Lamar 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. Lamar Housing Authority manages several funded programs and has a total of 30 subsidized affordable housing units for rental assistance. Lamar Housing Authority administered a total of 107 Section 8 Vouchers. Lamar Housing Authority currently has low rent units and Section 8 Voucher as its program type. Lamar Housing Authority is located at 804 South Main Street, Lamar, CO, 81052 and serves the city of Lamar. Income limits, fair market rents and rent rates vary with each agency. Please contact Lamar Housing Authority at, (719) 336-9511 for more information about coverage area and program availability.

Lamar Housing Authority offers a range of housing opportunities for Prowers County Residents - for low income, senior, or temporary needs. Eligibility depends upon meeting income levels, qualifying through application, and screening for suitability. Also, LHA screens all applicants for criminal history.

Lamar Housing Authority offers the following residences:
Emerald Homes in Granada, Holly, Lamar, Sheridan Lake, and Springfield - Low Income Public Housing
Section 8 Housing around Prowers County
Strainhurst South offers beautiful spacious 1 bedroom apartments in Lamar, Colorado. Strainhurst Apartments are local affordable housing for qualified seniors and persons with a disability and is an independent living facility.
Strainhurst Courts offers beautiful spacious 1 bedroom apartments in Lamar, Colorado. Strainhurst Apartments are local affordable housing for qualified seniors and persons with a disability and is an independent living facility.

To provide decent, safe, and affordable housing to elderly, handicapped, and/or disabled persons in Lamar and the surrounding counties. To advocate for the needs required by those persons stated above in order to maintain their quest for a suitable living environment, free from discrimination, as long as it is their choice and is medically and economically feasible.

To improve the overall housing quality standards of existing housing in Lamar and surrounding counties.

To advocate for and assist in providing decent, safe, sanitary, and affordable existing housing for low income families in Lamar and the surrounding counties, advocating that these families need a support system to encourage self-sufficiency and continuing education in order to reach an income earning capacity that no longer requires subsidized housing for them, and to learn that subsidized housing for families is not a way of life but temporary assistance when needed.