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Resolution to Approve Amendment to the Housing Voucher Administrative Plan Chapter 4: Applications, Waiting List, and Tenant Selection: Part III. Section 4-III.C. Local Preference
Memorandum
The Ann Arbor Housing Commission's Housing Choice Voucher Program Administrative Plan Chapter 4 describes the PHAs policies regarding various aspects of organizing and managing the waiting list of applicant families. PHAs are permitted to establish local preferences, and to give priority to serving families that meet those criteria.
Staff first recommend adding Dunbar Tower to the list of PBV properties managed by the PHA where no waiting list is established and all applicants are referred through the local Continuum of Care (CoC) Chronically Homeless Program (CHP). In addition, The PHA will continue to accept applications from families meeting program criteria while closing the waiting list to families who do not meet the criteria. Staff recommend adding Special Purpose Vouchers such as Emergency Housing Vouchers (EHV) to the waitlist preferences. And staff recommend adding EHV to the list of vouchers programs allocated for targeted funding determined by HUD.
The most significant recommendation by staff is related to the HUD PIH Notice 2025-19 posted June 24, 2025, informing PHAs that administer the Emergency Housing Voucher program that EHV funding will likely exhaust in calendar year 2026 and current EHV program participants must be admitted the PHAs waiting list to transition to HCV for continued housing assistance.
To prevent disruption in housing subsidy, staff recommend adding current AAHC EHV program participants who would otherwise lose their voucher due to insufficient funding, as a preference to the regular HCV waitlist. Staff also recommend adding a preference for foster youth whose voucher assistance automatically terminates after five (5) years of participation. This will allow those qualified households to seamlessly transition to the HCV program witho...
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