Watertown Housing Authority is a public housing agency that helps provide decent and safe rental housing for eligible low-income families, the elderly, and persons with disabilities. Watertown Housing Authority manages several funded programs and has a total of 60 subsidized affordable housing units for rental assistance. Watertown Housing Authority administered a total of 50 Section 8 Vouchers. Watertown Housing Authority currently has Low-Rent as its program type. Watertown Housing Authority is located at 142 Mechanic St., Watertown, NY, 13601 and serves the city of Watertown. Income limits, fair market rents and rent rates vary with each agency. Please contact Watertown Housing Authority at, (315)782-1251 for more information about coverage area and program availability.

In December of 1948 the Mayor of Watertown, NY, Henry A. Hudson, designated a five member Housing Authority Commission, which was vested with full powers, to consider housing needs, under New York State Public Housing Law, for the Watertown area. This was the start of the Watertown Housing Authority.

Our mission is to manage and maintain public housing developments in order to provide low income individuals decent, affordable, well-maintained housing in crime-free environment while encouraging economic self-sufficiency.