Lancaster City Housing Authority

The mission of the Lancaster City Housing Authority is to improve the quality of life consistent with local, commonwealth and federal statutes by: Providing decent, safe, and sanitary housing for low and moderate income individuals and families, retired persons and the disabled. By recognizing the residents as our ultimate customer. By fostering an increased supply of quality housing affordable to low and moderate income residents throughout Lancaster County. By fostering development, ownership and successful management of housing. By taking a comprehensive approach that goes beyond bricks and mortar, to build links to social service and economic development organizations, and to assist neighborhood residents and community organizations in creating successful neighborhoods. By administering rental assistance and related programs which allow people to afford and access the widest range of housing opportunities. And by providing support and referral services which enable families and individuals to comprehensively address their housing and social service needs and to become increasingly self-sufficient. The Lancaster City Housing Authority (LCHA) provides 564 units of Conventional Public Housing and 1,003 Housing Choice Vouchers (formerly Section 8 Program) within the City of Lancaster, Pa. The LCHA also provides a variety of programs to its residents/clients in support of its core housing programs.