Known the crucial need for reasonable rental housing in many communities, Low Income Public Housing is provided, in part, for transitional housing due to income and circumstances. Recently, HUD OIG report noted that more than 25,226 families whose income exceeded HUD’s 2014 eligibility income limits. 17, 000 households exceeded income limits for more than 1 year. (2015-PH-0002). Based on HUD guideline those families met the income eligibility upon their admission into the program.
II. Introduction and the over income families in Low income public housing problem
The Housing Act of 1937 (Wagner-Steagall Act) established the United States Housing Administration responsible for building publicly subsidized housing. The guideline of eligibility is set very low maximum income requirements for public housing residents. This policy was intended to ease fears that public housing would compete with the private market, but it eventually led to high concentrations of poverty within public housing projects. The issue is that there is an article in the guidelines on (§ 960.503 Occupancy by over-income families.) Explain that over income households can reside in low public housing if there is no low income families on the waiting list. The matter of fact there a lot of low income families on the waiting for more than five years to get affordable housing. While the high-income households are taking a public benefit from families who truly need the housing. HUD need to consider finding a ways to possibly limit public housing residency to those families that really need housing assistance. However, the recent finding by OIG it concludes that there high number of households with really high income residing in the low income public housing. This clearly showing that the policy of income eligibly it has been violated by the Housing Authorities. Some of Housing Authorities executives’ directors argued that it is good for the households that exceed income limit to reside in public housing to make public housing projects as mix finance demography. III. Recommendations A. Establish new polices continuing occupancy. Recommendation is that HUD direct housing authorities to amend flat rent and ceiling policies to evict any with high income households and give them a grace period or giving ninety days’ notice for them to look for another unit for rent. And establish new of continuing occupancy policies to reduce the number of over income families in public housing, thus those in shelters and waiting lists as much as an projected over one million dollars to better use by providing those funds to eligible low-income families in need of housing assistance. …show more content…
(HCV guide book – 15-3). This policy will housing authority right to terminate the high income family from the program without jeopardize any legal issue upon the termination of the household.
D. An income cap for participants
Housing authority need establish policy of income cap for continuing occupancy, however, there a policy in place that allow housing participants to over income by 140% of anticipated annual for the household, yet those participants making over hundreds thousands a year will still be over 140% mark. If income cap is added into their policy, then the participants who exceed income limit will voluntarily leave the program.
IV.
II. Introduction and the over income families in Low income public housing problem
The Housing Act of 1937 (Wagner-Steagall Act) established the United States Housing Administration responsible for building publicly subsidized housing. The guideline of eligibility is set very low maximum income requirements for public housing residents. This policy was intended to ease fears that public housing would compete with the private market, but it eventually led to high concentrations of poverty within public housing projects. The issue is that there is an article in the guidelines on (§ 960.503 Occupancy by over-income families.) Explain that over income households can reside in low public housing if there is no low income families on the waiting list. The matter of fact there a lot of low income families on the waiting for more than five years to get affordable housing. While the high-income households are taking a public benefit from families who truly need the housing. HUD need to consider finding a ways to possibly limit public housing residency to those families that really need housing assistance. However, the recent finding by OIG it concludes that there high number of households with really high income residing in the low income public housing. This clearly showing that the policy of income eligibly it has been violated by the Housing Authorities. Some of Housing Authorities executives’ directors argued that it is good for the households that exceed income limit to reside in public housing to make public housing projects as mix finance demography. III. Recommendations A. Establish new polices continuing occupancy. Recommendation is that HUD direct housing authorities to amend flat rent and ceiling policies to evict any with high income households and give them a grace period or giving ninety days’ notice for them to look for another unit for rent. And establish new of continuing occupancy policies to reduce the number of over income families in public housing, thus those in shelters and waiting lists as much as an projected over one million dollars to better use by providing those funds to eligible low-income families in need of housing assistance. …show more content…
(HCV guide book – 15-3). This policy will housing authority right to terminate the high income family from the program without jeopardize any legal issue upon the termination of the household.
D. An income cap for participants
Housing authority need establish policy of income cap for continuing occupancy, however, there a policy in place that allow housing participants to over income by 140% of anticipated annual for the household, yet those participants making over hundreds thousands a year will still be over 140% mark. If income cap is added into their policy, then the participants who exceed income limit will voluntarily leave the program.
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