Taunton Housing Authority is a public housing authority in Taunton, Massachusetts. HUD lists the program type as Combined, which means both public housing and Housing Choice Vouchers. HUD reports 1,165 Housing Choice Voucher units. HUD reports 568 public housing units. Waiting lists we have checked: Housing Choice Voucher is open; Public Housing - Family is open; Public Housing - Elderly/Disabled is open. The contact information on this page is from HUD and is free to read. We do not take applications. Applying to the authority is free.
Each list below is separate. A status is open or closed only when the housing authority’s own page says so. The source link and the date we last read that page are on the card.
Housing Choice Voucher Program (HCV/Section 8) (waitlist is open)
No application deadline was stated on the page we checked.
The page we checked did not say whether to apply online, in person, or by mail.
Source: www.tauntonhousing.com/faqs
Last verified: October 22, 2026
Public Housing - Family (waitlist is open)
No application deadline was stated on the page we checked.
The page we checked did not say whether to apply online, in person, or by mail.
Source: www.tauntonhousing.com/faqs
Last verified: October 22, 2026
Public Housing - Elderly/Disabled (waitlist is open)
No application deadline was stated on the page we checked.
The page we checked did not say whether to apply online, in person, or by mail.
Source: www.tauntonhousing.com/faqs
Last verified: October 22, 2026
We do not take the application. The housing authority does. Applying to its waitlist is free.
This is a common checklist, not Taunton Housing Authority’s list. Bring what the authority’s application page names. Read the longer notes on papers.
Applying is free. Do not pay a person, a website, or a text message that offers to add you to a waitlist or move you up one. A landlord can charge an ordinary fee to apply for an apartment. That fee is not a fee to join the housing authority’s list.
How to spot a voucher scam. Report one to the HUD Office of Inspector General hotline.
Address, phone, and email are the HUD directory record. They are free to read. We do not sell them or hide them.
HUD lists the program type as Combined, which means both public housing and Housing Choice Vouchers. These counts are units the authority reported to HUD. They are not the number of people on a waitlist.
Source: HUD Public Housing Authorities on Data.gov.
Plain-language notes on the programs this authority runs. They describe the federal programs. They are not this authority’s rules, and they are not legal advice.
A Housing Choice Voucher helps a household pay rent to a private landlord. The household finds the home. The housing authority pays a portion of the rent to the owner. People often call this Section 8.
The voucher is tied to the household, so the household can move to another unit that meets the program rules. The authority’s own page says where the household is allowed to live.
Public housing is an apartment the housing authority owns. The household pays rent based on income, and the authority is the landlord.
A public-housing waiting list is for those apartments. It is a different list from a voucher that can be used with a private landlord.
A senior or disabled list is for households that meet an age or disability rule the authority publishes. The apartments are often smaller, and the authority states who counts as senior or disabled.
Those rules are the authority’s. A household that does not meet them can still ask about the authority’s other lists.
| Home size | Small Area Fair Market Rent | 90% of that rent | 110% of that rent |
|---|---|---|---|
| Studio (efficiency) | $1,740 | $1,566 | $1,914 |
| 1 bedroom | $1,750 | $1,575 | $1,925 |
| 2 bedrooms | $2,300 | $2,070 | $2,530 |
| 3 bedrooms | $2,760 | $2,484 | $3,036 |
| 4 bedrooms | $3,320 | $2,988 | $3,652 |
HUD’s income-limit file has no row for the county code on this housing authority (Bristol). Connecticut towns, and some other places, use a different code than the one in the housing authority directory.Look up a county or town by name.
This timeline is our own record, from the status file we publish. Each line is a date we verified a list on the authority’s website. A household’s place in line stays with the housing authority.
Housing Choice Voucher marked open, previously not yet verified.
Source. Read on the housing authority website.
Public Housing - Family marked open, previously not yet verified.
Source. Read on the housing authority website.
Public Housing - Elderly/Disabled marked open, previously not yet verified.
Source. Read on the housing authority website.
Households can apply to more than one authority. Distance is a straight line from office to office, using the coordinates HUD published.
Yes. Joining a housing authority waitlist is free. Taunton Housing Authority does not collect a fee on this website. A message that asks you to pay to be added to the list, or to move up it, is not an application to the housing authority.
Taunton Housing Authority has not published a wait time on a page we have checked. The housing authority is the source for how long its own list takes. That time changes.
We have recorded these lists: Housing Choice Voucher (open); Public Housing - Family (open); Public Housing - Elderly/Disabled (open). An authority can also run lists we have not checked yet. Its own website is where those lists are named.
Office address from HUD: 308 Bay St, Taunton, MA, 02780. Phone: (508) 823-6308. Email: cdoherty@tauntonhousing.com. Website: https://www.tauntonhousing.com.
HUD’s income-limit file has no row for this office’s county code. The income check page can look up a county or town by name.
Email alerts are not turned on yet. You can follow this housing authority’s RSS feed instead.
If you saw the housing authority’s own page say a waitlist opened or closed, tell us. A person checks that page before we publish anything.