Title
Resolution to Amend the Administrative Plan Regarding Chapter 4: Applications, Waiting List, and Tenant Selection.
Memorandum
The Ann Arbor Housing Commission (AAHC) is required to maintain a waiting list of families who are interested in Housing Choice Voucher program. Per regulation the AAHC must describe in the Administrative Plan the method for selecting applicant families from the waiting list, including the system of admission preferences that the PHA will use.
The AAHC currently establishes the following preference for the Housing Choice Voucher Program: residents of Washtenaw County, disabled applicants, homeless applicants, and applicants who have been involuntary displaced.
Staff recommend, the board adopt a preference for admission of single persons who are age 62 or older. Adding this preference would allow qualifying households to reside in units exclusively serving elderly families.
Current PHA Policy related to Local Preferences
PART III: SELECTION FOR HCV ASSISTANCE
4-III.B. SELECTION AND HCV FUNDING SOURCES
Local Preferences [24 CFR 982.207; HCV p. 4-16]
PHAs are permitted to establish local preferences, and to give priority to serving families that meet those criteria. HUD specifically authorizes and places restrictions on certain types of local preferences. HUD also permits the PHA to establish other local preferences, at its discretion. Any local preferences established must be consistent with the PHA plan and the consolidated plan, and must be based on local housing needs and priorities that can be documented by generally accepted data sources.
PHA Policy
The PHA will not establish a preference for a special category of families where targeted funding has been received. The PHA will create a preference specifically for homeless people who are referred by a partnering homeless service organization or consortia of organizations. The PHA may limit the number of applicants that may qualify for a particular preference. The PHA w...
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