Manchester, New Hampshire Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Waiting List

This waiting list is for Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher rental housing assistance in Manchester, New Hampshire.

The Manchester Housing and Redevelopment Authority (MHRA) is accepting Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher waiting list applications from the earliest confirmed date of June 28, 2018, until further notice.There are two ways to apply during the opening period:

1. Complete the online application available here.
2. Print the application available online.

This waiting list has the following preferences:

• Veteran Preference (which includes certain law enforcement officers and firefights/veterans/families)
  • Shall be given to a household member who currently serves in the Armed Forces of the United States or has been discharged with an honorable discharge or a discharge based on a service- related injury, illness or disability.
  • The Service Preference applies to a law enforcement officer or a firefighter if the officer/firefighter suffered 100% disability due to a service-related injury.
  • The Veteran and Service Preferences shall be extended to a spouse with dependent child(ren) of the serviceman killed in a war/conflict, or to a spouse with dependent child(ren) of a law enforcement officer or a firefighter killed in service to the community. The spouse with dependent child(ren) must be eligible as a family at the time of application and must have been dependent on the serviceman/law enforcement officer/firefighter at the time of the death.
• Residency Preference
  • Applies to applicant families living, working or who have been notified that they are to work in Manchester. This preference also applies to applicants who are aged 62 or older, or who are a person with a disability and who have a son, daughter or parent living in Manchester. This preference also applies to applicants who at one time lived in Manchester and can provide documentation of the same.
• Displaced Family Due To Government Action Preference
  • Shall be given to families who are currently residing in a unit that is slated for acquisition through a government action.
• Homeless Due to Disaster Preference
  • Shall be given to a family not currently receiving assistance if the homelessness is a direct result of a disaster (not intentionally caused by the family and does not result in a conviction) which renders the family’s residence uninhabitable. This preference shall give qualifying families priority over all other families, however. Families must be living in temporary housing in order to qualify for this preference.
  • “Disaster” shall include but not be limited to fire, explosion, flood, earthquake or Other natural disaster or condemnation by the City or other authorized entity and must render the resident uninhabitable. In the event repairs are feasible but cannot or will not be made within ninety (90) days of if information regarding time to repair cannot be obtained through the landlord, the unit will be considered uninhabitable.
  • MHRA staff will work with other agencies providing emergency assistance in order to meet with these families, assist them in completing applications and expedite the internal review process of all applications. MHRA acknowledges the strong possibility that relevant documents may be damaged or destroyed in the disaster; staff will proceed accordingly with the verification process.
  • This preference only applies to those families who have resided in residences within the physical boundaries of Manchester, New Hampshire that have been destroyed by disaster as defined about.
• Displaced Due to Federally Declared Disasters Preference
  • Shall be given to families who are Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher holders or Public Housing residents in another jurisdiction who, due to a federally declared disaster, have been displaced from their housing unit and have relocated, or wish to relocate, to the Manchester, New Hampshire area. This preference shall give qualifying families first priority over other waiting list placeholders
• Any family that has been terminated from MHRA’s HCV program due to insufficient program funding and then assist families that qualify for the VAWA preference.

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

For more information, visit the MHRA website.

Sources: This information was verified by the MHRA on May 19, 2022 and updated on April 26, 2023.