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HUD Housing Programs: Tenants’ Rights (The Green Book): 1.4.1.8 Additional Assistance for the Disposition of HUD-Owned Projects

Through the Property Disposition program, HUD provided Project-Based Section 8 subsidies for projects it acquired after foreclosure and sold to private landlords. Most of the subsidized projects are former Section 236, Section 221(d)(3) or Rent Supplement projects, although the Section 8 subsidies could have been made available for any projects that HUD re-sold after acquisition.

HUD Housing Programs: Tenants’ Rights (The Green Book): 1.4.2 Section 8 Moderate Rehabilitation

The Section 8 Moderate Rehabilitation program, generally authorized for new units between 1978 and 1990, combined aspects of the Substantial Rehabilitation program and the Tenant-Based Section 8 (then Certificate) program.229 Although the Moderate Rehabilitation program is project-based, it was originally enacted and funded within the tenant-based provisions of the Section 8 statute and HUD appropriations.

HUD Housing Programs: Tenants’ Rights (The Green Book): 1.4.4 Rent Supplement Program

The Rent Supplement program was the first rental assistance program for privately owned properties,279 enacted in 1965 and active for new commitments until 1973. At its peak, this program assisted 179,908 units.280 Most Rent Supplement contracts have been converted to the Project-Based Section 8 Loan Management Set-Aside program, although, as of July 2018, HUD was reporting 3,983 units receiving Rent Supplement assistance.281

HUD Housing Programs: Tenants’ Rights (The Green Book): 1.5.1 Housing Choice Voucher Program (Section 8 Vouchers)

The Section 8 Voucher Program is the largest HUD housing program serving low-income families. Housing Choice Vouchers (HCV) are tenant-based vouchers through which HUD provides rental subsidies for standard-quality units that are chosen by the tenant in the private market. In 1981 HUD began pushing Vouchers as the primary federal mechanism for subsidizing low-income families as part of its policy of emphasizing use of the private market and its opposition to project-based subsidies.

HUD Housing Programs: Tenants’ Rights (The Green Book): 1.5.2.4 Family Unification Program

The Family Unification Program (FUP) is a program under which housing Vouchers are provided to families for whom the lack of adequate housing is a primary factor in the separation, or the threat of imminent separation, of children from their families, and to provide Vouchers to youths from ages 18 to 21 who exit foster care and lack adequate housing. FUP was created in the Cranston-Gonzalez Affordable Housing Act of 1990 as part of the Tenant Protection Fund.359

HUD Housing Programs: Tenants’ Rights (The Green Book): 1.5.2.5 Welfare-to-Work Voucher Demonstration

The Section 8 Welfare-to-Work (WtW) Rental Voucher program helps eligible families make the transition from welfare to work by providing them with tenant-based rental assistance. The program was created in 1999,363 although no appropriations for new Vouchers have been made since that time. Phase-out of the WtW Voucher Program demonstration began on March 11, 2004, but PHAs can use the Vouchers for the same purpose upon turnover.364

HUD Housing Programs: Tenants’ Rights (The Green Book): 1.5.3 Vouchers for Homeownership

In the 1990s, Congress authorized homeownership Vouchers to promote homeownership among low-income people.380 Homeownership Voucher Assistance provides monthly housing payment assistance to families that have been admitted to the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher program, meet certain criteria and are purchasing eligible homes in an amount that would otherwise have been provided to that family as Tenant-Based Voucher assistance.

HUD Housing Programs: Tenants’ Rights (The Green Book): 1.6.1 Federal Housing Policies and Programs for Native Americans

Background. In 2018, there were 567 federally recognized Indian Tribes.422 About 5.2 million U.S. residents report they are American Indians and Alaska Natives.423 Tribes are unique in that they are sovereign governments with governmental immunity under the Constitution, treaties, and other federal enactments. However, the federal government has various financial obligations to Tribes under treaties and its overall trust responsibility.

HUD Housing Programs: Tenants’ Rights (The Green Book): 1.7.1 Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program

Since 1974, the federal government has provided formula grants through the Community Development Block Grant program (CDBG) to states and local governments to develop viable urban communities by providing decent housing and a suitable living environment and expanding economic opportunities, primarily for the benefit of low- and moderate-income people.498 The regulations derive the definition of low- and moderate-income from the Section 8 low-income limit established by HUD (80 percent of AMI).499

HUD Housing Programs: Tenants’ Rights (The Green Book): 1.7.2 Choice Neighborhoods

In FY 2010 HUD created the Choice Neighborhoods Initiative (CNI), as a successor to the HOPE VI program, to upgrade a broad range of infrastructure components, including transportation, schools, jobs and economic activity, in neighborhoods that contain public and assisted housing, so that the neighborhoods will be ones in which people will choose to live.

HUD Housing Programs: Tenants’ Rights (The Green Book): 1.7.3 The HOME Investment Partnerships Program (HOME)

In 1990, Congress created the HOME Investment Partnerships program.551 Under this program, HUD allocates funds, primarily in accordance with a formula,552 to state and local governments that choose to participate.553 These funds must generally be matched by non-federal sources.554 The state and local governments, in turn, contract with developers to help supply housing for low- and very low-income peo

HUD Housing Programs: Tenants’ Rights (The Green Book): 1.7.4 National Housing Trust Fund

The National Housing Trust Fund (HTF) was created by the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 for the primary purpose of increasing and preserving the supply of rental housing for extremely low- and very low-income families, including homeless families, as well as to increase homeownership for extremely low- and very low-income families.577 This fund was established as a permanent program with a dedicated source of funding from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, 4.2 basis points per dollar of unpaid principal balance of total new business purch

HUD Housing Programs: Tenants’ Rights (The Green Book): 1.8.2 Section 3

The purpose of Section 3 is to provide “to the greatest extent feasible” economic and employment opportunities to low-income individuals.631 Specifically, Section 3 requires recipients of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) housing and community development funding to provide job training, employment, and contracting opportunities to low- and very low-income residents and eligible businesses.632 There is little information available nationally to determine if public housing age

HUD Housing Programs: Tenants’ Rights (The Green Book): 1.9.1 Emergency Solutions Grant

The Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG) program (formerly the Emergency Shelter Grants program) assists individuals and families to quickly regain stability in permanent housing after experiencing a housing crisis or homelessness.642 The ESG program expanded the Emergency Shelter Grants program to include homelessness prevention and rapid re-housing components as eligible grant activities.

HUD Housing Programs: Tenants’ Rights (The Green Book): 1.9.2.1 Overview

The Homeless Emergency Assistance and Rapid Transition to Housing (HEARTH) Act of 2009 amended the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act and consolidated three homelessness assistance programs—Supportive Housing, Shelter Plus Care and Section 8 Moderate Rehabilitation SRO—into a single program called the Continuum of Care Program.680 This is not to be confused with the current “Continuum of Care” process by which local government agencies, community-based organizations, service providers, and advocates assess the needs of homeless i

HUD Housing Programs: Tenants’ Rights (The Green Book): 1.9.2.2 Shelter Plus Care Program

Shelter Plus Care (S+C) Program is a homeless program that provides rental housing assistance program for “homeless persons with disabilities and the families of such persons.”716 S+C participants primarily are person who have a serious mental illness, have chronic problems with alcohol and/or drugs, or have acquired immunodeficiency syndrome and related diseases. The program links rental assistance to supportive services.