Apartments that accept Section 8 in Evanston, IL

Search for apartments in Evanston using your Housing Choice Voucher. Compare HUD rent benchmarks, then confirm the rent and utilities with the authority administering your voucher. Explore 10 neighborhoods and find contact details for the local housing authorities below.

Voucher discrimination is illegal here

Under the Cook County Human Rights Ordinance and Illinois Human Rights Act, it is illegal for a landlord in Cook County to refuse an applicant because they use a housing voucher.

General information, not legal advice. For help with a specific case, use HUD’s fair-housing resources.

Cook County Commission on Human Rights

Rental listings in Evanston, IL

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Active listings recorded in Evanston, IL. Each available unit counts once; units in the same building share one building card. Missing program tags do not establish refusal; confirm the address, availability, voucher paperwork and utilities with the owner.

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Check before you pay

Applying for housing assistance or joining an agency waitlist is free. An agency will not ask you to pay by app, wire or gift card to get a spot. Use HUD’s contact page to find your housing agency, then call to check an offer.

Do not pay to view a home or hold a waitlist spot. Before sending rent or a deposit, confirm the home and the person’s right to rent it. See FTC advice on checking a rental.

Sources checked October 16, 2026: HUD OIG’s August 2024 waitlist fraud bulletin and FTC rental-scam guidance (June 2026).

Rental terms used on this page

Housing Choice Voucher (Section 8): Rental help run by a housing authority. You find a home, and the agency checks the unit, rent and your household before it approves payment.
Payment standard: An amount the agency uses to work out housing assistance for a unit size and area. It does not mean that any home at that rent will be approved.
FMR and SAFMR: HUD rent estimates for an area (Fair Market Rent) or ZIP code (Small Area Fair Market Rent). They include rent and most tenant-paid utilities. Your agency may use a different payment standard.
Utility allowance: The agency’s estimate of the cost of utilities you must pay. It is not a promise to pay your actual bills.
Gross rent and tenant share: Gross rent combines the lease rent and the agency’s utility allowance. Your tenant share is the part you must pay after the agency works out your help.
Portability: Moving with a voucher to an area served by another housing agency. Ask your current worker what to do before you move.
Request for tenancy approval: The unit and owner paperwork your agency needs to start its rent and housing-quality review. Ask the agency for its form and deadline.

Definitions: HUD’s tenant voucher guide, checked October 16, 2026. Confirm the rules and forms with your own agency.

HUD rent benchmarks — ZIP 60201

Small-Area FMR · FY2027

HUD rent benchmarks — ZIP 60201, monthly dollars, fiscal year 2027
Bedrooms	HUD benchmark / mo
Studio	$2,190
1 bedroom	$2,330
2 bedrooms	$2,630
3 bedrooms	$3,380
4 bedrooms	$3,860

These are HUD Small Area Fair Market Rents, not an adopted housing authority payment standard or a guaranteed rent approval. Your authority determines assistance using its schedule, household income, voucher size and utility allowance. Rent reasonableness and inspection requirements also apply. How HUD vouchers work.

Public Housing Authorities

Chicago Housing Authority

HUD PHA code IL002 · 54,082 HCV vouchers

HCV list: last checked closed

The voucher list was closed to new applications when checked. Ask how the next opening will be announced. This does not stop an existing voucher holder from searching for an apartment.

HCV (Section 8) waitlist is closed; it last opened for a lottery registration October 27 to November 24, 2014, and CHA will announce publicly and run a lottery before it reopens. Public Housing and Project-Based Voucher waitlists are open at applyonline.thecha.org. Client Center: 60 E. Van Buren St, 312-742-8500.

Checked October 18, 2026. Read the authority source.

Office details, application guidance and rent questions →

Address: 60 E. Van Buren Street, Chicago, IL
Phone: (312) 742-8500
Website: https://www.thecha.org/

Housing Authority of the County of Cook (HACC)

HUD PHA code IL025 · 14,142 HCV vouchers

HCV list: last checked closed

The voucher list was closed to new applications when checked. Ask how the next opening will be announced. This does not stop an existing voucher holder from searching for an apartment.

Tenant-based HCV waitlist is closed; applications were last taken October 19 to November 2, 2020. HACC says waitlists open periodically based on occupancy and opens short site-based Project-Based Voucher windows: a senior PBV list for Carefree Village took applications September 30 to October 2, 2026 through its RentCafe portal. Call (312) 663-5447.

Checked October 18, 2026. Read the authority source.

Office details, application guidance and rent questions →

Address: 175 W. Jackson Boulevard, Suite 350, Chicago, IL
Phone: (312) 663-5447
Website: https://www.thehacc.org/

Housing Authority of the Village of Oak Park

HUD PHA code IL103 · 546 HCV vouchers

Call to confirm

We have not verified the current Housing Choice Voucher waiting-list status for this office. Ask whether it serves your address and how to check for openings.

Address: 21 South Blvd, Oak Park, IL
Phone: (708) 386-9322

Housing Authority of the Town of Cicero

HUD PHA code IL130 · 239 HCV vouchers

Call to confirm

We have not verified the current Housing Choice Voucher waiting-list status for this office. Ask whether it serves your address and how to check for openings.

Address: 1634 S Laramie Ave Ste B, Cicero, IL
Phone: (708) 652-0386

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