Dekalb County 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. Dekalb County Housing Authority manages several funded programs and has a total of 280 subsidized affordable housing units for rental assistance. Dekalb County Housing Authority administered a total of 564 Section 8 Vouchers. Dekalb County Housing Authority currently has low rent units and Section 8 Voucher as its program type. Dekalb County Housing Authority is located at 310 N. 6th Street, Dekalb, IL, 60115 and serves the city of Dekalb. Income limits, fair market rents and rent rates vary with each agency. Please contact Dekalb County Housing Authority at, (815) 758-2692 for more information about coverage area and program availability.

The Housing Authority of the County of DeKalb was incorporated in 1946 as an Illinois Municipal Corporation. The mission of the Housing Authority is to provide clean, decent, safe, affordable housing for lower income families and individuals throughout DeKalb County. The Housing Authority of the County of DeKalb was not very active until 1969 at which time the Housing Authority embarked on a building campaign to construct housing in DeKalb County.

The mission of the Housing Authority of the County of DeKalb is to assist low and moderate income families with safe, decent and affordable housing opportunities as they strive to achieve self-sufficiency and improve the quality of their lives, by operating in an efficient, ethical, and professional manner by emulating best practices, and by creating and maintaining partnerships with its clients and appropriate community agencies in order to accomplish this mission.