HUD Housing Vouchers for People with Disabilities

New HUD Housing Vouchers for People with Disabilities

Over 78,000 new Section 8 Fair Share Vouchers were awarded last month, and approximately 12,600 of the vouchers have been set-aside specifically for people with disabilities.

TAC received information from HUD last week on which Public Housing Authorities (PHAs) set-aside a percentage of their Fair Share vouchers for people with disabilities and people with Medicaid Home and Community Based Waivers and has posted this information on the "Fair Share" page of our website. Go to the Housing page of our website.

475 PHAs received Fair Share vouchers this year. Of those, 422 set aside vouchers for people with disabilities. Fair Share Vouchers are conventional Section 8 vouchers (i.e., not targeted to any particular group) and are awarded by HUD to PHAs that apply through a competition. As part of the competition, for the past two years, PHA applications received more points from HUD if they agreed to use a minimum of 15% of their Fair Share vouchers for households with disabilities and additional points if they agreed to use at least 3% of the vouchers for people with disabilities with Medicaid Home and Community Based Waivers.

TAC has tracked the Fair Share Voucher award winners, including the PHAs that opted to set aside vouchers for people with disabilities; and how many vouchers the PHA must minimally set-aside for people with disabilities.

Source: Technical Assistance Collaborative (www.tacinc.org)

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