Wilmington HA is a public housing agency that helps provide decent and safe rental housing for eligible low-income families, the elderly, and persons with disabilities. Wilmington HA manages several funded programs and has a total of 60 subsidized affordable housing units for rental assistance. Wilmington HA administered a total of 50 Section 8 Vouchers. Wilmington HA currently has low rent units and Section 8 Voucher as its program type. Wilmington HA is located at 1524 South 16th Street, Wilmington, NC, 28402 and serves the city of Wilmington. Income limits, fair market rents and rent rates vary with each agency. Please contact Wilmington HA at, (910)341-7700 for more information about coverage area and program availability.

The Housing Authority of the City of Wilmington was organized and incorporated in 1938 under the terms of the Housing Authority law of the State of North Carolina (Chapter 456, Public Laws of 1935). It was the first Authority established in the State, and later, with the financial assistance of the United States Housing Authority, (later the Federal Public Housing Authority) it constructed and operated the first public housing developments erected in North Carolina under the terms of the 1935 Act. A Housing Authority established pursuant to the 1935 Act is declared in the Act to be “a public body, and a body corporate and politic.” “It exists for the primary purpose of relieving unsatisfactory housing conditions by the construction of new housing.”

The Wilmington Housing Authority's mission is to provide quality, affordable housing in safe, attractive communities for the families we serve, thereby improving the quality of life for all residents of New Hanover County.