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Fitchburg Housing Authority

Waiting Lists

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Open: Massachusetts Housing Choice Voucher Centralized

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:

  1. Complete the online application available here. 
  2. Download and print the application online. Select the link titled "Preliminary Application" in your native language.
  3. Contact a participating housing authority request an application by mail. Participating housing authority contact information can be found here.

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.

Reasonable Accommodation

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.

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Closed: Alternative Housing Voucher Program (AHVP) Senior and Disabled

The Fitchburg Housing Authority (FHA) last accepted Alternative Housing Voucher Program (AHVP) waiting list applications from February 16, 2021, until March 5, 2021.

Please note: According to the FHA notice "AHVP is a state mobile voucher subsidy for households with at least one member who is both under the age of 60 and disabled. All AHVP vouchers are one bedroom, except by reasonable accommodation."

There were three to ways to apply while the waitlist was open:

  1. Complete the online application.
  2. Print the paper application.
  3. Pick up a paper application from the FHA office.
  4. Call the FHA to request an application by mail.
  5. Email the FHA to request an application by mail.

Once the paper application was completed, it was to be:

  1. Mailed to the FHA and postmarked by March 5, 2021.

This waitlist had the following income limits:

  • 1-person household: $47,850 | 2-person household: $54,650

Preferences have not been confirmed.

Selected applicants were placed on the waiting list by random lottery, by order of preferences.

For more information, visit the FHA website.

Sources: This information was verified by the FHA public notice on August 21, 2023.

Service Area

This waiting list is for Other Senior and Disabled rental assistance in Fitchburg, Massachusetts.

Last Updated on 08/22/2023.

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About Fitchburg Housing Authority

50 Day Street, Fitchburg, MA | Visit Website | (978) 342-5222

Fitchburg Housing Authority provides affordable housing for up to 269 low and moderate income households through its Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) and Public Housing programs..

Housing Authority Jurisdiction

Low-income housing managed by Fitchburg Housing Authority is located in Fitchburg, MA.

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