Crook, Deschutes, and Jefferson County, Oregon Section 8 Voucher Waiting List

Housing Works will accept Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher waiting list is currently closed. It last accepted applications from January 13, 2025 at 8:00 am, until January 17, 2025 at 5:00 pm PT. The waiting list was previously open in January 2024 and January 2023.

To apply while the waiting list is open, applicants completed the online application.

This waiting list had the following preferences:

• Local residency
  • Applicants that reside in Crook, Deschutes or Jefferson Counties or whose household includes a family member who works, or has been notified that they are hired to work, in Crook, Deschutes or Jefferson Counties, will be served before those residing outside this area.
• Mainstream preference is specifically for non-elderly persons with disabilities who are transitioning out of institutional or other segregated settings, at serious risk of institutionalization, homeless or at risk of becoming homeless.
• Single applicants who are elderly or disabled will be given a selection priority over all “other single” applicants. “Other singles” denotes a one-person household in which the individual member is not elderly or disabled. Such applicants will be placed on the waiting list in accordance with any other preferences to which they are entitled, but they cannot be selected for assistance before any one-person elderly or disabled family.

Selected applicants will be placed on the waiting list by random lottery, weighed by order of preferences.

For more information, visit the Housing Works website.

Sources: This information was verified by the Housing Works Website on January 3, 2025 by Dave Layfield.