A job with a housing authority would be a government job, either working for the city, county, state or federal government. These jobs are listed on specific websites set up by the employer. Do a search to find out how the positions are listed in your area.
While each Housing Authority has its own rules by which someone must apply for a housing choice voucher or public housing, the section 8 program is a federal program: so the rules are basically the same everywhere.
Yes Boston does have section 8 housing. Check out the Boston Housing Authority web page to see if you qualify.
There is no way to find this out. You have to check with your local housing authority or with several housing authorities to see which lists are open.
Check with every local housing authority in that state to see if they have a waiting list that is open.
No. The housing authority might, but not the landlord. Of course, in some cases, the housing authority is the landlord.
If you already hold a voucher, check with your local housing authority to see what properties they have available from landlords who are willing to accept housing choice vouchers.
The Section 8 housing program is administered by the local Housing Authority in your area, and is giverned by the USDA, Housing and Urban Development office, known as HUD. Their main office is in Washington DC. If you have a complaint about how your local Housing Authority administers its programs, you have the right to contact the HUD office in that area, or write to HUD in Washington, DC, which will forward your complaint to the proper area.
See the link below. Their main phone number is 212-306-3000
You can check with your local housing authority to see what their requirements are in qualifying for Section 8. It is based on how many members are in the household and what the household income is.
It is really up to the housing authority at the time of your application. Generally, if you have a felony they will not accept you. If a long time has passed since your felony conviction, they may approve you.
Surprisingly, yes you can! You can be on as many waiting lists you want to be for a Housing Choice Voucher, formerly known as the section 8 voucher. You can wait for in one state while you are holding a voucher in another. This is generally a strategic move because although you have the ability to port a voucher to another state, the Housing Authority that issued your voucher can claim it cannot afford to port you to the other state. This often happens when you want to move from a rural state -- where there is often no transportation system, medical centers, or other convenient facilities -- to a jurisdiction that does have these conveniences but are often more expensive than the rural area from which you want to move. To port a voucher, the receiving Housing Authority must agree to absorb the costs of such porting or the issuing Housing Authority must agree to be billed by the receiving Housing Authority. So waiting for another voucher might be a good choice in your case. However, you probably already are aware that you can only hold one voucher at a time, so when the other Housing Authority issues your voucher, you will have to let go of the original voucher. Make sure that you make this transition as smooth as possible (in other words, do not burn the bridges behind the original Housing Authority). You may want to check with the Housing Authority that has you on their waiting list to see if they will absorb the cost of porting, or check with your issuing Housing Authority to see if they are willing to be billed, so that you may not have to wait on the waiting list anymore.
Most of them do to see if you qualify to be interviewed.