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Resolution to Approve Amendment to the Housing Voucher Administrative Plan Chapter 6: Income and Subsidy Determinations
Memorandum
The Ann Arbor Housing Commission's Housing Choice Voucher program uses the family's income to determines eligibility for assistance and is also used to calculate the family's payment and the PHA's subsidy. HUD regulations specify the sources of income to include and exclude to arrive at a family's annual income.
The City of Ann Arbor received funding from the federal government as part of the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) and decided to use $1.6 million of the money for a guaranteed income pilot program; and
City of Ann Arbor Council voted June 5 to approve an agreement with the University of Michigan's Poverty Solutions to pilot a guaranteed basic income program aimed at low- and moderate-income entrepreneurs in Ann Arbor. The Ann Arbor Housing Commission has partnered with the University of Michigan Poverty and Solution department to exclude payments received from the Guaranteed Income Pilot Program in the calculation of family's annual income. Staff recommend that the board approve the administrative plan to include guaranteed income as an excluded source of income.
Revised Policy
Guaranteed Income
Amounts received from the income pilot program are excluded from annual income. The City of Ann Arbor received funding from the federal government as part of the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) and decided (in part based on resident feedback) to use $1.6 million of the money for a guaranteed income pilot program.
Guaranteed Income to Grow Ann Arbor (GIG A2) is a two-year guaranteed income pilot program that provides monthly payments of $528 to 100 entrepreneurs with low and very low incomes in Ann Arbor. Guaranteed Income is applicable to Ann Arbor entrepreneur, small business owner, gig worker, or someone with a side hustle. Guaranteed Income to Grow Ann Arbor would provide $528 a month for 24 months to support well...
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