Shasta, Modoc, Siskiyou, and Trinity County, California Section 8 Voucher Waiting List

The Shasta County Housing Authority (SCHA) last accepted Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher waiting list applications from December 1, 2022, until January 31, 2024. There is no notice of when this waiting list will reopen.

To apply during the opening period, applicants were required to complete the online application.

Income limit information can be found here. 

This waiting list had the following preferences:

• Due to funding constraints, it may become necessary to terminate participant families from the Shasta County HCV program. In this event, the families terminated from the program by Shasta County Housing Authority will have their name added to the HCV wait list, with priority, according to their original wait list application date.  
• Families who have been involuntarily displaced (within no more than six months from the date of preference verification) by governmental action, or whose dwelling has been extensively damaged or destroyed as a result of a disaster occurring within Shasta County Housing Authority jurisdiction, as declared by the Governor of the State of California or due to extensive damage as a result of a federally‐declared disaster (as listed with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), pursuant to Federal disaster relief laws. 
• Families in which any member is a victim of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking.   
• Families who are disabled non‐elderly, between the ages of 18‐61, who provide a certification from an eligible organization, who are transitioning out of an institution or other segregated settings, at serious risk of institutionalization, homeless (HUD definition), or at risk of becoming homeless.  
• Families whose head of household, spouse, or co‐head of household is elderly and/or disabled or families with dependents.  
• Families that are referred from an eligible organization as being housing deficient. Housing deficient families are families who meet the HUD homeless definition.  
• Families who reside in the PHA’s jurisdiction or whose head of household, spouse, or co‐head of household are employed within the PHA’s jurisdiction.  
• Families who reside in the City of Redding or whose head of household, spouse, or co‐head of household are employed within the city of Redding.

Selected applicants were placed on the waiting list by date and time the application was received, weighed by order of preferences.

For more information, visit the SCHA website.

Sources: This information was verified by the SCHA application portal on February 6, 2023.