Berkeley 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. Berkeley Housing Authority manages several funded programs and has a total of 60 subsidized affordable housing units for rental assistance. Berkeley Housing Authority administered a total of 1,935 Section 8 Vouchers. Berkeley Housing Authority currently has low rent units and Section 8 Voucher as its program type. Berkeley Housing Authority is located at 1936 University Ave., Ste. 105, Berkeley, CA, 94703 and serves the city of Berkeley. Income limits, fair market rents and rent rates vary with each agency. Please contact Berkeley Housing Authority at, (510) 981-5470 for more information about coverage area and program availability.

******THE SECTION 8 WAIT LIST IS CLOSED*******

The Berkeley Housing Authority is not accepting applications at this time.

The Berkeley Housing Authority (BHA) was estabilished on December 20, 1966. BHA owns or provides rental assistance to a total of 1,939 units through the Section 8 and Moderate Rehabilitation Program. BHA owns and operates 75 units of public housing. It is governed by a 7-member Housing Authority Board.

The mission of the Berkeley Housing Authority (BHA) is to deliver housing, housing assistance and related services to low-income
families and elderly persons and persons with verifiable disabilities, in order to enable them to live as independently as possible within their economic resources, and to other low-income persons (“other singles”) who are not elderly or do not have verifiable disabilities, for as limited a time as necessary in order to enable them to become self-sufficient and economically independent.