Rental assistance programs are offered to those living in the United States to provide affordable rent and flexible accommodations to fit participant need. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, often called Department of Housing and Urban Development or HUD for short, offer three types of rental assistance programs that include privately owned subsidized housing, public housing, and the Housing Choice Voucher Program. “Privately owned subsidized housing is a program in which apartment owners offer reduced rents to low-income tenants with the help of HUD. Public housing provides affordable apartments for low-income families, the elderly and those with disabilities. Lastly, the Housing Choice Voucher Program, otherwise know …show more content…
The housing choice voucher allows a housing subsidy to be paid directly to the landlord on behalf of a local public housing agency. The public housing agency is able to make payments as the Department of Housing and Urban Development federally funds the voucher program. After the subsidy is paid the participant pays the difference between the actual rent and that paid by the subsidy. Upon receiving the housing voucher the public housing agency determines a payment standard for the local housing market chosen by the voucher participant. The payment standard, however doesn’t limit the amount a landlord may charge or the voucher holder’s portion of payment. “The housing voucher family [participant] must pay 30% of its monthly adjusted gross income for rent and utilities, and if the unit rent is greater than the payment standard the family is required to pay the additional amount” (Housing Choice, n.d.). This is a general requirement and specific public housing agencies may have slightly different requirements. In Cuyahoga County, “Under the rental voucher program, the family [participant] is generally required to pay approximately 30% of adjusted monthly income toward rent and utilities. The Housing Assistance Payment made by CMHA [Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority] to the owner generally pays the remainder” (HCVP, 2015). Eligibility for a housing voucher may vary from state-to-state, but is generally determined by
The Public Policy Institute states that Section 8 project-based rental assistance contracts involving HUD and for-profit owners contracting private multifamily housing, which is made available by HUD to low-income households who qualify for housing assistance. The subsidy is such that pays the difference "between 30 percent of the household's income and the contract rent; the subsidy is paid by HUD to the landlord." (AARP Public Policy Institute, 2002) In addition, HUD has Dispersal programs for renters of Section 8 housing due to the desire of the public to avoid to concentration of poverty-level residents in urban areas. This is because there is a general consensus that Section 8 subsidized housing tends to drive down the market prices of property in the same area. There are various challenges that are faced by the Section 8 subsidized housing program as it assists low-income households obtain appropriate housing through the provision of rental assistance.
Participants will then receive a voucher from the Housing Choice Voucher Program (HCVP), in which they can use in any housing as long as it meets the requirements of the program (Weslaco Housing Authority, 2017). For example, if a unit costs $1,800 and the participants voucher is for $1,350, the participant is then responsible to pay for the difference of $450. There is a shortage of low-income housing, due to this participants are then placed on a waiting list which is determined by the date and time the application was received by the Weslaco Housing Authority.
There are a number of Medicaid sections and demonstration programs that allow reimbursement for housing-related services to promote community integration. Authorities and programs that allow reimbursement include: 1915(c) HCBS Waivers, 1915(i) HCBS State Plan Optional Benefit, 1915(1b) Community First Choice State Plan optional Benefit, 1915(b) Waivers, 1905(a) State Plan Services, Section 1115 Research and Demonstration Programs and Money Follows the Person demonstration.1Some of these authorities offer greater coverage opportunity than others.1 Medicaid offices have the opportunity to play an important role in convening state program offices and other partners to identify other non-Medicaid funding sources to support
The DC government has been implementing Rapid Re-Housing programs in response to the homelessness crisis that the nation’s capital has been facing for years. The Rapid Re-Housing models were implemented across the country through the Homeless Prevention and Rapid Rehousing Program (HPRP), as part of the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act (ARRA) of 2009 (Anderson, 2015). Rapid Re-Housing is mainly an intervention, informed by a Housing First approach. Housing First is a critical part of the community’s effective homeless crisis response system (Anderson, 2015). The program attempts to connect families and individuals experiencing homelessness to permanent housing through personalized programs of assistance that may include the use of limited-time
The educational gap between low-income children and the average American presents a serious problem that has only been perpetuated through government-funded public housing projects. Indeed, this divide eventually translates to a disparity of college acceptance rates and job placement rates. Thus, the academic success of children from low-income families directly threatens their upward mobility. A continued shift toward increased tenant-based housing would give families the opportunity to move out of their economically segregated neighborhoods and choose the neighborhood that best meets their children’s needs. Indeed, despite the Housing Choice voucher program’s current flaws, in each of the case studies, the housing choice vouchers have resulted
To achieve the goal of ending homelessness among veterans by 2015, the VA has numerous programs. These include providing healthcare, rehabilitation services, employment assistance, and transitional housing for veterans, and supportive services for the families of veterans to help them better understand and deal with conditions the veteran spouse may have. Additionally, the VA works with the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to provide long-term housing solutions for homeless veterans (Homeless Veterans, For Homeless Veterans).
Often, when someone can’t afford housing prices, they will apply for low-income housing prices that will
For instance, housing plans, housing plans that offer food, shelter, and clothes, and even nonprofit, and social, organizations to help fund housing developments. There are even organizations that offer help with financial issues as well. “Coal for the Homeless.” Coalitionforthehomeless.org, n.d. Mon. 16 Nov. 2015. : Long-term housing solutions, “Financial housing programs are one of the most successful housing-based solutions to reduce homelessness. The two largest federal housing programs are public housing and federal housing vouchers…” Jim Romeo. “Gale Group.” Poverty and Homeless, 2009. Mon. 16 Nov. 2015. : There’s a new strategy, “...the newly homeless get shelter, food, clothing, and access to government and nonprofit services.””Here’s How We Can Fight Homelessness.” Center For American Progress Action Fund, 2005-2015. Mon. 16 Nov. 2015. : Mainstream sources need to be looked into by individual communities to help aid their own homeless people, such as, “Medicaid or Temporary Aid to Needy Families (TANF).” How many people are homeless in
This all seems great, a savior program that allows people who cannot afford to pay rent normally. Section 8 is utilized by the elderly, disabled, and families with and without children but is it really a golden program? Stated above, section 8 provides for vouchers for all types of apartments and even condos in certain states; however, are these opportunities open to all races? 41.6 percent of African Americans are on housing assistance programs, as in this county’s displaced history on minorities, the voucher program produces elements that affect minorities. Although African Americans make up the overall higher percentage when it comes to housing assistance programs, according to National Low-Income Housing Coalition, surprisingly Caucasians make up 49 percent of the project-based section 8. Yet, National Low-Income Housing Coalition mentions that African Americans as of 2010 shows that black and Hispanic public housing residents are four times more likely than their Caucasian counterparts public housing residents to live in high-poverty neighborhoods. Black and Hispanic voucher recipients are about three times as likely as their white counterparts to live in high-poverty neighborhoods. Analyzing this data; furthermore, as of 2010, 28 percent of white voucher recipients live in the lowest poverty neighborhoods! Reviewing this data Caucasians obtains overall nationwide more voucher approvals that African Americans living in the highest of poverty neighborhoods and that comes
The Aviation & Transportation Security Act of 2001 was the act that created the TSA. However, the ATSA also created a conflict of interest within the TSA. Ybarra (2013) described the problem within the TSA as an, “agency that establishes transportation security policy and regulates those that provide transportation operations and infrastructure (airlines, airports, railroads, transit systems, etc.). But on the other hand, TSA itself is the operator of the largest component of airport security: passenger and baggage screening.”
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to elderly persons with low income status include: the Housing Choice Voucher Program, the HOPE for elderly independence program, the Rural Housing Services Rental Assistance Program, Local Rental Assistance Programs and the Section 202 Supportive Housing for the Elderly Program.
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Within each service area there is a host of many options available. Specifically, under the Public and Indian Housing is the Housing Choice Voucher Program, commonly referred to as Section 8 Housing. Section 8 is the federal government's major program for access to very low-income families, the elderly, and the disabled to afford suitable, safe, and sanitary housing in the private market. Housing choice vouchers are administered by the local public housing agencies (PHAs). The
The Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 enacted a voucher program, the Section 8 Housing Allowance program that has since been renamed the Housing Choice Voucher program (HCV). In the original program vouchers were sent directly to qualifying landlords, however, in 1988, the terms were changed so that the tenants now receive the vouchers. Tenants were given more leeway in where and how the vouchers could be used (Teater, 2008).