San Miguel County, New Mexico Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Waiting List

This waiting list is for Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher rental housing assistance in San Miguel County, New Mexico.

The Bernalillo County Housing Department (BCHD) is accepting Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher waiting list applications for San Miguel County from August 18, 2022 at 12:00 am MT, until further notice.

To apply while the waitlist is open, complete the online application.

The waiting list has the following preferences:

• Federal Disaster Preference (7 pts): The PHA offers a preference to families displaced as a result of a federal declared disaster.
• Insufficient Program Funding Preference (6 pts): The PHA offers a preference to families that have been terminated from its HCV program due to insufficient program funding.
• Homeless Preference (5 pts): The PHA offers a preference to families who are certified as homeless (PHA’s definition of homeless) and referred by PHA approved entities.
• Working Family Preference (includes families where head AND spouse/cohead are elderly or disabled) (4 pts): The PHA offers a working preference to an applicant whose head of household, spouse, or co-head is employed. Employed is defined as working a minimum of 30 hours a week from the date of application/declaration of preference until waiting list selection. Any break in employment during this period cannot exceed 45 calendar days. An applicant where the head and spouse (or co-head) or sole member is a person age 62 or older, or is a person with disabilities, must also be given the benefit of this preference.
• Veterans Preference (4 pts): The PHA offers a preference to applicants who served in the active military, naval, or air service of the United States who received other than a dishonorable discharge.
• Disabled Preference (4 pts): The PHA offers a preference to any family that includes a person with disabilities.

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 BCHD website.

Sources: This information was verified by the BCHD Housing page on August 8, 2023.