About Us

Overview & Purpose:

Moline housing Authority (MHA) is an assisted housing organization. We operate in accordance with policies established by a Five-member Board of Commissioner’s and regulations & statutes administered by the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD).

Established in 1944, The Moline Housing Authority (MHA) is a medium sized housing authority located in the Mid Western region. We make up part of a “Quad City” area, comprised of four major cities, (Iowa & Illinois) bordered by the wondrous Mississippi River.

Our High performing housing authority is located in the City of Moline, Illinois and operates 486 public housing units. And administer 234 Housing Choice Vouchers (Section 8). Both programs are HUD assisted housing programs designed to assist eligible low-income families

The public housing units are located in three (3) “community “ development sites. Each apartment is clean, spacious unfurnished, full sized kitchen with basic appliances. MHA provides capital improvements through upgrades to our community development units to offer a recent living atmosphere. Also, modern playground equipment is available for children to enjoy a safe and healthy outdoor experience.

We take pride in the full-time maintenance department that performs regularly scheduled maintenance on our properties and handles all resident work order requests for service.

Our community’s safe environment offers clean grounds, with additional security (COP), supportive service programs & activities to assist adult & youth individual needs moving them toward self-sufficiency…. Each residential community has recently remodeled community room areas for activities & programs, laundry room areas and Service provided with a “Customer First” attitude.

Serving the customer has become our front-line responsibility revived. This charge also allowed us to shift priorities and pursue initiatives toward becoming more competitive and marketable.

MHA embraces the Resident Participation requirement to improve the residential housing communities quality of life. MHA meets all requirements to partnering with the residential community. MHA has a resident appointed board member and an active Resident Advisory Board. also known as the RAB board. Each member is either a resident of the public housing or Housing Choice voucher (HCV) program. Members are representative of the residents of their community.

Housing Programs:

Low income Public Housing
Spring Brook development- Family sized units offer one-four bedroom units.
Spring Valley- Hillside developments - Efficiency – One-bedroom units for singles or couples.

Housing Choice Voucher Program (Section 8)
MHA administer 234 Housing Choice Vouchers (Section 8). The HCV program is a public/private partnership designed to provide rent subsidies for qualifying low-income families using privately owned rental housing in the community. The program is also funded and regulated by HUD. MHA acts as the agent for HUD in the HCV program making subsidy payments to private landlords.