If you are in danger or in crisis

Call 911 if you are in immediate danger. Call or text 988 for a mental-health or suicidal crisis. For somewhere to stay tonight, call 2-1-1. A voucher is not emergency help.

Indiana housing help · Sources checked 2026-10-07

Rent help and waiting lists (Indiana)

Find who handles housing vouchers where you live in Indiana, and what the official pages say about waiting lists.

Indiana county

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Vouchers in your county

Choose any Indiana county above. If this guide does not have a county-specific agency, it points you to the state voucher office, HUD’s authority finder and 2-1-1.

Waiting-list checklist

1. Find who handles vouchers for where you live: your city's housing authority, or IHCDA's local agency for your county.
2. Check whether a waiting list is open. If this page cannot say, call to confirm.
3. Online waiting lists may need an email address. Set one up before a list opens.
4. Write down every list you apply to, the date, and any confirmation number.
5. Tell each list if your address, phone or household changes.
6. If you need a place to stay now, call 2-1-1. A voucher is not emergency help.

Paper notes: list __________ · applied on __________ · confirmation # __________

How vouchers work

Housing Choice Vouchers (Section 8)

A voucher helps pay rent on a private home or apartment. IHCDA runs the program across Indiana with local agencies.

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administers HCV throughout the state with the assistance of local community action agencies

Official source: https://www.in.gov/ihcda/homeowners-and-renters/housing-choice-vouchers-hcv/

Housing Choice Vouchers (HCV) intro

Who runs vouchers where you live

If your city has its own housing authority, apply there. Everywhere else, IHCDA's local agency handles it.

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does not have a local, city-based housing authority falls under IHCDA

Official source: https://www.in.gov/ihcda/homeowners-and-renters/housing-choice-vouchers-hcv/new-hcv-applicant

Applying for an HCV Voucher; Finding a Service Provider

IHCDA voucher office

IHCDA's Housing Choice Opportunities office lists this phone number.

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Phone: 317.232.7788

Official source: https://www.in.gov/ihcda/homeowners-and-renters/housing-choice-vouchers-hcv/new-hcv-applicant

Finding a housing authority

Find your housing authority

HUD has a phone line to help you find your local public housing authority.

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call (800) 955-2232 for help to find your local Public Housing Authority

Official source: https://www.hud.gov/states/indiana

Rental assistance section

Need help now

If you have nowhere to stay tonight

HUD's Indiana page says to dial 2-1-1 and contact a homeless service provider.

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dial 2-1-1 and contact a homeless service provider

Official source: https://www.hud.gov/states/indiana

Housing crisis section

Indiana 2-1-1

Indiana 2-1-1 connects people with local help.

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Indiana 211 connects Hoosiers with essential community resources

Official source: https://www.in.gov/fssa/thehub/indiana-211/

Indiana 211 intro

What this guide does not know

Waiting lists open and close. A status here is only what the official page said on the date shown.
Indiana-wide emergency rent help: this page has not found a current official Indiana program, so it lists none.
Housing authority websites are listed only where NOLO could check them.
Where this guide does not yet have a county-specific agency, it shows the state voucher office, HUD’s authority finder and 2-1-1. It never guesses a county office.