The Housing Choice Voucher Program is designed to achieve three major objectives:

• To provide decent, safe, and sanitary housing for very low income families while maintaining their rent payment at an affordable level.
• To promote freedom of housing choice and spatial deconcentration of very low income families of all races and ethnic backgrounds.
• To provide an incentive to private property owners to rent to very low income families, by offering timely assistance payments.

In addition, the HA have the following goals for the program:

• To assist the local economy by increasing the occupancy rate and the amount of money flowing to the community.
• To encourage self-sufficiency of participant families.