Highlands Residential Services is a public housing agency that helps provide decent and safe rental housing for eligible low-income families, the elderly, and persons with disabilities. Highlands Residential Services manages several funded programs and has a total of 60 subsidized affordable housing units for rental assistance. Highlands Residential Services administered a total of 50 Section 8 Vouchers. Highlands Residential Services currently has Low-Rent as its program type. Highlands Residential Services is located at 235 W. Jackson St., Cookeville, TN, 38501 and serves the city of Cookeville. Income limits, fair market rents and rent rates vary with each agency. Please contact Highlands Residential Services at, (931)526-9793 for more information about coverage area and program availability.

Highlands Residential Services, formerly Cookeville Housing Authority, was established on October 29, 1952.

Highlands Residential Services operates and manages housing units in Algood, Baxter, Celina, Cookeville, Gainesboro and Monterey. Across our neighborhoods, we operate 660 units, including 550 Public Housing units, 30 Low Income Housing Tax Credit units, and 80 Project-Based Section 8 Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) units for the elderly and the disabled. Our units are designed to give our region's residents a place to belong while they get on their feet again.

The mission of Highlands Residential Services is to provide safe, decent, and affordable housing; create opportunities for resident.s self-sufficiency and economic independence; and assure fiscal integrity by all program participants.