Announcement of Tenant Protection Voucher Funding Awards for Fiscal Year 2018 for the Housing Choice Voucher Program

AGENCY:

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

ACTION:

Announcement of Fiscal Year 2018 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 Tenant Protection Voucher (TPV) funding awards for Fiscal Year (FY) 2018 to public housing agencies (PHAs) under the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program (HCVP). The purpose of this notice is to publish the names and addresses of awardees, and the amount of their non-competitive funding awards for assisting households affected by housing conversion actions, public housing relocations and replacements, moderate rehabilitation replacements, and HOPE VI demolitions.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Danielle L. Bastarache, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Office of Public Housing and Voucher Programs, Office of Public and Indian Housing, Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 Seventh Street SW, Room 4204, Washington, DC 20410-5000, telephone (202) 402-5264. Hearing- or speech-impaired individuals may call HUD's TTY number at (800) 927-7589. (Only the “800” telephone number is toll-free.)

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

The regulations governing the HCVP are published at 24 CFR 982. The purpose of the rental assistance program is to assist eligible families to pay their rent for decent, safe, and sanitary housing in the private rental market. 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 FY 2018 awardees announced in this notice were provided HCVP tenant protection vouchers (TPVs) funds on an as-needed, non-competitive basis, i.e., not consistent with the provisions of a Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA). TPV awards made to PHAs for program actions that displace families living in public housing were made on a first-come, first-served basis in accordance with PIH Notice 2018-04, “Voucher Funding in Connection with the Demolition or Disposition of Occupied Public Housing Units,” and PIH Notice 2018-09, “Implementation of the Federal Fiscal Year (FFY) 2018 Funding Provision for the Housing Choice Voucher Program.” Awards for the Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD) were provided for Rental Supplement and Rental Assistance Payment Projects (RAD Second Component) consistent with PIH Notice 2012-32 (HA), REV-3, “Rental Assistance Demonstration-Final Implementation, Revision 3.” Announcements of awards provided under the NOFA process for Mainstream, Designated Housing, Family Unification (FUP), and Veterans Assistance Supportive Housing (VASH) programs will be published in a separate Federal Register notice.

Awards published under this notice were provided to: (1) Assist families living in HUD-owned properties that are being sold; (2) assist families affected by the expiration or termination of their Project-based Section 8 and Moderate Rehabilitation contracts; (3) assist families in properties where the owner has prepaid the HUD mortgage; (4) assist families in projects where the Rental Supplement and Rental Assistance Payments contracts are expiring (RAD—Second Component); (5) provide relocation housing assistance in connection with the demolition of public housing; (6) provide replacement housing assistance for single room occupancy (SRO) units that fail housing quality standards (HQS); (7) assist families in public housing developments that are scheduled for demolition in connection with a HUD-approved HOPE VI revitalization or demolition grant, and (8) assist families consistent with PIH Notice 2018-02, “Funding Availability for Tenant Protection Voucher for Certain At-Risk Households in Low Vacancy Areas-Fiscal Year 2018.”

A special administrative fee of $200 per occupied unit was provided to PHAs to compensate for any extraordinary HCVP administrative costs associated with the Multifamily Housing conversion actions.

The Department awarded total new budget authority of $79,434,039 to recipients under all the above-mentioned categories for 7,810 housing choice vouchers. This budget authority includes $1,097,364 of unobligated commitments made in FY 2017. These funds were reserved by September 30, 2017, but not contracted until FY 2018, and thus have been included with obligated commitments for FY 2018.

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 and addresses of awardees, and their award amounts in Appendix A. The awardees are listed alphabetically by state for each type of TPV award.