A Word From Our Executive Director
Feedback is a gift. We’d all like to get positive feedback and comments on the work we do. But that doesn’t make us grow and improve. A wise man once observed, “All sunshine makes a desert.”
In our efforts to ensure the work we do in administering the Section 8 Housing Choice Program is of the highest quality, we desire to get feedback from property owners and managers about their experience partnering with Bremerton Housing Authority.
Here’s the link to a survey we’ve recently developed. It only takes a few minutes to complete.
https://bremertonhousing.org/index.php/439-landlord-survey
The Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) program is the largest program administered locally by BHA. In addition to the 371 vouchers managed by BHA for Housing Kitsap, we have 1,882 of our own vouchers, for a total of 2,253 rental subsidies. This number is far greater than that 573 apartments we own and manage in Bremerton.
Housing Choice Vouchers are used to provide affordable rental housing for qualified individuals and families throughout Kitsap and Mason counties. For the HCV program to be successful, we partner with rental properties owners. The private landlord provides the rental unit and BHA uses federal HCV funds to pay a subsidy to ensure qualified renters pay a rent that is affordable to them. These rental properties vary in size from single family homes to apartments in complexes of over 200 units.
Each month BHA staff process eligibility documents for hundreds of participating households, determine rent portions, calculate subsidies, inspect properties for health and safety, adjust contract rents, and ensure owners get their rent subsidy by the 1st of each month. Our goal is to have each of these tasks done efficiently, accurately, and timely.
Rental markets ebb and flow based on economic conditions. Current shortages of rental housing have caused rents to rise dramatically and vacancies to drop to historic lows. Through good times and bad, BHA wants local landlords to partner with us because it makes solid business sense, gives them a return on their property investment, and provides a critical need for low income households to have a safe, decent, and affordable place to call home.
We don’t have opportunities enough to thank our landlord partners. We are grateful for property owners and managers who participate in the Housing Choice Voucher program. For those who are currently partnering with us, we sincerely seek your feedback on how we’re doing and how we can improve.
BHA News
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BHA Partners with Local Agencies to Provide Access to Rental Assistance Through New Voucher Referral Program
On March 15, 2024, over 25 service providers joined Bremerton Housing Authority (BHA) to learn more about the Housing Choice Voucher program (formerly known as Section 8) and the new partner referral program.
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Save My Spot in RENTCafé due April 12, 2024
If you are on BHA’s Housing Choice Voucher (Section 8) waitlist or know someone who might be, BHA is currently updating our records and needs to know who is interested in staying on the waitlist.
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Bremerton Housing Authority Secures $6.5 Million Grant to Provide Supportive Housing for Vulnerable Young Adults through Evergreen Bright Start Project
On January 18, 2024, Bremerton Housing Authority (BHA) received notice from the Washington State Department of Commerce that their Housing Trust Fund grant application was fully funded to receive $6.5 million to acquire a new multifamily property in downtown Bremerton, Washington.
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Letter to Bay Vista Residents RE: Proposed Emergency Shelter Options
On October 31, 2023, Jill Stanton, Executive Director of Bremerton Housing Authority, sent an information-only letter to Bay Vista residents and neighbors regarding the City of Bremerton Mayor’s proposed plans to build an emergency shelter.
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