|
Local or State Housing Agency |
Number of Authorized Vouchers |
Consequences of HUD Policy |
|
Alabama |
|
|
|
Huntsville Housing Authority |
1,189 |
Expects funding shortfall of $350,000. May
reduce number of vouchers by attrition or termination. |
|
Tuscaloosa Housing Authority |
1,156 |
Expects $152,000 shortfall through December.
Considering lowering payment standard or setting preference for working
families. |
|
California |
|
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|
Housing Authority of the City of Alameda |
1,625 |
To meet a $3 million
shortfall (which was due in part to HUD’s new policy and in part to
overleasing), the city and the agency used $2.4 million of non-HUD funds
reserved for repairs and improvements to other low-income housing and all
of the agency’s $600,000 of Section 8 administrative fee reserves. Due to
the ongoing shortfall of $200,000 per month, the agency notified 239
families that their Section 8 assistance would be terminated at July 1.
(Families receiving termination notices were those that had last entered
the program.) That number was reduced to 108, due to families leaving the
Alameda program in June (some of whom were able to transfer their vouchers
to other agencies) and owners’ voluntary rent reductions. For July, the
City of Alameda used a portion of its federal HOME funds to keep these 108
families in their homes. In mid-July HUD announced it would provide an
additional $636,000, an amount that will allow the 108 families to receive
voucher assistance again until November 1. The agency will decide at the
end of August whether to reissue termination notices based on the status of
its appeal for additional funding from HUD. |
|
Benicia Housing Authority |
372 |
Increasing minimum rent and requiring more
frequent recertification of family income. |
|
Butte County Housing Authority
|
1864 |
$671,040 shortfall for 2004. Lowering voucher
payment standard (requiring some families to pay more for rent). Sending
termination notices in July to terminate some families’ vouchers effective
September 1 (likely due to overleasing in fiscal year ending 9/30/04).
Will use local funds to cover families’ rent for September and hope to be
able to reinstate them in the voucher program after October 1. |
|
Contra Costa Housing Authority |
6,687 |
Actual per-voucher cost more than $40 per month
over HUD’s reimbursement rate. Reducing voucher payment standard and
freezing issuance of new vouchers. |
|
Fresno Housing Authorities |
11,764 |
Expecting shortfall of about $19 per voucher
per month. Reducing voucher payment standard and prohibiting moving with
vouchers to other communities. |
|
Imperial Valley Housing Authority |
1,607 |
Actual costs are about $15 per voucher per
month above HUD’s reimbursement rate, for an anticipated shortfall through
end of year of $372,200. Considering lowering voucher payment standard,
raising minimum rents from $25 to $50, refusing portability, and asking
landlords to contain rents. |
|
Housing Authority of Kern County
|
3,228 |
Reducing voucher payment standard, which may
require residents to pay more of their income for rent. Asking
landlords to voluntarily freeze rents through the end of the year, but many
landlords are resisting. May not approve rent increases above HUD’s
inflation factor or for landlords who have had an increase in the past 12
months. Considering restricting portability moves to higher cost
areas if lawful. The county will have to use about $500,000 of its
reserves to balance the budget by year’s end. |
|
Kings County Housing Authority |
688 |
Will probably start targeting higher income
families for new vouchers. Denying families’ right to use vouchers to move
to other areas. |
|
Lake County Housing Commission |
224 |
Anticipate shortfall of $120,000 for the year.
Lowering payment standard effective August 1. |
|
Long Beach Housing Authority |
6,280 |
Received a $2.9 million loan from the City’s
HOME rental rehabilitation program, allowing it to rescind its June 1
decision to cancel more than 4,000 Section 8 contracts and reissue them
under new terms, which would have meant raising tenants’ rent payments an
average of $90 as of August 1. (Funding shortfall was in part a result of
overleasing for fiscal year ending June 30, 2004.) Reduced maximum rent for families moving to
new units. (Reduced payment standard takes effect for tenants in place
after about one year.)
|
|
Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles |
44,022 |
Reduced voucher payment standard from 110% of
the 50th percentile to 100% of the 40th percentile.
Imposed a minimum rent of $50. |
|
Los Angeles County Housing Authority |
20,275 |
Reduced payment standard. |
|
Housing Authority of the County of Monterey |
3,770 |
Shortfall of about $500,000 for year. Reduced
payment standard effective June 1. Denying families’ right to use vouchers
to move to more expensive areas and limiting families to one move annually. |
|
Napa Housing Authority |
1,174 |
May terminate up to 85 families if it does not
receive additional HUD funds. Using administrative fee reserves and HOME
funds to avoid terminations as long as possible. Denying portability
moves. Stopped issuing vouchers in
May. Froze new admissions to Family Self Sufficiency program. Lowered
payment standard. |
|
Oakland Housing Authority |
10,754 |
Freezing issuance of vouchers. |
|
Oxnard Housing Authority |
1,640 |
Shortfall of about $800,000 for year. Reducing
payment standard except for one-bedroom units, limiting rent increases,
denying moving vouchers for families seeking to leave project-based units,
and considering limitations on portability moves. |
|
Roseville Housing Authorities |
562 |
Shortfall of nearly $300,000. Have stopped
issuing vouchers and are considering lowering voucher payment standard. |
|
Sacramento Housing and Development Agency |
10,989 |
Anticipate shortfall of $8
million by end of year due to HUD funding at $60 - $70 below actual cost
per voucher per month
Increasing minimum rents
from $0 to $50. Canceling or reducing 216 project-based voucher contracts
as of June 30, 2004. Have frozen issuance of new vouchers to cure overleasing. Generally denying landlord requests for rent increases. |
|
San Diego (city) Housing Commission |
12,034 |
Anticipate shortfall of $2.3 million by end of
year. Lowering payment standard and reducing rents by 2.2 percent. |
|
Oceanside Housing Authority |
1,313 |
Expect shortfall. Reduced voucher payment
standard effective July 1. |
|
Housing Authority of San Luis Obispo |
1,823 |
Expects shortfall. Lowering payment
standard. |
|
Housing Authority of City of Santa Barbara |
1,955 |
Expecting shortfall. May not approve moves to
higher cost units. |
|
Housing Authority of Santa Clara County |
9,527 |
Received additional funding from HUD to make
subsidy payments in June, but still facing future shortfalls. |
|
Santa Rosa Housing Authority |
1,367 |
Frozen issuance of new vouchers. |
|
Sutter County Housing Authority |
803 |
May lower payment standard and would like to
restrict portability moves to higher cost areas if HUD continues to pay
based only on local rent costs. |
|
Tehama County Housing Authority |
144 |
Considering lowering payment standard. |
|
Yolo County Housing Authority |
1,466 |
Reducing the number of vouchers from authorized
level of 1,466 to 1,383 to meet funding shortfall. Revoked vouchers from
families searching for housing if landlords had not yet signed the final
documents. |
|
Colorado |
|
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|
Aurora Housing Authority |
1,083 |
Shortfall of $311,704 by December. Lowering
payment standard. Considering terminating 60 vouchers, reducing rents,
freezing vouchers, refusing portability. |
|
Colorado Division of Housing |
2,392 |
Freezing issuance of new vouchers. They will
cut 30-40 vouchers by attrition to compensate for inflation and may
increase the minimum rent to $50. |
|
Summit Housing Authority |
49 |
Freezing issuance of new vouchers. |
|
Connecticut |
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|
East Hartford Housing Authority |
312 |
Shortfall of $67 per unit per month.
Anticipates total shortfall of $180,000 for subsidy payments and has
notified owners it will likely reduce subsidy payments (increasing amount
tenants will have to pay), and will terminate some families’ vouchers. |
|
Greenwich Housing Authority |
343 |
Anticipates shortfall of about $500,000 for the
year. If funding situation does not change, it expects it will have to
reduce subsidy payments before the end of the year, which is likely to make
it difficult for families to use vouchers in Greenwich due to high housing
costs. |
|
Milford Housing Authority |
266 |
Shortfall of $107.59 per unit per month.
Imposing minimum rent. Canceled plan to project-base about 30 vouchers in
supportive housing project for the homeless and to use other vouchers for
one-year transitional housing for the homeless. Likely to have to
terminate vouchers for current tenants. Will probably use a lottery to
decide which vouchers to terminate. |
|
Willimantic Housing Authority |
395 |
Shortfall of $45 per voucher per month.
Anticipates shortfall of more than $200,000. Increased minimum rents, and
refusing rent increases for owners. Anticipates some owners will refuse to
renew leases without rent increases, due to increasing property taxes and
utility costs. |
|
Waterbury Housing Authority |
2,052 |
Facing a $36,900 monthly shortfall, resulting
in at least 67 families who could be eliminated from the program. |
|
Delaware |
|
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|
New Castle County Housing Authority |
1,725 |
Shortfall of
more than $43 per voucher per month, or more than $650,000 for the year.
Lowered payment standard. Froze issuance of vouchers beginning May 1
despite being significantly underleased. |
|
District of Columbia |
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District of Columbia Housing Authority |
8,736 |
Facing more than a $4 million shortfall this
year. As of June 17, still determining what steps they will take to deal
with the cuts, but it is likely that no turnover vouchers will be issued
and that other cost-cutting steps will be taken. |
|
Florida |
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|
Avon Park Housing Authority |
25 |
Anticipate shortfall by end of year.
Lowering payment standard. |
|
Bartow Housing Authority |
55 |
Stopped issuing allocated vouchers. |
|
Clearwater Housing Authority |
1,056 |
Proposing to increase minimum rent from $1 to
$50. Considering refusing portability to other areas. |
|
Deerfield Beach Housing Authority |
481 |
Expecting funding shortfall of $119,000 by
end of 2004. Reserves should be sufficient to cover. Denying portability
moves to higher cost areas. |
|
Deland Housing Authority |
549 |
Shortfall of $260,000 by end of year. Lowering
payment standard by $126. Froze issuance of turnover vouchers. Denying
families’ right to move out of the jurisdiction with vouchers. Restricting
unit size allowed. |
|
Flagler County Housing Authority |
180 |
Families may not move out of the county with
their vouchers if the move would increase subsidy cost. Will reduce number
of bedrooms allowed. Considering lowering payment standard from 110% to 90%
of FMR. |
|
Housing Authority of City of Ft. Lauderdale |
1,966 |
Funding shortfall of over $28 per unit per
month. Has lowered payment standard and frozen issuance of new vouchers. |
|
Gainesville Housing Authority |
1,227 |
Expects funding shortfall. Will not utilize
about 50 vouchers because of shortfall. Considering increasing minimum
rent. Has withdrawn vouchers from families searching for housing. |
|
City of Green Cove Springs Housing Authority |
148 |
Shortfall of $26 per voucher per month. No
definite decisions about possible actions. |
|
Jacksonville Housing Authority |
6,386 |
Shortfall expected. Increasing minimum rent.
May freeze issuance of turnover vouchers. |
|
Lake County Housing Agency |
282 |
Expecting shortfall but amount unknown; no
adverse actions at this point. |
|
Marianna Housing Authority |
117 |
Shortfall of more than $50 per voucher per
month. Proposing to limit portability to other areas. |
|
Pahokee Housing Authority |
36 |
Expect shortfall of approximately $8,000 by end
of year. Proposing to not allow rent
increases. Proposing to not allow portability. Considering establishing
or increasing minimum rents. |
|
Panama City Housing Authority |
418 |
Expect funding shortfall of $60,589 by end of
year. Increasing minimum rent from $30
to $50. Freezing issuance of vouchers. Refusing portability to
other areas. |
|
City of Pensacola Housing Department |
603 |
Expect a funding shortfall of $95,927 by fiscal
year end on September 30. Lowering payment standard. Increasing
minimum rent from $25 to $50. Moratorium on portability. |
|
Seminole County Housing Authority |
334 |
Shortfall expected. Decided against earlier
plan to terminate vouchers, instead reducing payment standards to 90% of
FMR (which will likely increase tenant rent payments and could make
vouchers more difficult to use). |
|
Sumter County Housing Department |
132 |
Expect shortfall by end of year. May borrow
from General Funds and use administrative fee reserves. Proposing to
increase minimum rent from $0 to $50. Freezing voucher issuance. Have
taken back five vouchers from people searching for units. |
|
Tallahassee Housing
Authority |
1,835 |
Expects funding shortfall of about $347,000 by
end of 2004. Reserves will not be enough to cover. |
|
Volusia County |
322 |
Expect shortfall by end of year. |
|
Walton County Housing |
364 |
Expect shortfall of $10,000 by end of year. |
|
Illinois |
|
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|
Aurora Housing Authority |
800 |
Losing $880,000 due to new
funding policy. May reduce number of families served by between 100
and 150. |
|
Housing Authority of the
County of DeKalb |
539 |
Per unit shortfall of
$28.17. Lowered payment standard. Established minimum rents. Have frozen
issuance of new vouchers. Refusing to allow portability to higher cost
areas. Have taken vouchers back from searchers. Considering terminating
vouchers. |
|
Housing Authority of Elgin |
913 |
Termination notices dated
June 30, effective July 31, 2004, sent to 32 families, stating agency has
insufficient funds to provide continued assistance. Their subsidies
extended through August, though further extensions are considered
unlikely. Available HUD data show per unit shortfall of about $50 per
voucher per month. |
|
Knox County Housing
Authority |
280 |
Experiencing shortfall of
about $100,000 per month. Freezing issuance of turnover vouchers, lowering
payment standard and limiting portability moves. |
|
McHenry County Housing
Authority |
867 |
Stopped reissuing vouchers
as families leave the program. |
|
Madison County Housing Authority |
916 |
Has been using public housing and other funds
to cover voucher funding shortfall, but cannot continue. Termination
and withdrawal of vouchers will begin on Aug. 1. Terminations for
approximately 130 individual voucher recipients. |
|
Peoria Housing Authority |
1,726 |
Per unit shortfall of $20.46, for total
expected shortfall of $480,000. Reserves may be sufficient to avoid
program cuts. |
|
Indiana |
|
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|
Indianapolis Housing Authority |
7,519 |
Lowering payment standard. |
|
Lafayette Housing Authority |
1099 |
Expecting shortfall. Lowering payment standard
effective August 1. If needed, it will freeze issuance of vouchers and
take back vouchers from searchers. |
|
Iowa |
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Area XV Multi-County Housing Authority
(Appanoose, Davis, Jefferson, Keokuk,
Lucas, Mahaska, Monroe, Van Buren, Wapello, and Wayne Counties) |
354 |
Shortfall of $74,027 through 2004.
Considering lowering payment standard, increasing minimum rents, freezing
issuance of new vouchers, and refusing portability. |
|
Central Iowa Regional Housing Authority (Boone,
Dallas, Jasper, Madison, Marion and Story Counties except cities of Ames
and Knoxville) |
725 |
Shortfall of $18 per voucher per month.
Lowering payment standard effective July 1, denying moves with vouchers if
increase subsidy costs, and reducing of bedrooms allowed. |
|
City of Dubuque |
1,018 |
Expects shortfall. Considering lowering
payment standard, increasing minimum rents, and refusing portability. |
|
Iowa City Housing
Authority |
1,149 |
Denying
portability moves when new units would increase costs to the agency. Will
likely have to reduce number of families assisted if it doesn’t succeed at
increasing inflation adjustment in July appeal. |
|
Spirit Lake Low Rent Housing Agency |
100 |
Expects shortfall. Considering lowering
payment standard and refusing portability if HUD permits. |
|
Kansas |
|
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|
Hutchinson Housing Authority |
221 |
Shortfall of $71,000. Lowered payment standard
and imposed a minimum rent effective July 1. |
|
Kentucky |
|
|
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Kentucky Housing Corporation (operates in 85 of
state’s 120 counties) |
4,741 |
Shortfall of about $50 per voucher per month,
or about $2.8 million for calendar year. May lower payment standard. To
ameliorate overleasing problem, terminating families technically still on
program but not receiving subsidy payments due to income. |
|
Maine |
|
|
|
Portland Housing Authority |
1,718 |
Froze issuance of new vouchers. May
reduce number of families served by 65 – 75. |
|
Maine State Housing Authority |
3,990 |
Expects shortfall of $480,000 by end of 2004;
can temporarily cover with reserve funds. |
|
Maryland |
|
|
|
Baltimore County Housing Authority |
5,403 |
Shortfall expected but will use reserves to
cover. No planned adverse actions at this point. |
|
Housing Authority of Calvert County |
314 |
Shortfall of more than $120,000 expected by end
of 2004. Denying rent increases. |
|
Cecil County Housing Agency |
539 |
Shortfall of $131,000 expected by end of 2004.
Lowering payment standard and increasing minimum rent. |
|
Easton Housing Authority |
139 |
Expect shortfall. Considering lowering payment
standard and increasing minimum rent. |
|
Housing Opportunities Commission (Montgomery
County) |
