South Carolina State Housing Finance and Development Authority

Closed: Clarendon, Colleton, Dorchester, Fairfield, Kershaw, Lee and Lexington County, South Carolina Section 8 Voucher

The South Carolina State Housing Finance and Development Authority (SC Housing) last accepted Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher waiting list applications from February 5, 2024, until February 7, 2024. This waiting list was last open in April, 2021. There is no notice of when this waiting list will reopen.

There were five ways to apply during the opening period:

1. Complete the online application.
2. Send an email to the SC Housing.
3. Call the SC Housing
4. Send a fax to the SC Housing.
5. Send a written request to SC Housing.
6. Lee County Applicants Only: SC Housing accepted in-person applications only for Lee County.

This waiting list had the following preferences:

• Veteran Preference: This preference is available to a family whose Head of household, spouse, or co-head (or surviving spouse thereof) is a person who has served in the active military, naval, or air service (full time duty in the Armed Forces, other than active duty for training), and who was discharged or released there from under conditions other than dishonorable.
• Disability Preference: This preference is extended to disabled persons or families with a disabled member as defined by HUD (42 U.S.C. 423(d) and 42 U.S.C. 15502(8)). Proof of disability will be required at time of eligibility determination.
  • Note: A person, whose claim has been denied by the Social Security Administration, is not eligible for the Disability preference, even if the decision is under appeal.
• Excessive Wait Preference: At the discretion of the Director, Housing Choice Voucher Program, preference status will be granted to all applicants who have been on the waiting list for a specified number of years. The Director will specify the number of years considered “excessive.”
• Victim Protection Preference: At the discretion of the Director, Housing Choice Voucher Program, applicants will be moved to the top of the waiting list if they live in assisted housing and their life is threatened because they are a victim of or witness to a crime and are cooperating with law enforcement.
• Federally-Declared Disaster Preference: At the discretion of the Director, Housing Choice Voucher Program, applicants will be moved to the top of the waiting list if they have been involuntarily displaced in Federally-declared disaster areas within the PHA’s jurisdiction.
• The PHA will offer a preference to any family that has been terminated from its HCV program due to insufficient program funding.

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 SC Housing website.

Sources: This information was verified by SC Housing on January 19, 2024.

Service Area

This waiting list is for Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher rental assistance in Clarendon, Colleton, Dorchester, Fairfield, Kershaw, Lee and Lexington County, South Carolina.

Last Updated on 02/07/2024.

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