{"id":372921,"date":"2026-07-14T19:36:41","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T19:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/372921\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T19:36:41","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T19:36:41","slug":"houston-closes-public-housing-waitlists-after-56000-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/372921\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston closes public housing waitlists after 56,000 applications"},"content":{"rendered":"

Houston\u2019s housing authority, Housing Alliance HTX, opened its public housing\u00a0waitlists for the first time since 2023 this summer.\u00a0Within two weeks, roughly 56,000 households had applied, it said in a release<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The waitlists are now closed. The volume of applications underscores Houston\u2019s dire shortage of housing affordable to its extremely low-income residents. Houstonians who earn either below 30% of the area\u2019s median income or the poverty level, or approximately $22,750 for a two-person household, face one of the worst housing shortages in the country<\/a>, according to the National Low Income Housing Coalition.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe sheer number of applicants demonstrates the broad need for affordable housing across Houston,\u201d said Kelly Haines, the authority\u2019s senior vice president for asset management, in the release.<\/p>\n

Next, the housing authority will use a random lottery to select 10,000 of the 56,000 applicants to add to the waitlists. Those who are already on a waitlist had to take action by the end of June<\/a> to stay on the list, and their spot on the list will be determined on the date and time they created a RentCafe account and clicked \u201cSave My Spot\u201d to submit a \u201cconsent form\u201d on the housing authority\u2019s website.<\/p>\n

Haines said those with questions about their applications or waitlist status could reach out to the authority at (832) 446-1611, by email, or in person at the Housing Alliance HTX office at 2640 Fountain View Drive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Houston\u2019s housing authority, Housing Alliance HTX, opened its public housing\u00a0waitlists for the first time since 2023 this summer.\u00a0Within…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-372921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}