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Health and Human Services Agency (HHSA) recommending the Board, acting as the Board of Commissioners of the El Dorado County Public Housing Authority (PHA), to authorize the Chair and the HHSA Director to sign the accompanying PHA Civil Rights Certification, as required by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development.
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DISCUSSION / BACKGROUND:
The EDC PHA operates under federal guidelines from HUD to provide a rental subsidy assistance program called the Housing Choice Vouchers (HCV) Program. The HCV Program is the federal government’s major program for assisting very low-income families, the elderly, and those with disabilities to afford decent, safe, and accessible housing in the private market. The HCV Program allows EDC PHA to provide eligible participants with rental assistance through the administration of HUD allocated housing vouchers.
On April 9, 2024, the Board adopted Resolution 051-2024, approving EDC PHA’s current 2024 Administrative Plan, which establishes policies for local operation of the HCV Program (Legistar file 24-0323). Title VII of the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 established certain exemptions to the annual Administrative PHA Plan submittal to HUD. Under this statute, a qualified PHA is exempt from submitting an updated Administrative Plan to HUD when the PHA has fewer than 550 housing vouchers or units allocated, is not designated in a HUD audit as a troubled PHA and does not have a failing score under the Section 8 Management Assessment Program (SEMAP). The HUD SEMAP scoring ranges and designation categories are as follows:
- 90-100 equates to a High Performer designation;
- 60-89 equates to a Standard Performer designation; and
- A score less than 60 is considered a Troubled Housing Authority designation.
EDC PHA is considered a qualified, High Performing PHA, therefore, is exempt from submission of a PHA Annual Plan, however, is still required to submit HUD’s Civil Rights Cert...
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