|
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 |
|
|
|
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 |
|
|
|
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 |
|
|
|
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 |
|
|
|
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 |
|
|
|
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 |
|
|
|
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 |
|
|
|
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 |
|
|
|
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 |
|
|
|
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 |
|
|
|
Hutchinson Housing Authority |
221 |
Shortfall of $71,000. Lowered payment standard
and imposed a minimum rent effective July 1. |
|
Kentucky |
|
|
|
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) |
5,662 |
Expects $400,000 shortfall by end of 2004.
Proposing lowering payment standard from $1,340 to $1218, raising minimum
rents from $25 to $50, and more frequent income recertifications. |
|
St. Michaels Housing Authority |
20 |
Expects shortfall. Lowering payment standard,
and increasing minimum rent. |
|
Massachusetts |
|
|
|
Massachusetts Department of Housing and
Community Development (statewide) |
18,422 |
Narrowly averted terminating vouchers of more
than 600 households in June when HUD changed method of calculating
inflation factor. Uncertain if it will have shortfall later in calendar
year 2004. Lowering payment standard. |
|
Acton Housing Authority |
155 |
Lowered payment standard. |
|
Andover Housing Authority |
127 |
Currently not issuing vouchers. Has
implemented minimum rents |
|
Arlington Housing Authority |
422 |
Currently not issuing vouchers. |
|
Barnstable Housing Authority |
471 |
Lowered payment standard. Considering
increasing minimum rents. |
|
Boston Housing Authority |
10,746 |
Reduced rents 7%, though allowing landlords to
appeal, and reduced payment standard. Canceled some project-based voucher
contracts. Using non-HUD funds to help meet shortfall. |
|
Brockton Housing Authority |
829 |
Estimates shortfall of approximately $800,000. |
|
Cambridge Housing Authority |
1,965 |
Lowering payment standard and freezing issuance
of vouchers. (Agency is part of Moving to Work demonstration for part but
not all of its vouchers.) |
|
Chicopee Housing Authority |
393 |
Increased minimum rents. |
|
Dedham Housing Authority |
404 |
Shortfall of nearly $50,000 by end of 2004.
Lowering payment standard. |
|
Fall River Housing Authority |
2,431 |
Estimates shortfall of $372,000.Taking back 47
vouchers from searchers. Lowered payment standard. |
|
Fitchburg Housing Authority |
177 |
Estimates shortfall of about $75,900. |
|
Gloucester Housing Authority |
573 |
Estimates $292,672 shortfall. Lowering payment
standard, freezing issuance of vouchers. |
|
Holliston Housing Authority |
49 |
Expects shortfall. Not issuing vouchers.
Recalled 20 vouchers from searchers. Lowered payment standard. |
|
Leominster Housing Authority |
273 |
Estimates shortfall of $45,000. |
|
Marlboro CDA – Housing Division |
135 |
Lowering payment standard and freezing issuance
of new vouchers. |
|
Medford Housing Authority |
987 |
Expects shortfall. Recalled 20 vouchers from
searchers. |
|
Melrose Housing Authority |
240 |
Estimates shortfall of $162,950. Taking back 8
vouchers from searchers. |
|
Middleboro Housing Authority |
154 |
Currently not issuing vouchers. |
|
New Bedford Housing Authority |
1,595 |
Lowering payment standard, recalling vouchers
from searchers, and freezing issuance of vouchers. |
|
North Adams Housing Authority |
313 |
Taking back vouchers from
19 searchers and freezing issuance of new vouchers. May have to terminate
families if it does not receive additional funding on appeal to HUD. |
|
North Andover Housing Authority |
133 |
Estimates shortfall of $117,953. |
|
Pittsfield Housing Authority |
580 |
Currently not issuing vouchers. Lowered
payment standard. Increased minimum rents. |
|
Quincy Housing Authority |
945 |
Sent letters to 945 landlords and tenants
telling them there would be no June rent payments. As a result, about 40
landlords have indicated they will leave the program. In late June it
received sufficient funds from HUD to pay owners about 70% of funds owed.
No future plans have been made. |
|
Salem Housing Authority |
865 |
Lowered payment standard. |
|
Somerville Housing Authority |
1,034 |
Shortfall of $70 per voucher per month.
Freezing issuance of turnover vouchers. |
|
Springfield Housing Authority |
2,485 |
Shortfall of $775,320 expected by end of 2004.
Lowering payment standard, canceling contracts for 23 project-based
vouchers. |
|
Stockbridge Housing Authority |
41 |
Increased minimum rents. Lowered payment
standard in highest cost areas |
|
Taunton Housing Authority |
731 |
Currently not issuing vouchers. Increased
minimum rents. |
|
Wakefield Housing Authority |
331 |
Estimates shortfall of about $396,000. Not
issuing vouchers. Lowered payment standard. Increasing minimum rents. |
|
Woburn Housing Authority |
288 |
Reduced payment standard. |
|
Michigan |
|
|
|
Jackson Housing Commission |
475 |
Reducing voucher payment standards. One
bedroom voucher will decrease by $86/month; 4-bedroom voucher by
$152/month. Minimum rents will increase to $50 from $25. |
|
Minnesota |
|
|
|
Bloomington Housing and Redevelopment Authority |
525 |
Expects shortfall of about $40,000. Lowering
payment standard. |
|
Cloquet HA |
105 |
Decreasing number of
households served from 105 to 93, through attrition. |
|
Dakota County Housing and Redevelopment
Authority |
2,202 |
Withdrew vouchers from 20 families searching
for new units and prohibiting moves to more expensive units. Reduced
payment standards effective June 1. Adopted $50 minimum rent. Using HOME
funds and local property tax revenue to cover remaining shortfall. |
|
Detroit Lakes Housing and Redevelopment
Authority |
167 |
Shortfall of $43,000 will require agency to
serve 17 fewer families. Will not reissue vouchers when families leave the
program. |
|
Duluth Housing and Redevelopment Authority |
1,230 |
Estimated shortfall of about $400,000 (about
$20 per unit per month). Lowering payment standards. Not allowing families
to make portability moves out of the jurisdiction. Implementing a $50
minimum rent payment, not allowing new FSS participants or new
homeownership program participants, and freezing issuance of vouchers. |
|
Kandiyohi County Housing and Redevelopment
Authority |
327 |
Lowering payment standard and requesting waiver
from HUD to implement for all families on September 1, 2004. Increasing
minimum rent to $50. Denying portability moves if will increase costs.
Asking HUD for waiver of extremely low-income targeting. Board will
consider whether to adopt admissions preference for working families (with
equal preference for elderly and disabled as required by HUD regulations). |
|
Metropolitan Council Housing and Redevelopment
Authority (serving suburban Ramsey, Hennepin Counties and Anoka and Carver
Counties) |
5,856 |
Lowering voucher payment standard by 5% - 7%
(larger reductions for larger units). May require tenants to pay
additional rent in current units and will affect movers. No rent increases
for owners. Moves permitted only to units with same or lower rent. |
|
Minneapolis Public Housing Authority |
4,836 |
Reduced voucher payment standards effective
July 1, 2004 and implementing reductions in subsidy payments for all
tenants at next annual reexamination. Many tenants will have to pay more
of their income for rent. No rent increases for owners will be approved.
Recalling vouchers from families searching for units and freezing issuance
of new vouchers. Reducing bedroom size allowed. |
|
Olmsted County Housing and Redevelopment
Authority |
522 |
Due to shortfall of $137,000, sent termination
notices to 48 families effective August 1, 2004. After notices were sent,
the city and county have contributed some local funds. Agency hopes to
raise other private funds to be able to rescind the terminations. Also
have reduced voucher payment standards and restricted families from moving
to other areas that would increase voucher costs. |
|
Red Wing Housing and Redevelopment Authority |
169 |
Expecting shortfall of about $30 per voucher
per month. Froze issuance of new vouchers and withdrew vouchers from
families searching for housing. Considering denying any rent
increases and moves outside of jurisdiction. |
|
St. Paul Public Housing Agency |
3,984 |
Facing a $3 million yearly shortfall. On June
23, the SPPHA approved a 7% across-the-board reduction in rents to owners,
effective Sept. 1. If owners do not wish to renew leases in light of the
rent reduction, tenants will have to move out and try to find another
landlord who will accept the reduced rent payments. Reducing voucher
payment standard. Freeze on issuance of new vouchers, including to
families moving out of units with project-based voucher assistance. Agency
is diverting funds from other initiatives such as employment and
homeownership programs to help offset the shortfall. |
|
Scott County Housing and Redevelopment
Authority |
241 |
Expects shortfall of $50,000 for subsidy
payments by end of 2004. Lowering payment standard. Proposing establishing
minimum rent, denying rent increase requests and freezing issuance of new
vouchers. |
|
Missouri |
|
|
|
Excelsior Springs Housing Authority |
166 |
Expect shortfall of about $75 per unit per
month. Lowering payment standard, freezing issuance of turnover vouchers,
and refusing portability moves. If these measures plus reserves are not
sufficient, may have to terminate 15 to 20 vouchers. |
|
Hannibal Housing Authority |
168 |
Expects shortfall of $9.15 per voucher per
month. May refuse to allow families to moves to other jurisdictions if
consistent with HUD regulations. |
|
Jefferson City Housing Authority |
231 |
Expects shortfall of about $23 per voucher per
month. Has stopped issuing vouchers (previously issued about 10 each
month). Lowering payment standard, increasing minimum rent, freezing rent
increases, refusing portability moves. Considering terminating vouchers of
families that have moved to more expensive jurisdictions. |
|
Kansas City Housing Authority |
7,510 |
Lowering payment standard and increasing
minimum rent. |
|
Liberty Housing Authority |
343 |
Expects shortfall of more than $15 per voucher
per month, totaling more than $80,000 by the end of 2004. Freezing
issuance of turnover vouchers. |
|
Lincoln County Housing Authority |
2,734 |
Expects shortfall. Froze issuance of vouchers
in March and in May withdrew vouchers from about 20 families looking for
housing. Lowering payment standard, establishing minimum rent, refusing
portability moves to new jurisdictions unless new agency will “absorb” the
voucher, requiring a parent and a child to share a bedroom. |
|
Phelps County Housing Authority |
756 |
Expects shortfall of nearly $9 per voucher per
month. Lowering payment standard, refusing portability moves (unless
absorbed); increasing minimum rent. Considering limiting rent
increases to flat percentage. |
|
Housing Authority of St. Louis County |
6,237 |
Expects $1,880,000 shortfall by December, and
does not have sufficient reserves to cover. Reducing costs by lowering
payment standard, increasing minimum rent, and denying rent increases.
Temporary freeze on voucher issuance. Agency is uncertain what other steps
it will take if it does not receive additional funds from HUD. |
|
Scotland County Housing Authority |
329 |
Lowering payment standard, establishing minimum
rent, and freezing issuance of turnover vouchers. On May 1 suspended
vouchers of families searching for new units. |
|
Sedalia Housing Authority |
70 |
Expects shortfall of more than $34 per voucher
per month. Lowering payment standard, set minimum rent at $50. |
|
Montana |
|
|
|
Montana Dept of Commerce |
3,653 |
Reducing payment standard
by 12 – 14%, or about $30 - $80/month and setting minimum rent at $50
(affecting 488 households). Will reduce number of families served by 250 -
400 families, probably through attrition, or cut benefits further for
"thousands of low-income families". |
|
Richland County Housing Authority |
92 |
Reduced number of vouchers from 93 to 82
through attrition. |
|
Nebraska |
|
|
|
Beatrice Housing Authority |
161 |
Average costs exceed HUD payments by more than
$10 per voucher per month. Proposing to freeze issuance of turnover
vouchers and refuse portability. |
|
Douglas County Housing Authority |
939 |
Expects $122,000 shortfall. Refusing portability moves as of June 15. |
|
McCook Housing Agency |
73 |
Expects shortfall of more than $20,000.
Will likely deny portability of vouchers, and raise minimum rent from $25
to $50; the agency is awaiting its board’s decision on this action.
May have to reduce number of families assisted by at least 11. |
|
Omaha Housing Authority |
3,698 |
Estimates shortfall of $900,000 to $1 million.
Making recommendations to board to raise minimum rent (from $25 to $50) and
limit portability to reduce number of higher rent placements. |
|
New Hampshire |
|
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New Hampshire Housing Finance Authority
(operates statewide and administers about 30% of the state's vouchers) |
3,217 |
Estimates annual shortfall of approximately
$1.2 - $1.7 million. HUD provided additional funding enabling agency to
pay June rents, but agency has no remaining reserves. Reduced payment
standards effective June 1, 2004. Has frozen issuance of turnover
vouchers. Suspended vouchers from 30 families who had not yet signed
leases under Section 8; these families are receiving temporary assistance
from their local governments and may be permitted to use their vouchers
beginning August 1 if they can find qualifying units under the new reduced
payment standards. Closed admission to Family Self-Sufficiency program.
If HUD does not provide additional funding agency will have to take other
actions to close funding gap. |
|
Nashua Housing Authority |
758 |
Lowering payment standard, increasing minimum
rent to $50. |
|
New Jersey |
|
|
|
Englewood Housing Authority |
501 |
Estimates shortfall at nearly $48 per voucher
per month. Will reduce number of families assisted by at least 20
below authorized level through attrition. Increasing minimum rent. |
|
Madison Housing Authority |
190 |
Expects shortfall. Freezing voucher issuance.
May terminate some vouchers. |
|
Newark Housing Authority |
5,348 |
Freezing voucher issuance. |
|
Secaucus Housing Authority |
250 |
Estimates shortfall of $75 per voucher per
month, totaling about $200,000 by end of 2004. Lowering payment standard
by $163 (for 2-bedroom unit) and freezing issuance of turnover vouchers.
May terminate some 30 portable vouchers. |
|
Woodbridge Housing Authority |
405 |
Funding shortfall due only in part to
overleasing. To reduce costs, lowering payment standard. Issuance of
turnover vouchers has been frozen since late 2003 due to overleasing.
Notified 71 families on May 1 that their voucher subsidies would be
terminated when current leases expired due to insufficient funds.
(Families affected had leases expiring July 1 – September 1, 2004).
Township housing authority commissioners voted to restore funding for the
month of July and August, temporarily averting a hearing in a lawsuit filed
by 14 of the affected families. The 71 families will wait to hear whether
they will be permanently reinstated into the program. |
|
New York |
|
|
|
Babylon Housing Authority |
761 |
Shortfall of
$152 per voucher per month. Has ceased issuing vouchers and have already
reduced number of families served by 20 families. |
|
City of Beacon Housing Authority |
129 |
Expect shortfall of more than $70,000 by end of
2004. Freezing issuance of vouchers (though only 92% leased). Withdrew
vouchers from 8 families searching for housing. |
|
Binghamton Housing Authority |
437 |
Expect shortfall of $102,000 by end of 2004.
Freezing issuance of vouchers (though underleased); considering lowering
payment standard. |
|
Town of Brookhaven Housing Authority |
797 |
Estimates $752,231 shortfall for 2004.
Reserves will not be sufficient to cover. Increasing minimum rent from $25
to $50. Considering adopting admissions preference for working families to
reduce subsidy costs. |
|
Christopher Community, subcontractor
administering Section 8 voucher program for 32 towns and villages in
Onandaga County |
585 |
Freezing issuance of new vouchers. |
|
Erie County Public Housing Authority Consortium |
4,457 |
Expect shortfall. Increasing minimum rents and
asking landlords to keep rents down. |
|
Town of Hempstead Department of Urban Renewal |
423 |
Consider increasing minimum rent. |
|
Mamaroneck Housing Authority |
387 |
Facing a
$115,000 shortfall for the year—at least $20 per voucher per month.
|
|
New Rochelle Municipal Housing Authority |
1,107 |
Estimates its
shortfall at $425,000. No new vouchers issued. |
|
New York City Housing Authority |
89,694 |
Estimates $55
million shortfall. No firm decisions on cost-savings measures pending
appeal process. Freezing issuance of new vouchers. |
|
City of North Tanawanda Public Housing
Authority |
441 |
Expect shortfall of $20,000 by end of 2004.
Increasing minimum rent. |
|
Rochester Housing Authority |
6,482 |
Possible shortfall of nearly $400,000 for 2004
but at this point will cover with reserves. |
|
NY State Division of Housing and Community
Renewal (operates throughout most of state through contractors) |
29,980 |
Will increase
minimum rents from zero to $50 effective 9/1.
Moratorium on
issuing turnover vouchers. |
|
North Carolina |
|
|
|
Asheboro Housing Authority |
783 |
Expects shortfall of nearly $17 per voucher per
month. Reducing 15 vouchers by freezing turnover vouchers, establishing
minimum rent, denying owners’ requests for rent increases, and refusing
portability. |
|
Eastern Carolina Human Services Agency |
737 |
Denying portability moves to higher cost areas;
may increase minimum rent. |
|
Greensboro Housing Authority |
2,598 |
Lowering payment standard, increasing minimum
rent, refusing portability to higher-cost markets. |
|
Johnston County Housing Authority |
619 |
$25,000/month shortfall. Reserves unlikely to
be sufficient to cover shortfall through end of 2004. |
|
Laurinburg Housing Authority |
530 |
Estimate shortfall of nearly $33,000 by the end
of 2004. Considering lowering payment standard, freezing issuance of new
vouchers, and denying portability moves. |
|
Wilmington Housing Authority |
1,572 |
Estimate $1 million shortfall by the end of
agency’s current fiscal year. To cut costs, issuing turnover vouchers
that cost less by preferring disabled/elderly applicants (who usually
require only a one bedroom voucher) and by selecting full 25 percent of new
vouchers to applicants who are not extremely low-income. |
|
North Dakota |
|
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|
Stutsman County Housing Authority |
48 |
Expects shortfall of more than $100,000 by the
end of 2004. Temporarily refusing portability, and proposing to lower
payment standard, establish minimum rent of $50, and stop escrow payments
to non-mandatory FSS participants. |
|
Ohio |
|
|
|
Akron Metropolitan Housing Authority |
3,983 |
Freezing issuance of new vouchers and reducing
voucher payment standard as of 07/01/04. Also reducing number of bedrooms
allowed and adopting admissions preferences for higher income families. |
|
Athens Metropolitan Housing Authority |
698 |
As of July 1, the agency is short funds to pay
for 100 of 698 vouchers. |
|
Bowling Green Housing Authority |
119 |
Expect shortfall of $30,000 by end of 2004.
Lowering payment standard. Proposed establishing minimum rent; considering
freezing vouchers. |
|
Cincinnati Metropolitan Housing Authority |
7,748 |
Increasing minimum rent. |
|
Columbus Housing Authority |
9,735 |
Received sufficient additional reserves from
HUD to avoid terminating vouchers. To reduce future costs, denying
rent increases, lowering payment standards effective 7/1/04, and preferring
smaller families for reissued vouchers. |
|
Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority |
13,502 |
Expects shortfall of $8,800,000 by end of 2004.
Lowering payment standard and not allowing rent increases. May impose
minimum rent. Froze issuance of turnover vouchers. |
|
Lake Metropolitan Housing Authority |
1,358 |
Notified landlords they would not be accepting
rent increases. |
|
Lucas Metropolitan Housing Authority |
3,723 |
Lowering payment standard, increasing minimum
rent, preferring higher income families for admission. |
|
Oregon |
|
|
|
Housing Authority of Portland |
7,445 |
Will reduce number of families served by about
150 through attrition if don’t prevail on appeal. |
|
Northwest Oregon Housing Authority |
1,075 |
News media reported in early May that agency
sent termination notices to 110 households, but status has not been
confirmed. |
|
Pennsylvania |
|
|
|
Bethlehem Housing Authority |
491 |
Drawing on reserves to pay $19,000 monthly
shortfall. Potential to cut back number of vouchers issued if they cannot
get additional funding from HUD. |
|
Chester Housing Authority |
1,433 |
Lowering voucher payment standard, increasing
minimum rent and freezing issuance of new vouchers. |
|
Housing Authority of the County of Dauphin |
1,026 |
Shortfall of nearly $19 per voucher per month.
Lowering voucher payment standard. Establishing minimum rents. Denying
portability moves to higher cost areas. Limiting rent increases for owners
and may eliminate increases altogether. May freeze issuance of new
vouchers. May terminate vouchers. |
|
Providence
Housing Authority |
2,276 |
Lowering
payment standard, recalling vouchers from families searching for units and
freezing issuance of new vouchers. |
|
Lebanon County Housing Authority |
625 |
Expect shortfall of nearly $120,000 by end of
2004. Freeze on rent increases; considering lowering payment
standard. Will reissue vouchers on turnover but will not try to lease
currently unutilized vouchers (about 3% of total). |
|
Washington County Housing Authority |
880 |
Minimum Rent increased from $25 to $50. |
|
Rhode Island |
|
|
|
Providence Housing Authority |
2,276 |
Lowering payment standard, recalling vouchers
from families searching for units and freezing issuance of new vouchers. |
|
Rhode Island Housing |
1,377 |
Expect shortfall of about $13,000. Likely to
deny rent increases to owners that exceed HUD’s inflation factor,
regardless of reasonableness in individual case, and to freeze voucher
payment standard even if HUD increases the FMR in October. Concerned that
these changes will make vouchers more difficult to use (and currently using
only 85%). |
|
Woonsocket Housing Authority |
666 |
Expect shortfall of nearly $30,000 for 2004.
Reducing voucher payment standard and increasing minimum rent from $25 to
$50. Freezing issuance of new vouchers. |
|
Tennessee |
|
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Memphis Housing Authority |
5,238 |
Expecting shortfall of more than $40 per
voucher per month, or about $2.8 million on an annual basis. Reduced payment standard to 90%, limiting
portability, not approving rent increases, reducing bedroom size of
vouchers to lowest allowed. Will not reissue voucher turnovers. Withdrew
vouchers from 160 families searching for housing. |
|
Metropolitan Development and Housing Agency |
5,334 |
Expects shortfall. Refusing portability moves
and preferring working families and elderly and disabled applicants for
admission to reduce average subsidy costs. |
|
Texas |
|
|
|
Boerne Housing Authority |
101 |
Passed a resolution to increase minimum rent to
$50 and dropped payment standard back down to 100% of Fair Market Rent. |
|
Dallas Housing Authority |
15,931 |
City could lose 500 vouchers through attrition
due to funding shortfall. |
|
Garland Housing Authority |
1,463 |
City could lose 177 vouchers through attrition
due to funding shortfall. |
|
Houston Housing Authority |
14,045 |
Project shortfall of $1.66 million for 2004 for
payment of voucher subsidies. Housing Authority frozen issuance of
vouchers. Still considering other options to reduce program costs. |
|
Utah |
|
|
|
Cedar City Housing Authority |
139 |
Cedar City Housing Authority could lose 20
vouchers of 139. |
|
Salt Lake County Housing Authority |
2,129 |
Expect shortfall of more than $1 million.
Reducing voucher payment standard, increasing minimum rent. |
|
Virginia |
|
|
|
Alexandria Redevelopment and Housing Authority |
1,722 |
7% - 10% reduction in funding. Reducing
voucher payment standards effective July 1 by more than $100. Freeze on
issuance of new vouchers. More rigid termination policies for
non-compliance |
|
Roanoke Redevelopment and Housing Authority |
1,318 |
Expect shortfall of more than $200,000.
Lowering payment standard. |
|
Virginia Housing Development Authority |
9,187 |
Expect shortfall of $100,000 by the end of
2004. Withdrew vouchers from families searching for housing that had not
signed leases as of June 30, 2004, despite having about 200 authorized
vouchers not in use. In higher cost areas of the state freezing issuance
of new vouchers. Considering: lowering payment standard and increasing
minimum rent. |
|
Montpelier Housing Authority |
122 |
Shortfall of more than $20 per unit per
month or about $30,000 by the end of 2004. At this point covering
shortfall with reserve funds. |
|
Newport News Redevelopment and Housing
Authority |
2,216 |
Reducing payment standard by $56-$123 for
new applicants and upon annual lease review for current recipients. |
|
Rutland Housing Authority |
70 |
Expect shortfall of more than $13,000 by
the end of 2004. Canceled contract for two project-based voucher units and
withdrew vouchers from two families searching for housing. Proposing to
freeze issuance of turnover vouchers until reduce program by additional 4 –
5 vouchers (in May all 70 vouchers were in use). |
|
St. Albans Housing Authority |
75 |
$22,000 deficit by 12/31/04.
Uncertain whether reserves will be sufficient to cover (may depend on
changes in tenants’ incomes). Payment standard already is set below HUD’s
FMR so concerned that reducing further would hurt the program. |
|
Washington |
|
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|
Housing Authority of Chelan County and City of
Wenatchee |
449 |
Board approved lowering payment standard,
establishing minimum rent and refusing portability when and if staff decide
changes needed. |
|
Everett Housing Authority |
2,363 |
Expect shortfall of about $110,000 for 2004 but
reserves should be sufficient to cover. |
|
Longview Housing Authority |
1,110 |
Drawing on reserves to
cover funding shortfall. Lowering payment standard. Raising minimum rents
from $0 to $50 per month. Will decrease program size by 28 vouchers
through attrition. |
|
Pierce County Housing Authority |
2,607 |
Expecting shortfall of $458,000 for the year
ending December 2004 due to HUD funding at substantially less than actual
costs. Withdrew vouchers from 250 families searching for housing on May 1
and froze issuance of new vouchers. Lowering payment standards,
establishing minimum rent of $50 and refusing portability moves. Sent
termination notices to 229 families on July 1, 2004, effective September 1,
2004, but subsequently received about $560,000 in additional reserve funds
from HUD, which will enable the agency to rescind the termination notices. |
|
Spokane Housing Authority |
4,505 |
Expect shortfall. Lowering payment standard,
establishing minimum rent of $25. Suspended right of families searching
for housing with vouchers to lease-up for at least two months. May freeze
issuance of new vouchers and deny portability moves. |
|
Tacoma Housing Authority |
3,524 |
Expect shortfall of about $1.6 million by the
end of December. Withdrew vouchers from 180 families searching for
housing and froze issuance of new vouchers (except for commitments to
project-based voucher contracts and to relocate families from HOPE VI
development). Reducing voucher payment standard effective August 1
(including for in-place tenants) and implementing minimum rent of $25.
Seeking voluntary rent reductions from landlords. Denying portability
moves that will cost more. Changing admissions preferences to select
somewhat higher income households (now targets poorer families to greater
extent than required by federal law). Obtained loan of $250,000 from
City of Tacoma to avoid terminating families while appeal to HUD for
additional funding. As a last resort may have to terminate vouchers
for 375 families. |
|
Housing Authority of Thurston County |
1,894 |
Shortfall of more than $10 per voucher per
month, or about $200,000 by the end of 2004. Considering: lowering payment
standard and increasing minimum rent. (Due to overleasing, had already
frozen issuance of new vouchers and delayed start of project-based voucher
contract for six units.) |
|
Vancouver Housing Authority |
1,943 |
Expect shortfall of $214,000; uncertain whether
reserves will be sufficient to cover it. |
|
Wisconsin |
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|
Hartford Community Development Agency |
148 |
Expect shortfall of $25,000 by December.
Increasing minimum rent, may freeze issuance of new vouchers (except may be
obligated to continue to issue available Family Unification Program
vouchers). If necessary would borrow from excess operating funds at an
agency-owned building to avoid terminating any vouchers. |
|
Madison Housing Authority |
1,598 |
May have to eliminate 100 vouchers probably
through attrition, other options include reducing voucher payment standard. |
|
Wausau Community Development Authority |
395 |
Freezing issuance of new vouchers. May
reduce payments requiring some families to pay more in rent. |
