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If y'all have a Department 8 or HUD Housing Voucher, you may be able to use your voucher in another city, county or country. Your voucher moves around with you! This is called "porting".

If y'all are considering porting, here'southward a few things it may be handy to know.

Can I Port?

You may not be able to port to all locations. You lot volition need to ask both your current and new Housing Authority if they will allow the port.  Some reasons y'all may not be able to port:

  • Old Housing Authority is not willing to pay for the voucher and new Housing Authority is also non willing! (This is called "billing" and "absorbing.")
  • Housing Authority may be in a upkeep freeze and not assuasive ports
  • If yous are trying to port to a more than expensive area, and your electric current Housing Authority volition not cover the cost.
  • If you simply got approved for a voucher, and you lot were not a resident of the expanse when you practical, you may demand to motion there and live in that area for twelve months before you lot can port.

Exceptions to Porting Rules

If you are told that you are non immune to port, in some situations, y'all may be able to request that they brand an exception to these rules. You tin can asking an exception if:

  • You need to port because you or someone in your household is disabled or
  • You demand to port because of domestic violence or stalking

Requesting a reasonable accommodation for exception to porting rules:Requesting a Exception to the Porting Rules

Inquiry Your New Housing Authority

🌸 Afterwards y'all port, you volition demand to follow the new policies at the new Housing Authorities. This can cause a change to your voucher amount, number of bedrooms, who can live with y'all, your portion of the rent, and many other things.

🌸 Sometimes porting tin make things worse! Before porting, please read:Twelve Reasons Non to Port Your Housing Voucher

🌸 Hither'due south some of import:Questions to Ask Housing Government If Yous Want To Port

Finding a New Landlord

🌸 Information technology is a large challenge to discover a new home when y'all don't alive in the expanse. Some people wind up homeless or lose their vouchers because they cannot observe a identify. Please exist careful. We recommend that yous do not port unless you take already secured housing in the new area or definitely accept somewhere to staybeforeyou make the port.

🌸 Some people have success by applying for Low Income Tax Credit Buildings. These buildings all accept vouchers. Most have wait lists. You can find these buildings on the HUD map (look for the imperial symbols). Y'all can besides find them at affordable housing online.

🌸 You can also choose to surrender your voucher and instead utilise for a building that comes with Section eight. Some of our readers take very good experiences applying for elderly or disabled buildings (many accept disabled people at any age).

🌸 You tin besidesRequest Disability Accommodations to apply past post or electronic mail (non in person).

Breaking Your Current Lease

🌸 If you lot need to break your electric current lease: some areas have laws that allow a tenant to break a lease early for disability-related needs.

🌸 Even if your expanse does not have these protections, you can still make a reasonable adaptation request to be released from the charter. For HUD or a publicly-funded edifice, this should exist canonical if the asking is properly documented. A private landlord could try to claim "undue financial hardship," or could corroborate it. Request Disability Accommodations

🌸 Check your lease, some leases will allow y'all to terminate later on thirty days or sixty days. Some places convert to 60 day discover after the first year.

Making the Port

🌸 Ask your Housing Authority for their policy on how to asking a port.

🌸 Hither's an example of a policy on Porting or Transferring Your Voucher

🌸 Exist prepared for deposits, awarding fees and moving fees. Here's some ideas for:How to Escape Move-In Fees

Tin can All Section 8 Port?

🌸 You can port if y'all accept a Section viii Voucher. These may too be chosen Housing Selection Vouchers.

🌸 You cannotport if y'all have projection-based Section 8. Project-based Section 8 belongs to one specific building or property. If you leave, you lot go out behind the Section 8 and the side by side tenant gets it. Learn more nigh theDifferent Kinds of Section eight

🌸 Exception: If the apartment you are in is called "Projection Based Voucher." There is a chance you lot can asking to catechumen this to a "Tenant Based Voucher" and then port, using a rule called Family Right to Move. This does not apply to "project based rental assistance," simply "project based voucher."

Learn More

HUD Policies on Moves and Portability.

Law Bulletin on Portability Rights

HUD Laws on Porting

HUD Rules for Streamlining the Porting Procedure

How to Apply a Housing Voucher to Actually Find Housing!

How to Get Aid or File Complaints for HUD Housing Problems

Facebook Group: HUD and Department 8 for People with Disabilities

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🌷 This page is part of the costless online guide: The Sleepy Girl Affordable Housing Survival Guide

🌷 Art on this page past Robin Mead  and Elizabeth D'Angelo

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