For the first time in 15 years, the New York City Housing Authority is allowing New Yorkers to sign up for its Section 8 housing voucher waiting list.

Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers are offered only to low-income New Yorkers.

The last time the waiting list was opened was back in 2009.

More than 100,000 people signed up for the Section 8 voucher waiting list in just the first nine hours since it went live at midnight Monday. It will remain open for the rest of the week through Sunday, June 9.

“So we’re putting 200,000 people on the waiting list,” NYCHA CEO Lisa Bova-Hiatt said. “And then we will work through that list of 200,000 people to determine eligibility and then to help with finding an apartment.”

Bova-Hiatt said anyone who wants to apply to be on the waiting list can do so through the rest of the week. After that, NYCHA officials will go through all the applications to determine which applicants are eligible to be on the final Section 8 waiting list, which will be capped at 200,000 families.

Those families who make the official waiting list will be eligible for a random lottery. Eligibility is determined by family size and income.

For eligibility based on income, it can range from about $54,000 for an individual to about $77,000 for a family of four.

About 3,700 families remain wait listed from the last time the waiting list was opened 15 years ago. Those families will be offered Section 8 vouchers before families who sign up this week are deemed eligible and issued vouchers.

NYCHA Executive Vice President of Leased Housing, Lakesha Miller, said the list was closed 15 years ago after more than 100,000 people were added. Now that most of those families have been offered vouchers, the agency has reopened the waiting list.

“This work of affordable housing, we’ve been doing it for many years,” Miller said. “So we’ve been working through the wait lost and we’re finally at a point where the wait list is almost depleted.”

“We are hoping to get the word out that if you are a very low-income New Yorker in need of assistance and subsidy than you should absolutely apply,” Bova-Hiatt said.

NYCHA aims to issue 1,000 vouchers each month until it hits its maximum distribution.

The agency is currently capped at 115,346 active vouchers and has 96,509 Section 8 participants either in leases or searching for apartments.