Announcement of Funding Awards; Office of Public and Indian Housing FY 1999 Awards for the Housing Choice Voucher Programs

AGENCY:

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

ACTION:

Announcement of funding awards.

SUMMARY:

In accordance with section 102(a)(4)(c) of the Department of Housing and Urban Development Reform Act of 1989, this announcement notifies the public of funding awards for Fiscal Year (FY) 1999 to housing agencies and non-profit agencies under the housing choice voucher programs. The purpose of this Notice is to publish the names and addresses of the award winners and the amount of the awards made available by HUD to provide rental assistance to very low income families.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Michael Diggs, Director, Grants Management Center, Office of Public and Indian Housing, Department of Housing and Urban Development, 501 Schools Street, SW., Suite 800, Washington, DC 20024, telephone 202/358-0273. For the hearing or speech impaired, these numbers may be accessed via TTY (text telephone) by calling the Federal Information Relay Service at 1-800-877-8339. (Other than the “800” TTY number, these telephone numbers are not toll-free).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

The regulations governing the housing choice voucher programs are published at 24 CFR part 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 the housing choice voucher programs is to assist eligible families to pay the rent for decent, safe, and sanitary housing, or to purchase a modest home. The FY 1999 awards announced in this notice were selected for funding consistent with the provisions in the Notices of Funding Availability (NOFAs) published in the Federal Register on March 5, 1999 (64 FR 10904), March 8, 1999 (64 FR 11278; 11294; 11302; 11310), and July 27, 1999 (64 FR 40686).

The March 5, 1999 (64 FR 10904) NOFA made available housing choice vouchers from the Family Unification Program to assist families for who the lack of adequate housing is a primary factor in the separation, or imminent separation of children from their families. The March 8, 1999 NOFAs made available housing choice vouchers for: (a) Persons with disabilities in support of designated housing allocation plans (64 FR 11294); (b) non-elderly disabled families in connection with certain Section 8 project based developments where the owner has established a preference for admission of elderly households (64 FR 11310); and (c) persons with disabilities under the Mainstream housing Program (64 FR 11302).

The March 8, 1999 (64 FR 11278) and July 27, 1999 (64 FR 40686) NOFA's made available Family Self-Sufficiency (FSS) Coordinator funds to hire FSS program coordinators.

A total of $151,644,990 in budget authority for 17,960 housing choice vouchers was awarded to recipients. A total of $28,499,099 in budget was awarded to hire FSS program coordinators, $75,318 was used to fund FY 1998 eligible recipients that were not funded.

The Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance numbers for this program are 14.855 and 14.857.

In accordance with section 102(a)(4)(c) of the Department of Housing and Urban Development Reform Act of 1989 (103 Stat. 11987, 42 U.S.C. 3545), the Department is publishing the names, addresses, and amounts of those awards as show in Appendix A.