Tacoma Housing Authority (THA) helps people pay for housing they find and rent from private owners.
Housing Choice Voucher Program
Rental support for families in need
THA helps people pay for housing they find and rent from private owners. Funded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the Housing Choice Voucher Program is the nation’s largest rental subsidy program. It used to be called the Section 8 Program.
Other Rental Assistance Programs
Tacoma Housing Authority (THA) has other programs besides the Housing Choice Voucher Program that help pay rent on a dwelling. THA usually manages these programs in partnership with other community agencies.
Project-Based Section 8 Voucher Program
THA has agreed to attach some of its vouchers to units in specific apartment buildings owned by for-profit or non-profit private owners. The assisted families pay the same rent that they would in the regular voucher program.
Here are some of the apartment buildings or communities in Tacoma that offer THA Project-based vouchers:
- Eliza McCabe
2315 S Yakima Ave | (253) 572-4179 - Exley Apartments
309 S 9th St | (253) 201-1325 - Flett Meadows
4408 S 74th St | (253) 581-8689 - Guadalupe Vista
1305 S G St | (253) 502-2764 - Harborview Manor
919 S Fawcett Ave | (253) 272-5552 - Hillside Gardens
1708 S G St | (253) 572-4179 - Hilltop Lofts
1124 M.L.K. Jr Way | (253) 254-8915 - Home at Last
402 Broadway | (253) 272-4181 - Hotel Olympus Apartments
815 Pacific Ave | (253) 274-1250 - Nativity House Apartments
1411 S Yakima Ave | (253) 502-2770 - New Tacoma Apartments
1709 South G St | (253) 572-4179 - Pacific Courtyard
8606 Pacific Ave | (253) 284-9050 - Rialto Apartments
311 S 9th St | (253) 518-3573 - St. Helens
309 S 9th Street - Tyler Square
3202 S Tyler St | (253) 318-4492
Coordinated Entry
A portion of properties and THA units are filled by referrals through Coordinated Entry.
If you are currently homeless, you can connect with Coordinated Entry by calling 2-1-1 or visiting Washington 211 online.
Property Based Subsidies
THA buys down rents at a number of apartment complexes for qualifying applicants with very low incomes. Residents of these properties are technically not THA clients, but still realize affordable rents.
- Highland Flats
- Crosspointe
- Koz on Market
- Koz at the Dome
- Cascade Park Vista (assisted living)
- Cascade Park Gardens (assisted living – memory care)
- Peoples Senior Living (assisted living)
Single-Room Occupancy (SRO) Voucher Program
A single room occupancy (more commonly SRO, sometimes called single resident occupancy) is a multiple tenant building that houses one or two people in individual rooms. Sometimes tenants in several units share a bathroom down the hall.
Here are the communities in Tacoma that offer SRO vouchers: