applicants who need help completing the application due to disability can make a reasonable accommodation request to the housing authority via one of the participating housing authorities listed here: http://mainesection8centralwaitlist.org/dup/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/CWL-Participating-Housing-Authorities-REVISED-7-6-2020.pdf.

Last Updated on 02/23/2024.

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About Maine Centralized Section 8 HCV Waiting List

Maine Centralized Section 8 HCV Waiting List provides affordable housing for up to 0 low and moderate income households through its Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) program..

Housing Authority Jurisdiction

Low-income housing managed by Maine Centralized Section 8 HCV Waiting List is located in Maine

Households with a Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher managed by this housing authority must rent within its jurisdiction.

The following agencies are participants in the Maine Centralized Section 8 HCV Waiting List:

Agency Serves
Auburn Housing Authority Auburn
Augusta Housing Authority Augusta
Bangor Housing Bangor, Glenburn, Hampden, Veazie
Bath Housing Authority Arrowsic, Bath, Georgetown, Phippsburg, West Bath, Woolwich
Biddeford Housing Authority Biddeford
Brunswick Housing Authority Brunswick
Caribou Housing Authority Caribou
Ellsworth Housing Authority Ellsworth
Fort Fairfield Housing Authority Fort Fairfield
Housing Authority of the City of Brewer Brewer
Housing Authority of the City of Old Town Old Town
Lewiston Housing Authority Lewiston
Maine State Housing Authority Maine
Portland Housing Authority Cape Elizabeth, Cumberland, Falmouth, Freeport, Gorham, Gray, North Yarmouth, Old Orchard Beach, Portland, Scarborough, Westbrook, Windham, Yarmouth
Presque Isle Housing Authority Presque Isle
Sanford Housing Authority Sanford
South Portland Housing Authority Cape Elizabeth, Old Orchard Beach, Scarborough, South Portland
Van Buren Housing Authority Van Buren
Waterville Housing Authority Oakland, Sidney, Waterville, Winslow
Westbrook Housing Authority Acton, Alfred, Arundel, Baldwin, Berwick, Biddeford, Bridgton, Brunswick, Brunswick Station, Buxton, Cape Elizabeth, Cape Neddick, Casco, Chebeague Island, Cornish, Cousins Island, Cumberland, Cumberland Center, Dayton, Eliot, Falmouth, Falmouth Foreside, Freeport, Frye Island, Gorham, Gray, Harpswell, Harrison, Hollis, Kennebunk, Kennebunkport, Kittery, Kittery Point, Lake Arrowhead, Lebanon, Limerick, Limington, Little Falls, Littlejohn Island, Long Island, Lyman, Naples, New Gloucester, Newfield, North Berwick, North Windham, North Yarmouth, Ogunquit, Old Orchard Beach, Parsonsfield, Portland, Pownal, Raymond, Saco, Sanford, Scarborough, Sebago, Shapleigh, South Berwick, South Eliot, South Portland, South Sanford, South Windham, Springvale, Standish, Steep Falls, Waterboro, Wells, West Kennebunk, Westbrook, Windham, Yarmouth, York, York Harbor