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Adopt a resolution to allow the Solano County Housing Authority to submit a Letter of Interest Package to participate in the first cohort of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD) Move-to-Work (MTW) demonstration expansion
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DEPARTMENTAL RECOMMENDATION:
The Department of Resource Management recommends that the Solano County Housing Authority (SCHA) adopt a resolution to allow the SCHA to submit a Letter of Interest Package to participate in the first cohort of the Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD) Move-to-Work (MTW) demonstration expansion.
SUMMARY/DISCUSSION:
The HUD Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) Program provides rent subsidies on behalf of very low-income Solano County households (annual income below $42,850 for a household of four) so they can live in decent, safe and affordable housing. The SCHA voucher program is administered by the Vacaville Housing Authority by contract with Solano County. The SCHA program contributes an annual investment of approximately $2,050,000 into the local economy through rental subsidies on behalf of approximately 290 households.
In 1996 HUD established the MTW Demonstration Program. MTW allows public housing authorities (PHAs) to design and test innovative, locally designed housing and self-sufficiency strategies for low-income families. The MTW program permits PHAs to use federal housing assistance and administrative dollars received more flexibly by allowing certain exemptions from existing HCV program rules, as approved by HUD. The MTW Statute provides statutory and regulatory flexibility to participating PHAs under three statutory objectives. Those three statutory objectives are to:
? reduce cost and achieve greater cost effectiveness in federal expenditures;
? give incentives to families with children where the head of household is working; is seeking work; or is ...
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