Dover Housing Authority is a public housing authority in Dover, New Hampshire. HUD lists the program type as Combined, which means both public housing and Housing Choice Vouchers. HUD reports 550 Housing Choice Voucher units. HUD reports 274 public housing units. Waiting lists we have checked: Housing Choice Voucher is closed. 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.
Waiting lists
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.
Closed Housing Choice Voucher
Due to unprecedented demand and limited resources, the waiting list for the Housing Choice Voucer Program (formerly Section 8) is currently closed.
We have not checked this waitlist yet. We only publish open, closed, or opening soon after a person confirms it on the housing authority’s own website.
We do not take the application. The housing authority does. Applying to its waitlist is free.
Read the list cards above, then open the source link and read the authority’s page yourself before you apply.
Use the method that page states.
Housing Choice Voucher: the page we checked did not say whether to apply online, in person, or by mail. Authority page
Keep a copy of what you submit. If the authority asks you to check in later, the rule is on its page.
Papers people often need
This is a common checklist, not Dover Housing Authority’s list. Bring what the authority’s application page names. Read the longer notes on papers.
A photo ID for each adult.
Social Security cards, or another paper the authority accepts, for people who have a number.
Proof of income, such as pay stubs or a benefit letter.
Birth certificates or another proof of age for children in the household, if the application asks.
A note about a disability only if you are asking for an accommodation or a deduction.
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.
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.
PHA type
Combined
Performance designation: High Performer.
Housing Choice Vouchers
550
451 reported occupied.
Public housing units
274
The public-housing unit count in the HUD directory. It may not include every apartment the authority owns.
Office county: Strafford (33017). Metro area: Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH Metropolitan Statistical Area. Directory record date: July 6, 2026. Snapshot pulled 2026-10-21.
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.
Housing Choice Voucher
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
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.
Income limits and Fair Market Rents
Small Area Fair Market Rent for ZIP 03820, fiscal year 2027. Portsmouth-Rochester, NH HUD Metro FMR Area
Home size
Small Area Fair Market Rent
90% of that rent
110% of that rent
Studio (efficiency)
$1,450
$1,305
$1,595
1 bedroom
$1,560
$1,404
$1,716
2 bedrooms
$2,040
$1,836
$2,244
3 bedrooms
$2,430
$2,187
$2,673
4 bedrooms
$2,740
$2,466
$3,014
HUD’s income-limit file has no row for the county code on this housing authority (Strafford). 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.
A Fair Market Rent is HUD’s rent figure for a modest home. The 90% and 110% columns are HUD’s usual basic range around that rent. A housing authority adopts its own payment standard, and that adopted figure is published by the authority. This file stops at 4 bedrooms. The office county or ZIP may not be the whole area the authority serves. Source: HUD USER Fair Market Rents, fiscal year 2027 in this copy. Look up another ZIP. Compare a rent with income.
Status history
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 closed, previously not yet verified.
17 miles · Sanford, Maine · ME011 Housing Choice Voucher: Not yet verified
Questions
Is it free to apply to Dover Housing Authority?
Yes. Joining a housing authority waitlist is free. Dover 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.
How long is the wait at Dover Housing Authority?
Dover 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.
Does Dover Housing Authority have other waiting lists?
We have recorded these lists: Housing Choice Voucher (closed). An authority can also run lists we have not checked yet. Its own website is where those lists are named.