Description:
Tacoma Housing Authority (THA) is a public housing agency that helps provide decent and safe rental housing for eligible low-income families, the elderly, and persons with disabilities. Tacoma Housing Authority (THA) manages several funded programs and has a total of 886 subsidized affordable housing units for rental assistance. Tacoma Housing Authority (THA) administered a total of 4,114 Section 8 Vouchers. Tacoma Housing Authority (THA) currently has low rent units and Section 8 Voucher as its program type. Tacoma Housing Authority (THA) is located at 902 South L Street, Tacoma, WA, 98405 and serves the city of Tacoma. Income limits, fair market rents and rent rates vary with each agency. Please contact Tacoma Housing Authority (THA) at, (253)207-4400 for more information about coverage area and program availability.
The Tacoma Housing Authority (THA) is to provide high quality housing and supportive services to persons and families in need. We seek to do this in ways that gets two other things done. First, we want the households we serve to succeed not just as tenants but as "parents, students, wage earners and builders of assets." If they are capable of working, we want people's time on our programs to be transforming, and temporary. Second, we want to help Tacoma develop and to help ensure that when it does develop it has room for all types of households. We also seek to do our part in making its neighborhoods attractive places to live, work, attend school, shop, and play, and for Tacoma to be "safe, vibrant, prosperous, attractive and just." Our status as a public development authority helps us do this. We do this work in five main ways.
First, THA develops housing and real estate. THA, by what it builds and how it builds, seeks to create and promote communities that serve a range of needs and that are financially sustainable, environmentally innovative, and attractive.
Second, THA owns and manages affordable apartments and homes that we offer for rent. We seek to maintain our properties so they are attractive and enjoyable places to live and assets for their neighborhoods.
Third, we help people pay their rent for apartments or homes that they lease from private landlords. Our Housing Choice Voucher Program (Section 8) and our Housing Opportunity Program (HOP) are our main programs for this type of help. We do this in partnership with thousands of landlords in our community.
Fourth, we have programs that help families purchase their first home.
Fifth, THA also provides or arranges for supportive services. We do this for people who need help to succeed as tenants. Elderly or disabled persons, for example, may need help to live on their own. Families coming from homelessness or fleeing domestic violence may need help to stabilize. Moreover, we also want to help people who can work to prosper. In this way, we want our housing to be a transforming experience for them. Services make this success more likely.
In these ways, and others, THA seeks to serve its communities. We are a staff of about 115 people. We coordinate our efforts with many partners, both public and private. We believe this work is important to the people and communities we serve. We try to do it efficiently and effectively. I invite you to learn more about us and our work. I hope this web site will help you do that.
THA provides high quality, stable and sustainable housing and supportive services to people in need. It does this in ways that help them prosper and help our communities become safe, vibrant, prosperous, attractive and just.
THA envisions a future where everyone has an affordable, safe and nurturing home, where neighborhoods are attractive places to live, work, attend school, shop and play, and where everyone has the support they need to succeed as parents, students, wage earners and neighbors.
Current Status | Active |
Size of Tacoma Housing Authority (THA) compared nationally | Large |
Last Updated | 04/12/2014 |
Total Numbers of Communities | 18 |
Total numbers of Administered Section 8 Voucher | 4,114 |
Total numbers of Administered Public Housing Units | 886 |
Waiting list for the Tacoma Housing Authority (THA) is currently | Open |
Fair Market Rents are HUD's determination of the average rents in a particular area for each bedroom size. The FMRs are set each year based on the rental rates of unsubsidized units so that participants in HUD programs have equal access for affordable housing. Here are the Fair Market Rents for Pierce County, WA:
Pierce County Housing Authority (PCHA)
Tacoma WA
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King County Housing Authority (KCHA)
Seattle WA
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Renton Housing Authority (RHA)
Renton WA
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Housing Kitsap
Bremerton WA
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Housing Authority of Thurston County
Olympia WA
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Bremerton Housing Authority (BHA)
Bremerton WA
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Population: | 831,928 |
Persons Per Household: | 2.62 |
Housing Units in Multi-units Structure: | 24.2% |
Homeownership Rate: | 61.5% |
Housing Units: | 329,555 |
Yearly Income Per Person: | $28,223 |
Median Household Income: | $59,204 |
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