Clallam and Jefferson County, Washington Section 8 Voucher Waiting List

The Peninsula Housing Authority (PHA) Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher waiting list is currently closed. Applications were last accepted from January 27, 2020, until January 31, 2020. There is no notice of when this waiting list will reopen.

There were three ways to apply during the opening period:

1. Print the paper application online.
2. Pick up an application from one of two locations.
   1. The Olympic Community Action Program (OlyCAP), located at 823 Commerce Loop, Port Townsend WA 98368 beginning January 27, 2020.
3.  Call to request an application by mail.

Once the application was completed, it must have been postmarked between January 27, 2020 and January 31, 2020, and mailed.

This waiting list had the following preferences:

• Homeless
• Involuntarily displaced by either government action or natural disaster and whose residence has been deemed uninhabitable by the Red Cross, or other government agency.
• Head, spouse, co-head, is employed at least 20 hours per week and/or attending school disaster and whose residence has been deemed uninhabitable on a full-time basis. Families where the head, spouse or sole member is a person age 62 or older, or is a person with disabilities will also be given the benefit of this preference.

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

• 175 applicants were placed on the Clallam County waiting list, and 100 applicants were placed on the Jefferson County waiting list.

For more information, visit the PHA website.

Sources: This information was verified by the PHA website, as of January 21, 2020.