Learn more about Amherst Housing Authority.
This housing authority participates in the Massachusetts Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Centralized Waiting List, which is a partnership between most of the housing authorities in Massachusetts. 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 Massachusetts Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Centralized Waiting List is currently open.
The Massachusetts Centralized waiting list will accept applications from January 6, 2003, until further notice.
There are three ways to apply during the opening period:
Once the paper application has been completed, it can be mailed or hand delivered to any participating housing authority. Participating housing authority address information can be found here.
Income limit information can be found 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: Activated military personnel to Persian Gulf; Board of Health condemnation; Disabled; Displaced by hate crime or reprisal, Displaced by landlord non-renewal; Displaced by natural disaster; Displaced by public action; Displaced by domestic violence; Elderly (62+); Near elderly (55+); Extremely low income; Health disability affecting housing need; Homeless; Participant in Metro Program in Wayland school; Rent burdened 50% of income; Rent burdened 40% of income; one-person family; substandard housing; tenants of Project-Based units; clients for Project-Based units; Veteran; Working. Further explanation of each preference can be found here.
Selected applicants will be placed on the waiting list by date and time the application has been received, by order of preferences.
For more information, visit the website here, or contact a participating housing authority listed here.
Sources: This information was verified by the Massachusetts Centralized page on December 28, 2022.
Applicants who need help completing the application due to disability can make a reasonable accommodation request to the housing authority via 1-877-868-0040.
Last Updated on 02/23/2024.
The Amherst Housing Authority (AHA) Seventy Amherst Apartments waiting list is currently closed. Applications for Studio,1, and 2-Bedroom Local Action Units Program units were last accepted on August 27, 2019. There is no notice of when this waiting list will reopen.
To apply during the opening period, applicants were required to open and print the application online.
Once the application was completed, it must have been postmarked by August 27, 2019, and mailed to The Amherst Housing Authority.
This waiting list had the following preferences:
Selected applicants were placed on the waiting list by random lottery, weighed by order of preferences. Lottery will be held September 4, 2019 at 9:00 am ET.
For more information, visit the AHA website.
Last Updated on 02/23/2024.
33 Kellogg Avenue, Amherst, MA (413) 256-0206
Amherst Housing Authority provides affordable housing for up to 428 low and moderate income households through its Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) and Public Housing programs..
Low-income housing managed by Amherst Housing Authority is located in Amherst, MA.
Households with a Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher managed by this housing authority must rent within its jurisdiction.