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To Approve Amendments to the Housing Choice Voucher Administrative Plan regarding Waitlists, Service Area, Denial of Application, Project-Based Vouchers, Homeownership, Utility Reimbursements, EID, Student Financial Aid, HQS Reinspection Fees, and Utility Allowance Schedules
Memorandum
The Ann Arbor Housing Commission's Housing Choice Voucher Administrative Plan details its policies and procedures for the management of its Section 8/Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) Program. The AAHC periodically revises the Plan to reflect changes in HUD policies and changes in AAHC policies.
The following policy revisions were included in the AAHC FY15 Annual Plan that can be taken based on AAHC board action:
1. Combine the public housing waitlist with the voucher waitlist once there are no longer any public housing units.
2. Remove Western Wayne County from the AAHC voucher service area
3. Increase minimum requirements to participate in the Homeownership and Family Self Sufficiency program.
4. Remove the requirement to deny an application from a household who has a member who has been evicted from federally assisted housing in last 5 years for a drug-related criminal activity. The AAHC requires that household member to be removed from the application.HUD allows the AAHC to admit that household member if they have completed an approved drug rehabilitation program for a drug-related activity that occurred in last 3 years.
5. Remove the requirement to deny an application from a household that has been evicted from federally subsidized housing in the last 3 years.
6. The PHA will advertise its request for proposals (RFP) for proposals selected under another competition, existing, rehabilitated and newly constructed housing in local newspapers that are either on-line or newsprint.
7. The PHA will publish its advertisement in the newspaper for at least one day per week for two consecutive weeks. The advertisement will specify the number of units the PHA estimates ...
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