www.mariettahousingauthority.org

Jim Rattray - Director Housing Choice Voucher Program

Phone: 770-419-5105

The Housing Choice Voucher Program, also known as Sec8 Program is a rent subsidy program designed to assist low-income families in paying rent for private housing of their choice. The Housing Authority is currently providing assistance to more than 2151 families through this program. Applicants are limited to low income families, eligible elderly or disabled persons.

HCV Summer Newsletter 2011 [673.81K]

The Housing Choice Voucher Program is designed to achieve three major objectives:

To provide decent, safe, and sanitary housing for very low income families while maintaining their rent payments at an affordable level;
To promote freedom of housing choice and spatial deconcentration of very low income families of all races and ethnic backgrounds;
To provide an incentive to private property owners to rent to very low income families by offering timely assistance payments;

In addition, the Housing Authority has the following goals for the program:

To assist the local economy by increasing the occupancy rate and the amount of money flowing to the community;
To encourage self-sufficiency of participant families.The purpose of the program is to facilitate matching eligible MHA clients with affordable, dependable and quality housing properties.

Housing Choice Eligibility

Housing Choice Documents

Family Self-Sufficiency Program

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