| Opening Doors A HOUSING PUBLICATION FOR THE DISABILITY COMMUNITY |
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SEPTEMBER 2004 |
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Section 8 Problems Negatively Affect People With DisabilitiesBy Emily Cooper and Ann O'Hara Introduction
The federal Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program is critically important to people with disabilities. Proposals made this year by the Bush Administration will seriously undermine the voucher program if they are adopted by Congress. Highlighted in Section 8 At Risk!, the March 2004 issue of Opening Doors, these proposals could cut over $1.6 billion from the Section 8 budget and convert the program to a block grant administered by Public Housing Agencies (PHAs). This issue of Opening Doors provides a status report on the Section 8 voucher program, including up-to-the-minute information on three important topics:
Most importantly, this issue is about how readers of Opening Doors can help to remedy these serious problems and also help to advocate for new Section 8 vouchers in the federal budget. The Technical Assistance Collaborative, Inc. (TAC) and the Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities Housing Task Force (CCD Housing Task Force) – the publishers of Opening Doors – believe that the entire disability community must join with other interest groups to protect and expand the Section 8 program, both now and in the future. Toward that end, this issue provides specific and detailed “advocacy action steps” that can be implemented at both the local and federal levels to ensure the future of this vitally important federal housing program. If you care about decent, safe, affordable, and accessible housing for people with disabilities, we need your help and we need it now! |
A publication of the
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Sample Letter to Congress
Dear ___________, The XYZ Disability organization is writing to urge your immediate and continued support for the federal Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program. Current HUD proposals, if enacted into law, would dismantle this highly successful federal housing program and cut $1.6 billion from its budget. These proposals would cause irreparable harm to 440,000 people with disabilities who currently have vouchers and to millions more who need vouchers to live in the community. Over three million non-elderly people with disabilities currently receive federal Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits and have incomes equal to only 18 percent of the median income. Section 8 Housing Choice vouchers are now virtually the only federal resource available to help people with disabilities leave institutional settings, board and care homes, homeless shelters, and other costly facilities. It is estimated that hundreds of thousands of adults with disabilities are still living at home with aging parents who are in their 70s and 80s. They need vouchers in order to have stable housing in the community once their families can no longer provide housing for them. These facts illustrate the critical need for more vouchers to be provided by Congress, rather than the need to cut the program’s funding. People with disabilities and other vulnerable low-income groups should not have to bear the burden of federal tax cuts that benefit the highest-income households. We urge your support for this extremely important program. Sincerely, XYZ Disability Organization
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The Section 8 Housing Choice
Voucher program is, without a doubt, the most important federal housing program
in the
The Section 8 voucher program works by providing monthly rental assistance payments to private landlords. It is not an entitlement program and there are long waiting lists for Section 8 assistance. But the long wait is definitely worth it!
Households obtain Section 8
vouchers primarily through a network of 2,600 PHAs across the country.
With a voucher, a household selects housing in the private rental market
and typically pays between 30 – 40 percent of income toward the rent. The
balance of the rent is paid by the PHA directly to the landlord with Section 8
voucher program funds from HUD. People
with disabilities receiving Supplemental Security Income (SSI) typically pay
between $150 – $200 per month towards monthly housing costs when they receive
assistance through the Section 8 program.
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For More Information
... For more information on how the voucher program works, refer to the following TAC publications available on TAC’s website (www.tacinc.org):
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The Section 8 voucher program
has become increasingly important – and increasingly available – to people
with disabilities over the past eight years.
According to HUD data, participation in the voucher program by people
with disabilities in recent years has almost doubled.
In the early 1990s, approximately 11 percent of the Section 8 vouchers[1]
funded by Congress were being used by households with disabilities.
Today, an estimated 22 percent of Section 8 vouchers are assisting people
with disabilities. In real numbers,
this means that approximately 440,000 of the two million vouchers now being used
are assisting people with disabilities – a significant increase in a
relatively short time period.
There are two key reasons for the increase in the number of people with disabilities who receive housing assistance under the Section 8 voucher program:
Because 440,000 people with disabilities currently have Section 8 vouchers, the disability community has a much bigger “stake” in the outcomes of any proposed changes to the voucher program. Certainly, without vouchers, many of these 440,000 households would undoubtedly be homeless. In addition to concerns about current voucher holders, there are thousands and thousands of people with disabilities on PHA voucher waiting lists who would be adversely affected by the changes to the program being proposed by HUD. Finally, there are several million people with disabilities with SSI-level incomes who need housing assistance. The Section 8 program must be expanded in order to help address this need. So the stakes are high indeed.
Major changes in the voucher
program, whether they concern funding levels or how the program works, are
decided in
There is also more at stake for
people with disabilities in the voucher program than the outcomes of current
Section 8 policy and budget battles in
As mentioned earlier, the March 2004 issue of Opening Doors (available online at www.tacinc.org/index/admin/index/_uploads/docs/ACF10D7.pdf) described HUD’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2005 budget proposal to cut more than $1.6 billion from the voucher program – a funding cut of approximately 12 percent. That issue also provided an analysis of HUD’s Flexible Voucher Program proposal to convert the Section 8 voucher program to a federal block grant administered by PHAs. If enacted, these proposals would cause great harm to people with disabilities.
Last year, a similar effort by
the Administration to convert the Section 8 voucher program to a
state-administered block grant – the so-called Housing Assistance for Needy
Families program – was rejected by Congress, after strong opposition was
expressed by advocates from both housing and human services groups at the
national and local levels. These HUD
block grant proposals demonstrate the Administration’s budgetary goal to
“downsize” the federal government’s commitment to provide affordable
housing funding for the lowest-income people. In fact, HUD officials have
recently stated publicly that the Section 8 program should be targeted to
households with incomes above 30 percent of median income, rather than continue
to be targeted to the lowest-income people!
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During the past few months, while Congress has been considering HUD’s latest Section 8 block grant proposal and the $1.6 billion cut in funding for the upcoming fiscal year, HUD has been busy causing serious fiscal problems with PHAs’ Section 8 voucher program funding for this fiscal year. To advocates who have been involved with the Section 8 program for many years, it appears that HUD is determined – through one method or another – to undermine one of the most successful federal housing programs ever created. An update on the status of HUD’s Section 8 proposals for next year, as well as information on the current Section 8 fiscal problems for PHAs, is provided below.
Although the struggle to preserve the Section 8 voucher program is far from over, advocates finally received some good news in July when the U. S. House of Representatives Appropriations Committee rejected HUD’s Section 8 voucher program budget cuts and its Flexible Voucher Program proposal. The Committee acted in response to a sustained advocacy effort from around the country, including actions by advocates for people with disabilities. Unfortunately, in order to fully fund all current Section 8 vouchers that are leased, the Committee cut most of HUD’s other programs by 4.3 percent, including the Section 811 Supportive Housing for Persons with Disabilities program, the McKinney/Vento Homeless Assistance programs, and the HOME program.
The full House has not yet acted on the Appropriation’s Committee recommendations for the Section 8 voucher program. The Senate has also not acted on any HUD appropriations legislation, which means that the Section 8 battle. To add to the uncertainty, Congress may not be able to reach agreement on a final federal budget for FY 2005 until after the November elections.
These federal funding decisions facing Congress cannot be put off forever. Housing advocates at both the national and local levels must remain vigilant and continue to advocate to preserve and expand the Section 8 voucher program. Cuts to Section 8 funding and some version of the Flexible Voucher Program may be “back on the table” for discussion before the FY 2005 budget process finally concludes. Once FY 2005’s budget is a reality, advocates for people with disabilities must be prepared to work even harder so that new Section 8 vouchers can be obtained in the FY 2006 budget – a process that will begin in early 2005.
In addition to concerns about the FY 2005 HUD budget, Section 8 advocates have also been trying to deal with serious fiscal problems at many PHAs related to their current Section 8 budget for this fiscal year. Shortfalls in Section 8 funding for vouchers currently leased are occurring at many PHAs and will continue to be a problem through the Fall of 2004. These problems are forcing many PHAs to:
· Consider terminating vouchers currently under lease;
· “Hold” unleased vouchers rather than issue them to households on the Section 8 waiting lists;
· Immediately lower rents to landlords;
· Eventually raise tenant rents; and/or
· Make other changes that will ultimately reduce landlord participation and make it much more difficult for vouchers to be used.
The fiscal problems of PHA voucher programs are complex but are primarily an outcome of new HUD policies announced in an April 22 HUD Notice to PHAs (PIH Notice 2004-7: Implementation of FFY 2004 Consolidated Appropriations Act Provisions for the Housing Choice Voucher Program). HUD has stated that these new policies are mandated by Congress, and that HUD is merely following Congressional instructions, but many Members of Congress disagree with HUD’s actions. Advocates believe that HUD’s willingness to provoke complete fiscal chaos in PHAs’ Section 8 voucher programs and – more importantly – cause two million low-income households to worry about the security of their housing voucher – is completely indefensible.
As PHAs began to run out of funds in June of 2004, HUD did modify its fiscal guidance somewhat, but not until after many Section 8 voucher holders were put at risk of losing their vouchers. As we go to press with this issue in August of 2004, these serious fiscal problems may continue to plague some PHAs across the nation. Until this problem is finally resolved, some PHAs are at risk of not receive all the funding they need to pay for all vouchers currently leased.
The disability community must remain vigilant and active in its advocacy efforts around Section 8 vouchers. Congress is beginning to get the message that the Section 8 program is important to many constituencies – including people with disabilities. But more advocacy is needed to protect the program now and expand the program in the future.
If you have not yet contacted
your members of Congress to underscore the importance of the Section 8 voucher
program for people with disabilities and urge their support for full funding,
please do it now! A sample letter to
Congress is included on page 2. If
you have already expressed your support, we recommend that you continue to pay
attention to Section 8 program related developments in
You can also contact your PHA to
find out whether they are being negatively effected by HUD’s new fiscal
policies for the voucher program. You
can begin this conversation with your PHA by asking this simple question:
“Will the PHA’s Section 8 program be adversely effected by HUD’s
Another critical Section 8 problem that the disability community can help to remedy is HUD’s continuing mismanagement of approximately 60,000 Section 8 disability vouchers. These valuable housing resources were created by Congress specifically for people with disabilities. Despite this Congressional mandate, many of these vouchers may have been given to households without disabilities. Housing advocates for people with disabilities can help re-direct these vouchers to people with disabilities by helping to educate and monitor the PHAs that administer them.
These disability vouchers fall into two basic categories:
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Basics of Mainstream Section 8
Vouchers Funded Since 1997, Congress has funded over 12,000 tenant-based vouchers from the Section 811 Supportive Housing for Persons with Disabilities program. HUD “converts” this funding into Section 8 vouchers and awards the vouchers to both PHAs and non-profit disability organizations that apply through an annual NOFA. This NOFA is extremely important because it is the only program guidance HUD has ever provided to the agencies administering Section 811-funded Mainstream vouchers. PHAs can tell the difference between 811-funded Mainstream vouchers and all other Section 8 vouchers by the fact that 811-funded vouchers are the only Section 8 vouchers administered by PHAs that have five-year Annual Contributions Contracts (ACCs). An ACC is HUD’s legal contract with a PHA for the Section 8 voucher program. The table on page 8 lists all PHAs that administer five-year Section 811-funded Mainstream vouchers. Because they are funded
from the Section 811 program, which by law dedicated exclusively to
people with disabilities, it is illegal for a PHA to provide one of
these vouchers to a non-disabled household.
Nonetheless, there is evidence of serious problems with the
administration of the Mainstream voucher program including the
following:
During the past year, Congress has become increasingly concerned about problems with the Section 8 Mainstream program. More information is needed, however, to determine exactly how serious these problems may be. Disability advocates can help to collect this information and also to advocate with PHAs for the proper use of these vouchers. |
Although there are very specific aspects of HUD’s mismanagement of disability vouchers, these problems can be summed up in one simple sentence: HUD has done an extremely poor job communicating with PHAs regarding disability vouchers. In fact, until recently, no HUD program guidance on these vouchers set aside for people with disabilities had been issued by HUD other than the original Notices of Funding Availability (NOFAs), some of which were published as far back as 1997!
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Despite the recent HUD’s Notice, many PHAs may still:
HUD’s lack of comprehensive guidance to PHAs means that disability housing advocates must first help PHAs determine if they have any vouchers from one or more of these disability set-aside programs. To assist with this task we are publishing the complete list of PHAs with set-aside vouchers in this issue of Opening Doors. If a PHA in your area is listed, disability advocates should contact them as soon as possible. Bring this issue of Opening Doors with you so that the PHA can see exactly what disability vouchers HUD awarded them in prior years.
Section
8 Mainstream Housing Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities Program
(Section 811-funded vouchers with five-year renewable Annual Contributions
Contracts)
|
HOUSING AGENCY |
VOUCHERS |
YEAR AWARDED |
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Housing
Authority of |
50 |
‘03 |
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Housing
Authority of |
75 |
‘99 |
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Mobile
Housing Board |
100 |
‘97 |
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|
|
125 |
‘00,
‘03 |
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City
of |
100 |
‘97 |
|
City
of |
75 |
‘02 |
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Mohave
|
50 |
‘00 |
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Pima
|
50 |
‘00 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
75 |
‘02 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
225 |
‘97,
‘01, ‘03 |
|
City
of |
42 |
‘03 |
|
City
of |
30 |
‘02 |
|
|
38 |
‘97 |
|
|
100 |
‘98 |
|
|
53 |
‘00 |
|
Housing
Authority of the City of |
75 |
‘99 |
|
Housing
Authority of the |
50 |
‘03 |
|
|
175 |
‘98,
‘01 |
|
|
100 |
‘00,
‘01 |
|
|
|
|
|
Center
for People with Disabilities* |
75 |
‘02 |
|
CO
Department of Human Services |
50 |
‘03 |
|
CO
Division of Housing |
50 |
‘03 |
|
|
75 |
‘00 |
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Larimer
|
65 |
‘02 |
|
|
|
|
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CT
Department of Social Services |
150 |
‘99,
‘01 |
|
|
75 |
‘00 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
30 |
‘99 |
|
|
100 |
‘97 |
|
|
|
|
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Community
Connections* |
150 |
‘01,
‘02 |
|
|
|
|
|
Alachua
|
75 |
‘01 |
|
Boley
Centers for Behavioral Health Care* |
181 |
‘99,
‘01, ‘03 |
|
Broward
|
50 |
‘03 |
|
Carrfour
Supportive Housing* |
50 |
‘03 |
|
|
75 |
‘97 |
|
Housing
Partnership* |
75 |
‘00 |
|
Miami-Dade
Housing Authority |
75 |
‘99 |
|
|
75 |
‘00 |
|
|
|
|
|
GA
Department of Community Affairs |
75 |
‘02 |
|
Housing
Authority of the City of |
50 |
‘03 |
|
Housing
Authority of the City of |
75 |
‘01,
‘02 |
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Rockmart
Housing Authority |
58 |
‘02 |
|
|
|
|
|
City
and |
175 |
‘98,
‘01 |
|
|
|
|
|
ID
Housing and Finance Association |
75 |
‘01 |
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Illionois |
|
|
|
|
50 |
‘03 |
|
Housing
Authority of the |
50 |
‘03 |
|
|
75 |
‘02 |
|
|
75 |
‘99 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
75 |
‘01 |
|
Crawfordsville
Housing Authority |
20 |
‘02 |
|
|
|
|
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Sek-Cap,
Inc. |
75 |
‘02 |
|
|
75 |
‘01 |
|
|
|
|
|
Housing
Authority of |
25 |
‘98 |
|
KY
Housing Corporation |
75 |
‘02 |
|
|
|
|
|
Community
Support Programs* |
58 |
‘99 |
|
Housing
Authority of |
75 |
‘98 |
|
Housing
Authority of |
25 |
‘97 |
|
Pilgrim
Rest Community Development* |
75 |
‘00 |
|
|
|
|
|
Augusta
Housing Authority |
50 |
‘99 |
|
|
15 |
‘99 |
|
Westbrook
Housing Authority |
100 |
‘97 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
100 |
‘97 |
|
ARC
Northern |
75 |
‘99 |
|
Housing
Authority of the City of |
50 |
‘98 |
|
MD
Department of Housing and Community Development |
60 |
‘99 |
|
|
|
|
|
American
Training* |
50 |
‘03 |
|
|
14 |
‘03 |
|
|
75 |
‘02 |
|
Community
TeamWork* |
43 |
‘01 |
|
Greater
|
125 |
‘01,
‘03 |
|
|
25 |
‘98 |
|
|
75 |
‘00 |
|
MA
Department of Housing and Community Development |
75 |
‘99 |
|
|
75 |
‘01 |
|
|
75 |
‘00 |
|
The
|
35 |
99 |
|
|
25 |
98 |
|
|
|
|
|
Housing
Services for |
75 |
01 |
|
Ingham
|
100 |
98 |
|
|
50 |
97 |
|
|
|
|
|
HRA
of the City of Saint Paul PHA |
100 |
98 |
|
Mental
Health Resources* |
75 |
02 |
|
|
15 |
99 |
|
Scott
Carver Dakota CAP Agency* |
50 |
02 |
|
South
Metro Human Services* |
75 |
02 |
|
|
|
|
|
Community
Housing Network* |
75 |
99 |
|
|
100 |
97 |
|
|
|
|
|
Douglas
|
125 |
98,
01 |
|
|
|
|
|
Accessible
Space* |
75 |
01 |
|
NV
Rural Housing Authority |
150 |
01,
02 |
|
|
|
|
|
Harbor
Homes* |
75 |
00 |
|
|
50 |
97 |
|
|
|
|
|
Collaborative
Support Programs of NJ* |
75 |
00 |
|
Community
Enterprises Corporation* |
50 |
03 |
|
Hunterdon
|
50 |
98 |
|
|
50 |
03 |
|
|
200 |
97,
98 |
|
NJ
Department of Community Affairs |
66 |
00 |
|
|
|
|
|
Barrier
Free Futures* |
20 |
99 |
|
Truth
or Consequences Housing Authority |
20 |
97 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
75 |
99 |
|
|
25 |
98 |
|
Family
and Children Association* |
50 |
03 |
|
|
30 |
99 |
|
Mercy
Haven* |
36 |
99 |
|
NY
City Housing Authority |
100 |
97 |
|
NY
Society for the Deaf* |
150 |
99,
00 |
|
Options
for Community Living* |
75 |
01 |
|
|
150 |
99,
01 |
|
Southern
Tier Environment for Living* |
25 |
99 |
|
Town
of |
175 |
98,
00 |
|
Town
of |
10 |
98 |
|
Transitional
Services for |
75 |
02 |
|
|
|
|
|
Eastern
Carolina Human Services Agency |
75 |
01 |
|
Housing
Authority of |
50 |
97 |
|
|
|
|
|
Columbiana
Metropolitan Housing Authority |
75 |
02 |
|
|
75 |
99 |
|
Cuyahoga
Metropolitan Housing Authority |
125 |
02,
03 |
|
Emerald
Development & Economic Network ( |
50 |
03 |
|
Fayette
Metropolitan Housing Authority |
75 |
99 |
|
Hancock
Metropolitan Housing Authority |
75 |
00 |
|
Marion
Metropolitan Housing Authority |
75 |
02 |
|
New
Avenues for |
75 |
99 |
|
|
75 |
01 |
|
|
|
|
|
Clackamas
|
75 |
00 |
|
Coos-Curry
Housing Authority |
50 |
99,
01 |
|
Housing
Authority of |
10 |
99 |
|
Housing
Authority of the City of |
50 |
97 |
|
Josephine
Housing and Community Development |
75 |
99 |
|
|
|
|
|
1260
Housing Development Corporation* |
50 |
03 |
|
Allegheny
|
49 |
03 |
|
Blair
|
22 |
97 |
|
|
50 |
97 |
|
Carbon
|
15 |
00 |
|
Clarion
|
100 |
97 |
|
|
10 |
00 |
|
|
50 |
03 |
|
|
|
|
|
Gateway
HealthCare* |
75 |
99 |
|
|
75 |
99 |
|
|
|
|
|
Housing
Authority of the City of |
69 |
00 |
|
|
|
|
|
Housing
Authority of Crossville |
12 |
99 |
|
Knoxville
Community Development Corp. |
100 |
97 |
|
Metropolitan
Development and Housing Agency |
75 |
02 |
|
TN
Housing Development Agency |
50 |
03 |
|
|
|
|
|
Austin
Housing Authority |
59 |
02 |
|
City
of |
80 |
98,
02 |
|
Housing
Authority of |
125 |
99,
03 |
|
Housing
Authority of |
75 |
02 |
|
Housing
Authority of |
100 |
98 |
|
Housing
Authority of the City of |
50 |
03 |
|
San
Antonio Housing Authority |
100 |
98 |
|
|
|
|
|
Beaver
|
15 |
99 |
|
|
25 |
97 |
|
|
75 |
00 |
|
|
|
|
|
VT
State Housing Authority |
200 |
98 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
75 |
02 |
|
|
75 |
02 |
|
|
75 |
00 |
|
Piedmont
Housing |
75 |
99 |
|
|
46 |
02 |
|
VA
Housing Development Authority |
100 |
97 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
75 |
99 |
|
Housing
Authority of |
75 |
01 |
|
Housing
Authority of the City of |
75 |
00 |
|
Housing
Authority of |
75 |
99 |
|
King
County Housing Authority |
150 |
98,
03 |
|
|
75 |
01 |
|
|
|
|
|
Housing
Authority of the City of |
39 |
97 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
75 |
99 |
TAC and the CCD Housing Task Force have developed an estimate of the negative effect of HUD’s mismanagement of these 60,000 disability vouchers. We estimate that between 10,000 and 20,000 disability vouchers may have been given in error to non-disabled households by PHAs.
This estimate was derived by estimating the percentage of these vouchers that would “turn over” each year and be available for a new person with a disability on the Section 8 waiting list. Turnover vouchers are those vouchers that have already been given out (or “issued”) to a household and – for numerous reasons – the voucher is “returned” to the PHA. When this happens, the turnover voucher can then be re-issued to an applicant on the waiting list.
Congress has been very clear with HUD that when any of these 60,000 disability vouchers turns over they should be re-issued to people with disabilities. Typically, about 5 percent to 10 percent of a PHA’s vouchers will turnover in the course of a year. By applying these turnover rates to the disability vouchers available every year since 1997, TAC has estimated that if 5 percent of the available vouchers turned over in any given year, and if this turnover was not redirected to people with disabilities as Congress intended, it is possible that 10,000 people with disabilities have not been assisted. This estimate increases to 20,000 vouchers if a 10 percent turnover rate is used.
Sample Letter to PHA:
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Section
8 Director Dear
Section 8 Director, According
to the enclosed Opening Doors publication, in recent
years Anytown Housing Authority has been awarded ## vouchers for
people with disabilities from the U.S. Department of Housing and
Urban Development (HUD). I
am writing to you to obtain more information about these
vouchers. Specifically,
I
am working to ensure that there is safe, decent, and affordable
housing for people with disabilities.
This information will be extremely helpful in determining
what resources are available for people with disabilities in
Anytown. Thank
you in advance for your assistance. Sincerely, Helpful Disability Organization |
Local and state disability organizations, advocates, and self-advocates can help TAC and the CCD Housing Task Force ensure that these 60,000 disability vouchers continue to be set aside exclusively for people with disabilities:
→ Using the list of PHAs with disability vouchers provided in this issue, find out if PHAs in your geographic area were awarded these vouchers by HUD. Keep in mind that these HUD awards were made starting in 1997, and that every single voucher is still funded by Congress.
→ If you determine that one or more PHAs in your locality received a HUD award of disability vouchers, you can contact the PHA to learn the status of these vouchers. To maintain a written record, it is best to contact the PHA in writing (see sample letter on page 10). Make sure to include a copy of HUD’s PIH Notice 2004-13 (available online at www. hudclips.org) with your written request.
→ If possible, have other disability organizations join you in this effort. Recently, a California-based disability coalition wrote a letter that helped identify a PHA that had received 75 disability vouchers in 1999 and was no longer setting them aside for people with disabilities on the Section 8 waiting list. The PHA and the disability coalition are now working together to correct this problem. Not surprisingly, the California PHA was completely unaware of the directive from Congress to continue to set aside these vouchers for people with disabilities.
→
If you receive a written or verbal response from the PHA
indicating that the PHA is not continuing to maintain these disability vouchers
as a set-aside, please let TAC know. The
best way to contact us is by e-mailing TAC’s Technical Assistance Coordinator
→
You should also arrange to meet with the PHA and bring this issue
of Opening Doors and a copy of HUD’s
PIH Notice 2004-13 with you to the meeting.
Advise them to contact their Local HUD Section 8 staff to confirm the
policy outlined in this issue of Opening
Doors. If that does not work
(and it may not), request that the PHA contact HUD Headquarters at (202)
708-2934 and speak to
If your PHA is continuing to maintain these disability vouchers as a set-aside for people with disabilities, please thank them for their efforts! Because HUD never informed PHAs in writing of this requirement, it is likely that the PHA made this positive decision on their own. They should be congratulated for continuing to be responsive to the housing needs of people with disabilities!
[1] This statistic includes Section 8 vouchers as well as Section 8 certificates – which were merged into one voucher program by Congress in 1998.
Section
8 Vouchers for People with Disabilities
(Vouchers with one-year renewable Annual Contributions Contracts)
|
HOUSING
AGENCY |
VOUCHERS |
YEAR
AWARDED |
|
|
|
|
|
Housing Authority of |
93 |
‘98,’99 |
|
Housing
Authority of |
1 |
‘01 |
|
Housing
Authority of the City of |
100 |
‘02 |
|
Housing
Authority of |
34 |
‘98 |
|
Mobile
Housing Board |
122 |
‘00 |
|
|
|
|
|
City
of |
150 |
‘00,’01 |
|
City
of |
200 |
‘98 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
125 |
‘02 |
|
|
100 |
‘98 |
|
|
100 |
‘98 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
75 |
‘99 |
|
|
75 |
‘99 |
|
|
75 |
‘99 |
|
City
of |
75 |
‘99 |
|
City
of |
100 |
‘98 |
|
City
of |
200 |
‘02 |
|
City
of |
100 |
‘98 |
|
City
of |
34 |
‘98 |
|
City
of |
75 |
‘99 |
|
City
of |
100 |
‘98 |
|
City
of |
100 |
‘97 |
|
|
200 |
‘98 |
|
|
75 |
‘99 |
|
|
100 |
‘98 |
|
|
75 |
‘99 |
|
|
100 |
‘98 |
|
Housing
Authority of the City of |
50 |
‘98 |
|
Housing
Authority of the City of |
300 |
‘98,’01 |
|
|
49 |
‘97 |
|
Kern
|
225 |
‘98 |
|
|
85 |
‘01 |
|
San
Diego Housing Commission |
200 |
‘00 |
|
San
Francisco Housing Authority |
75 |
‘99 |
|
|
|
|
|
Aurora
Housing Authority |
75 |
‘99 |
|
|
50 |
‘97 |
|
|
35 |
‘98 |
|
CO
Department of Human Services |
960 |
‘98,’00,’01,’02 |
|
CO
Division of Housing |
350 |
‘98,’02 |
|
|
75 |
‘99 |
|
|
100 |
‘98 |
|
|
150 |
‘98,’01 |
|
Jefferson
|
175 |
‘98,’99 |
|
|
75 |
‘01 |
|
|
|
|
|
CT
Department of Social Services |
300 |
‘98,’01 |
|
|
202 |
‘99 |
|
|
78 |
‘00 |
|
|
36 |
‘00 |
|
|
50 |
‘99 |
|
|
20 |
‘00 |
|
|
75 |
‘99 |
|
|
50 |
‘98 |
|
|
76 |
‘02 |
|
|
100 |
‘98 |
|
|
20 |
‘01 |
|
|
30 |
‘98,’99 |
|
|
32 |
‘00 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
50 |
‘97 |
|
District of Colubmia |
|
|
|
DC
Housing Authority |
347 |
‘98,’99,’01 |
|
|
|
|
|
Broward
|
75 |
‘01 |
|
City
of |
50 |
‘98 |
|
|
298 |
‘99,’00,’01 |
|
Hillsborough
County-BOCC |
100 |
‘98 |
|
Housing
Authority of |
75 |
‘00 |