To: Contra Costa County Housing Authority Board of Commissioners
From: Joseph Villarreal, Executive Director
Report Title: REPORT ON THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT'S (HUD) PROPOSED RULE CHANGING TREATMENT OF MIXED-STATUS HOUSEHOLDS IN HUD'S SECTION 214 PROGRAMS
?Recommendation of the County Administrator ? Recommendation of Board Committee
RECOMMENDATIONS:
CONSIDER accepting a report on the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD) proposed rule changing treatment of mixed-status households in HUD's section 214 programs. The proposed rule change will impact approximately 29 families/118 people in the voucher program and 7 families/31 people in public housing.
BACKGROUND:
Federal housing programs include both direct assistance programs that provide low-cost apartments and rental vouchers to low-income families, administered through local public, quasi-public, and private intermediaries; as well as relatively flexible grants to state and local governments that can be used to serve homeless people, build affordable housing, provide assistance to first-time homebuyers, and promote community development. The federal government also makes tax credits available to states to distribute to developers of low-cost housing and provides mortgage insurance or guarantees to lenders that make certain types of mortgages to eligible homebuyers or developers of multifamily housing.
Most of these programs are administered at the federal level by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), although some are administered by other agencies, including the Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) Rural Housing Service (RHS), the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). In nearly all cases, the assistance the programs provide flows through other entities, including local, quasi-governmental Public Housing Agencies (PHAs); state or local governments; nonprofit or in some cases for-profit organizations; or, ...
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