Announcement of Funding Awards for Fiscal Year 2003 for the Housing Choice Voucher Program

AGENCY:

Office of the Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing, HUD.

ACTION:

Announcement of Fiscal Year 2003 awards.

SUMMARY:

In accordance with section 102(a)(4)(C) of the Department of Housing and Urban Development Reform Act of 1989, this document notifies the public of funding awards for Fiscal Year (FY) 2003 to housing agencies (HAs) under the section 8 housing choice voucher program. The purpose of this notice is to publish the names, addresses, and the amount of the awards to housing agencies for non-competitive funding awards such as, housing conversion actions, special housing conversion fees, public housing relocations and replacements, section 8 counseling, and FY 2003 administrative fees for housing conversion actions.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Deborah Hernandez, Director, Office of Housing Voucher Programs, Office of Public and Indian Housing, Room 4232, Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 Seventh Street, SW., Washington, DC 20410-5000, telephone (202) 708-2934. Hearing- or speech-impaired individuals may call HUD's TTY number at 1(800) 927-7589. (Only the “800” telephone number is toll-free.)

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

The regulations governing the housing choice voucher program are published at 24 CFR 982. The regulations for allocating housing assistance budget authority under Section 213(d) of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 are published at 24 CFR part 791, subpart D.

The purpose of this rental assistance program is to assist eligible families to pay the rent for decent, safe, and sanitary housing. The FY 2003 awardees announced in this notice were provided section 8 funds on an as-needed, non-competitive basis, i.e., not consistent with the provisions of a Notice of Funding Availability (NOFAs). Announcements of awards provided consistent with NOFAs for family unification, mainstream housing, designated housing programs, and family self-sufficiency coordinators will be published in a separate Federal Register notice.

Awards published under this notice were provided (1) to assist families living in HUD-owned properties that are being sold; (2) to assist families affected by the expiration or termination of assistance; (3) to assist families in properties where the owner has prepaid the HUD mortgage; (4) to provide special housing fees to compensate housing agencies for any extraordinary section 8 administrative costs associated with the previous three categories; (5) to provide relocation and replacement housing in connection with the demolition of public housing; (6) to assist families affected by the prepayment of a rent supplement contract; (7) to provide counseling and assistance to families so that they may move to areas that have low racial and ethnic concentrations; and (8) for FY 2003 PHA administrative fees for the administration of housing choice vouchers awarded under this notice.

A total of $183,855,849 in budget authority for rental vouchers (26,787 units) was awarded to recipients under all of the above-mentioned categories.

In accordance with section 102(a)(4)(C) of the Department of Housing and Urban Development Reform Act of 1989 (103 Stat. 1987, 42 U.S.C. 3545), the Department is publishing the names, addresses, and amounts of those awards as shown in appendix A.