Orange County Housing Authority’s Section 8 program was last opened in 2012, and it’s taken the agency this many years to support the nearly 50,000 approved applicants with housing.

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — For the first time in five years, the Orange County Housing and Community Development Department is taking applications just to get on a waitlist for Section 8 housing.

Orange County's Section 8 program opens wait list for first time in 10+ years Interested households have through Sept. 29. to submit their applications for the wait list.

The backstory. Orange County Housing Authority’s Section 8 program was last opened in 2012, and it’s taken the agency this many years to support the nearly 50,000 approved applicants with housing.

Commonly called Section 8 vouchers, ... the threshold is $47,450 for an individual. That is based on the median income in Orange County being $119,000.