Daytona Beach, Florida Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Waiting List

This waiting list is for Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher rental housing assistance in Daytona Beach, Florida.

The Daytona Beach Housing Authority (DBHA) last accepted Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher waiting list applications from May 6, 2024, until May 10, 2024. There is no notice when this waiting list will reopen.

This waiting list had the following preferences:

• Homeless Preference - A local preference will be established in the Affordable Housing (Public) Program, and/or the Housing Choice Voucher Program to provide housing assistance to homeless or chronically homeless individuals or families up to 25% of the annual admissions. The Preference will be given to applicants on a referral only basis; and as certified as homeless by a social service agency as homeless and referred to HACDB under the terms and conditions of a Memorandum of Agreement. 
  • Homeless individuals and families.
  • Chronically homeless.
  • Individuals graduating from or aging out of the foster care program administered by the Florida Department of Protective and Regulatory Services.
  • Currently or formerly homeless applicants who are ready to transition from supportive housing program(s).
• Involuntary Displacement – Residents of Section 8, VASH, or other HACDB Housing Program who are in good standing; as of the date the property was HUD approved for demolition/disposition, and/or loss of funding -due to no fault of their own are displaced.
  • Residents due to modernization, rehabilitation, or demolition/disposition, or loss of funding, are displaced from a HACDB housing program. 
  • Victims of federally-declared natural disasters who are displaced and HACDB receives verification from a 3rd party city, state, or federal agency of displacement.
• Residency Preference : The Residency preference would give a preference for applicants who reside and/or work in Daytona Beach, Florida. 
  • The family must live, or at least one member must have a job within the limits of Daytona Beach, Florida. 
  • One adult member of the applicant household is currently enrolled in a Daytona Beach, Florida institution of higher education.

2,000 applicants were placed on the waiting list by random lottery.

To apply while the waitlist was open, applicants were required to complete the online application.

For more information, visit the DBHA website.

Sources: This information was verified by the DBHA public notice on May 3, 2024.