Adults 18 years or older in households earning less than 50% of the Area Median Income (AMI) are eligible for Section 8 assistance.

Common preferences are: Local resident, homeless, disabled, veteran, or elderly. Other preferences might include: domestic violence, reuniting families in foster care, displaced by natural disaster, local job or job offer, rent burdened (high ren

The housing authority has the right to disqualify a person if the applicant had a criminal record, signed in with wrong information or had rent arrears formerly.