Jefferson, Jennings and Scott County, Indiana Housing Choice Voucher Waiting List

The Ohio Valley Opportunities (OVO) Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher waiting list is currently closed. Applications were last accepted from October 5, 2020, until October 9, 2020. 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.

This waiting list had the following preferences:

• Residency
  Applicant is a legal resident of, has been hired to work in, or currently works within JEFFERSON COUNTY, IN. (If YES, you must enter the name and address of the employer OR enter in your residential address within that county)
• Person residing in an institutional setting or at risk of being placed in an institutional setting
  An institutional or other segregated setting includes, but is not limited to: Congregate settings populated exclusively or primarily with individuals with disabilities; or congregate settings characterized by regimentation in daily activities, lack of privacy or autonomy, policies limiting visitors, or limits on individuals’ ability to engage freely in community activities and to manage their own activities of daily living; or settings that provide for daytime activities primarily with other individuals with disabilities; or a person at risk of being placed in a setting defined above
• Working Families
  Persons either attending a school/training program or working at least 20 hours per week; elderly status (age 62 and older), non-elderly disabled status (61 and under with disability), having a disabled family member (any age)
• Elderly
  Applicant (Head, Spouse, Co-Head, Sole Member) is age 62 or older
• Non-Elderly Family Member with Disability
  Non-elderly (61 years or younger) family, Head, Spouse, Co-Head, or sole member meets HUD’s definition of disabled
• Family Member with a Disability
  An individual who meets the HUD definition of a person with a disability
• Youth Exiting Foster Care
  Youth that Indiana Department of Child Services has certified to be at least 18 years and not more than 24 years of age who have left foster care, or will leave foster care within 90 days and is homeless or is At Risk of Becoming Homeless
• Child Welfare Involved Families
  A family that Indiana Department of Child Services has certified as a family for whom the lack of adequate housing is a primary factor in the placement of the family’s child, or children, in out-of-home care, or in the delay of discharge of a child, or children, to the family from out-of-home care.

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

According to the OVO, households should plan to be on the waiting list for one to four years.

For more information, visit the OVO website.

Sources: This information was verified by the North Vernon Plain Dealer and Sun public notice, as of September 15, 2020.

Service Area

This waiting list is for rental assistance in Jefferson, Jennings and Scott County, Indiana.