Section 8
Section 8-Housing Choice Voucher ( HCV) Program
HACY began its operation with funds to assist 200 families under the HCV Section 8 Program. Today, HACY assists 1,451 families. And, HACY administers contracts with approximately 400 local landlords and property owners, working together to provide affordable housing opportunities to persons in need. HACY subsidizes the household rent through a Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) Contract with the landlord/owner. The program is administered under an Annual Contributions Contract (ACC) with the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). HUD provides ACC funding to enable HACY to structure a lease agreement that sets the program participant's rent at 30% of household income after deductions. The voucher program includes a baseline of traditional HCV's and other special population vouchers for (1) veterans (HUD VASH), (2) youth aging out of foster care (FUP), and (3) persons with serious mental illness (SMI). HACY's program operations budget is approximately $1,000,000 dollars. HUD's rental subsidy portion exceeds approximately $7,000,000 annually.
2018 Housing Choice Voucher Landlord of the year for Multi-Family and Single Family units.
Section 8 Income Eligibility:
- Income Limits: Income limits are used in order to qualifying tenants for the HCV program. To view if you are qualified candidate for the HCV, please review Income Limits.
- Payment Standards: Housing Authority of the City of Yuma voucher payment standards set the maximum amount the agency will pay for your rent and utilities. Voucher payments standards are not the maximum rent landlords can charge or the subsidy that you receive. Please review the agency's payment standards as of January 1st, 2024.
- Admin Plan: Please see attached policies and procedures of the Section 8 program.
- Utility Allowance: Please see attached utility allowances for residential homes and apartments.
Apartment Listings:
If you are interested in moving in the near future or are currently moving, please review the homes and units that our landlords have posted on our website.
Violence Against Women Act (VAWA)
Case Manager Alpha:
Guadalupe Mariscal: A-Angulo (HCV)
Project Base Voucers ( RAD, Mesa Heighst, Carver Park)
Ana Rivera: Annunake – Gonzalez
Jessica Oliver: Gop – Pic
Yanira Conde: Pid - Z
Edith Ruis: All Family Self-Sufficiency (FSS) Participants
Irannea Bustillos: Special Vouchers (VASH, FUP & EHV)
Wait List Specialist
Claudia Ibarra and Marisa Luna
Section 8- Project Base Voucher (PBV) Program
This program subsidizes the rental utilities of a unit in a subsidized development. If the tenant in a Project-Based Unit moves out of the development during the first year of the lease, the tenant's assistance ends. If the tenant moves out of the development during after the first year, the assistance continues and follows the tenant.
HACY Provides 92 units of Project-Based assistance in the following developments:
