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CITY OF SAN JOSE HOUSING AUTHORITY
RESOLUTION NO. ______________
A RESOLUTION OF THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
OF THE CITY OF SAN JOSE HOUSING AUTHORITY
AUTHORIZING : (A) THE CITY HOUSING AUTHORITY’S
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR TO SUBMIT A LETTER TO THE
SANTA CLARA COUNTY HOUSING AUTHORITY
(“SCCHA”) TO SUPPORT THE 2024 MOVING TO WORK
ANNUAL PLAN; AND (B) THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
OF THE SCCHA AND THE CHAIR OF THE SCCHA
BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS TO EXECUTE THE
DOCUMENTS REQUIRED IN CONNECTION WITH THE
2024 MOVING TO WORK PLAN (“MTW PLAN”)
SUBMITTAL IN THE NAME OF THE CITY HOUSING
AUTHORITY
WHEREAS, among other activities, Santa Clara County Housing Authority (“SCCHA”) administers and manages public housing and approximately 17,000 Housing Choice Vouchers (“Section 8”) on behalf of the U.S. Housing and Urban Development (“HUD”) to provide rental assistance programs for lower-income families, senior, and persons with disabilities for the SSCHA; and
WHEREAS, a 1996 assignment agreement between the City of San José Housing Authority (“City Housing Authority”) and SCCHA (“1996 Agreement”) the City Housing Authority transferred to the SCCHA the power to administer and manage the City Housing Authority’s Section 8 voucher and other HUD programs; and
WHEREAS, under the 1996 SCCHA administers and manages the public housing and rental voucher programs for the City Housing Authority; and
WHEREAS, sixty percent (60%) of the vouchers managed by SCCHA are allocated by HUD to SCCHA under its own name; forty percent (40%) of the vouchers managed by SCCHA are allocated by HUD to the City Housing Authority although approximately NVF:SSG:JGH
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74% of all housed vouchers rent a home or apartment located in the city of San José; and
WHEREAS, included in the 1996 Agreement between the City Housing Authority and the SCCHA is a requirement that the SCCHA consult with the City Housing Authority and obtain approval of any significant policy decisions regarding administration of the transferred City Housing Authority programs; and
WHEREAS, Moving to Work (“MTW”) was established by Congress in 1996, and is a federal demonstration program that links broad federal goals with locally-designed initiatives and encourages selected housing authorities to propose and, upon HUD approval, implement innovative changes to the way in which affordable housing programs are administered in order to meet at least one of the following three broad federal goals: (1) to decrease costs and increase cost effectiveness in housing program operations; (2) to promote participants’ economic self-sufficiency; and (3) to expand participants’ housing choices; and
WHEREAS, in 2008, SCCHA entered into an agreement with the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to become an MTW agency and to make the City Housing Authority an MTW agency, and which agreement expires in 2028; and
WHEREAS, the MTW Annual Plan is a major policy document which includes numerous policies and guidelines impacting the use, administration management, and oversight of the SCCHA and City Housing Authority rental voucher programs; and
WHEREAS, each year, the SCCHA releases an MTW Annual Plan describing new policies that may be implemented as part of its MTW Program, and once HUD approves the proposed policies, the SCCHA can implement those policies through programs that meet the housing needs of the local community; and
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WHEREAS, SCCHA is proposing the following new activities for this year’s MTW Annual Plan, Activity 2024-01: Digital Inclusion, Activity 2024-02: Supporting Homeownership Opportunities, Activity 2024-03: Rental Assistance for Student Parents Obtaining Post-Secondary Education, Activity 2024-04: Short-term Bridge Loan, Activity 2024-05: Streamline Offer of New Lease Process, Activity 2024-06: Increase Total Development Cost Cap, Activity 2024-07: Buena Mobile Home Park, Activity 2024-08:
Supplemental Rents, and re-proposing Activity 2022-03: Interim Housing; and
WHEREAS, the MTW Annual Plan must be submitted for consideration to the HUD by April 13, 2023 and this City Housing Authority approval will allow SCCHA officials to sign the MTW Annual Plan on behalf of the City Housing Authority and submit it in timely manner to HUD; and
WHEREAS, the City Housing Authority retains its Board of Commissioners and may implement other affordable housing programs not assigned to the SCCHA under the 1996 Agreement, and accordingly the City Housing Authority has its own Chair and an Executive Director separate from the SCCHA; and
WHEREAS, the 1996 Agreement does not designate the Chair of the SCCHA Board of Commissioners as the “Chair Board of Commissioners of the City Housing Authority” or confer on the Executive Director of the SCCHA the title of the “Executive Director of the City Housing Authority;” and
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Housing Authority and the Executive Director of SCCHA also may be executing documents under the title of the Executive Director of the City Housing Authority; and
WHEREAS, the Board of Commissioners of the City Housing Authority desires to authorize the: (a) City Housing Authority’s Executive Director to submit a letter to SCCHA to support the 2024 MTW Annual Plans and (b) the Executive Director of the SCCHA and the Chair of the SCCHA Board of Commissioners to execute the documents required in connection with the 2024 City Housing Authority MTW Annual Plan submittal in the name of the City Housing Authority, as set forth in the Memorandum from the Executive Director for the April 11, 2023 meeting.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF THE CITY OF SAN JOSE HOUSING AUTHORITY THAT:
(a) the City Housing Authority’s Executive Director is hereby authorized to submit a letter to the Santa Clara County Housing Authority (“SCCHA”) to support the 2024 Moving to Work (“MTW”) Annual Plan.
(b) the Executive Director of the SCCHA and the Chair of the SCCHA Board of Commissioners are hereby authorized to execute the documents required in connection with the 2024 MTW Annual Plan submittal in the name of the City Housing Authority.
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ADOPTED this _____ day of ___________, 2023, by the following vote:
AYES:
NOES:
ABSENT:
DISQUALIFIED:
MATT MAHAN
Chair, Board of Commissioners
ATTEST:
TONI J. TABER, CMC
Secretary, Housing Authority
of the City of San José