Housing Assistance
The largest cost for any family is housing. However for low income families, the cost of having safe, affordable and quality housing is typically twice their household income.
Panhandle Community Services provides safe, affordable, and quality housing opportunities through the Housing Choice Voucher Program (formally the Section 8 Voucher Program). The Program allows individuals and families to locate and select their own housing and use the voucher to pay for all or part of the rent. All housing units must pass a housing standard quality inspection prior to anyone moving into a unit. The unit maybe an apartment, house or mobile home based on the family’s housing needs.
APPLICATION FOR THE HOUSING CHOICE VOUCHER PROGRAM
This program helps with rent assistance and allows low-income people to select and live in quality housing. Applications are pulled from the waiting list based on income, date, time, and other factors. Help with housing assistance is determined after applications are pulled and by eligibility criteria.
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Armstrong County Briscoe County Carson County Castro County
Childress County Collingsworth County Dallam & Hartley Counties Deaf Smith County
Donley County Gray County Hall County Hansford County
Hemphill County Hutchinson County Lipscomb County Moore County
Ochiltree County Oldham County Parmer County Potter County
Randall County Roberts County Sherman County Swisher County
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Veteran's Affair Signature Housing (VASH)
To combat homelessness among veterans, Panhandle Community Services, in conjunction with the Veterans Administration has sixty housing vouchers for veterans.
Veterans must be approved by the VA prior to receiving a voucher.
Interested Veterans must contact the Housing First Program at the VA for the application process.
Amarillo VA Healthcare System is located at:
6010 Amarillo Blvd. West, Amarillo
(806) 355-9703 Ext 7755
Landlords & Tenants Corner
If you are a current landlord or thinking of becoming a HUD landlord join us for an upcoming landlord briefing. Learn how vouchers work.
Inspectors will be on hand to answer questions on tenant damage, evictions and more.
If you are interested in becoming a landlord or attending one of our landlord briefings email amanda.hyppolite@pcsvcs.org
Upcoming Landlord Briefings will take place on November 9th, 2022 and December 13th, 2022 at 1309 SW 8th Ave., Amarillo from 10am until 12. This is a great overview of the HUD program, what to expect, what your rights are, and more. Inspectors will be on hand to answer any questions you may have.
Resources:
- Landlord Checklist for Inspections
- Tenant Checklist for Inspections
- Fair Market Rent for Potter and Randall Counties
- Client Satisfaction Survey
Landlords may post available property at AffordableHousing.com
Want to check your payments? www.Hapcheck.com
What to be a HCV landlord? HCV Landlord Resources | HUD.gov
