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Resolution to Amend the Administrative Plan Regarding Chapter 4: Applications, Waiting List, and Tenant Selection.
Memorandum
The Ann Arbor Housing Commission (AAHC) Housing Choice Voucher program receives targeted funding to administer four special purpose voucher programs. Of those special purpose vouchers, AAHC administer two Mainstream Voucher programs; which are referred to as Category 1 NED vouchers and 2017 NED vouchers. In addition, the AAHC applied for 2019 NED vouchers but HUD has not yet sent out award letters.
Staff recommend, adding language to better define the eligibility criteria for Category 1 Non-Elderly Disabled vouchers. Category 1 NED vouchers are designated for eligible non-elderly disabled persons or family where the head, co-head, or spouse is a non-elderly disabled person.
Staff recommend, adding language to the administrative plan to include a definition for eligibility for the 2017 & 2019 Non-Elderly Disabled vouchers. 2017 & 2019 NED vouchers are designated to eligible households with one or more non-elderly disabled adults. The eligibility criteria are extended to include non-elderly persons with disabilities who are or at risk of transitioning out of institutions, currently are or at risk of experiencing homelessness, or previously experienced homelessness and currently a client in a permanent supportive housing or rapid rehousing project.
Current PHA Policy related to Special Admissions
PART III: SELECTION FOR HCV ASSISTANCE
4-III.B. SELECTION AND HCV FUNDING SOURCES
Special Admissions [24 CFR 982.203]
HUD may award funding for specifically-named families living in specified types of units (e.g., a family that is displaced by demolition of public housing; a non-purchasing family residing in a HOPE 1 or 2 projects). In these cases, the PHA may admit such families whether or not they are on the waiting list, and, if they are on the waiting list, without considering the family's position on the waiting list. These fam...
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