Pt 22008 Housing Assistance Case Study

The Lack of Affordable Housing in California Lowers the Quality of Life for its Residents

An extensive description of these programs includes HUD that deals with the development of affordable housing in urban area for low-income individuals. Lack of housing options have driven fissure in education, health and economic opportunities, in fact, the Mississippi Delta has the state’s average home value standing at 50 percent lower than the national average, making the state the second lowest in the country. The goal of the Department of Housing and Urban Development was to focus on insuring mortgages for single-family and multifamily dwellings and extending loans for home improvements and for the purchase of mobile homes; channeling funds from investors into the mortgage industry through the Government National Mortgage Association; and making loans for the construction or rehabilitation of housing projects for older and handicapped persons.

Housing identification; focus of this service is to provide help with finding housing and troubleshoot barriers that prevent access to housing like John’s PTSD.

One way D.C. can enhance the performance of Rapid Re-Housing programs and lower the rate of individuals/families returning back to homelessness is to emulate the model that NYC has been following for the past few years. A few years ago NYC launched the Home to Stay program (Bornstein, 2014). Home to Stay is a partnership between New York’s Department of Homeless Services and four other organizations committed to fighting homelessness (Bornstein, 2014). Home to Stay uses an evidence-based protocol known as Family Critical Time Intervention which is intended to motivate individuals and heads of families over nine months to take an advantage of support services, such as addiction and mental health counseling, conflict mediation, and improvement of job prospects (Bornstein, 2014). The program follows an extensive and rigorous screening procedure in order identify and select the most vulnerable and needy homeless individuals and families who must have access to the supportive services the program provides (Bornstein, 2014). Though Home to Stay does not target the homelessness population as a whole, program expansion is a future possibility. While there is no concrete data that measures the performance of Home to Stay, testimonies from individuals and families that participated in the program indicate that there is a promising future (Bornstein, 2014). Individuals and families that were previously homeless believe that Home to Stay is a

for families who need assistance in entrenched support services and housing access. Why exactly would one want to invest government regulated taxes on one of these programs? Poverty rates in Adams County, Pennsylvania continually inflate since the 2009 "Point in Time" study. In 2014, surveys found that the poverty rate, when counting female head of households, rose up to 28.4%; comparable to the state wide’s poverty rate of 11.4%. (ACCESS Housing, 2016). Due to legal actions, the Department of Veterans Affairs has finally begun steadfast actions to build 1,200 supportive housing units. To sustain the transitional housing program, or even launch a program, a substantial amount of funding needs maintaining for bed and program support provisions. Due to the inflation of the homeless in the Adams County region, a transitional housing program needs regulating to aid those who necessitate a home, are trying to hold on to their home, or are in dire need of assistance with housing payments.

The first step we need to take is to establish a NFP entity with the primary mission of providing stable housing for up to 24 months to military veterans. The ability to provide this type of housing for veterans via a NFP entity will enable the organization to be eligible for a number of government funded grants such as the Veteran Administration’s Homeless Providers Grant and Per Diem Program and the Illinois Energy Grant. (2)

Affordable housing has become the paramount issue of cities and dense urban areas. San Francisco is the posterchild of an unaffordable city that regardless of immense investment from blue chip firms like Google, Facebook, and their ilk of startups evaluated at $1 billion or more, policymakers and elected officials must wrestle with the housing affordability crisis that is considered endogenous to swaths of homelessness and record statistics on crime. In New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio has made affordable housing the centerpiece of his legislation and championed the cause as a social justice issue—neighborhoods must remain affordable to maintain diversity for all races, ethnicities, and low-income families. A small sample of 827 New Yorkers by the NY1-Baruch College City Poll found the main concern of respondents was affordable housing while crime, jobs, and homelessness were peripheral problems (Cuza, 2016). The public discourse on how to address housing across the United States has pointed to negative externalities that surround rent-regulation and homeownership. Conversely, for this essay I will present various cases in order to illustrate the housing crunch is influenced less by housing and land regulations, or antagonistic homeowners but is induced by global market forces.

The Public Policy Institute states that Section 8 project-based rental assistance contracts involving HUD and for-profit owners contracting private multifamily housing, which is made available by HUD to low-income households who qualify for housing assistance. The subsidy is such that pays the difference "between 30 percent of the household's income and the contract rent; the subsidy is paid by HUD to the landlord." (AARP Public Policy Institute, 2002) In addition, HUD has Dispersal programs for renters of Section 8 housing due to the desire of the public to avoid to concentration of poverty-level residents in urban areas. This is because there is a general consensus that Section 8 subsidized housing tends to drive down the market prices of property in the same area. There are various challenges that are faced by the Section 8 subsidized housing program as it assists low-income households obtain appropriate housing through the provision of rental assistance.

In 2011 there was an average of about 13,000 homeless people in Ohio and the number has continued to rise since then. Nearly 300 people are homeless in Licking County during any given night.(LCC Housing, 2011) The most outstanding statistic from the Licking County Coalition for Housing in 2011 was that the average age of a homeless person is the age of only nine years old. That means, for every homeless man or women that is seen on the streets, there is two to three children who are also homeless.

In the first step of establishing a plan for impoverished children residing in section 8 communities housing would be to identify the problem. In order to understand a plan that needs to be made for the human rights and social and economic justice for these individuals, there must be an understanding of what aspect of their rights and justice is not already being met by society. After establishing what is the problem, having an understanding of why it’s a problem helps better set up the next step of collecting information on that issue and coming to a conclusion of how it happened to gain a better angle of how to solve it. In order to have an effective advocacy plan, we need to do research on finding out what is not being offered to them that is being offered to other children that are not residing in impoverished section 8 housing. If better and

The McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (McKinney-Vento) covers many aspects of homelessness. The original Act contained 15 different programs for people who were homeless (United States Department of Housing and Urban Development [HUD], 2007). I will be focusing on Title VII-B of this act. This section of McKinney-Vento speaks to homeless children and their right to equal access to an appropriate public school education. This Act has been in existence since 1987. Due to school performance standards put in place by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, this specific section of the McKinney-Vento Act has been reauthorized to include new mandates (United States Department of Education [DE], 2004).

Complainant, who has a Housing Choice Voucher administered by the Chicago Housing Authority (CHA), alleges that Respondent denied her the opportunity to rent an available unit based on her race and source of income. Complainant also alleges that she was subjected to disparate treatment by Martinez’s behavior (shaking his finger and interrupting her) and he would not process her application. Complainant further alleges that Respondents’ minimum income requirement had a disparate impact on Housing Choice Voucher holders. Respondents deny the allegations and assert that Complainant did not complete the application process with Terrazio Apartments.

New Hope Housing likely had strengths related to their employee development program, their effectiveness in housing people in need, and their niche for ensuring individuals who would typically be rejected housing. Some of their weaknesses likely related to their secured funding and current dependence on government funding. Some of their opportunities relate to finding solutions for permanent housing, as this is currently a struggle for the people they serve. Lastly, their threats likely also have to do with their government funding. As budgets change, money is moved around and can impact this organization for the better or for the worse.

The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program (TANF) and employment goes hand in hand when dealing with low-income families. When Congress introduced the block grant in the late nineties to fund the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program, it was designed to help low income families. Statistics shows that the number of low income families has been on the rise for a while. Even with the program’s increase of cash benefits, families are struggling to make ends meet. This program has taken some major hits from the state and federal government, human service professionals and its participants. Is the TANF program right for low income families? Does the program need to be revamped? This paper provides the answer to both questions along with history information, purpose of programs, eligibility qualifications, federal guidelines and literature reviews.

Ms. Rose Pagan is in rent arrears for $ 13,635.00 through September 2017. Ms. Pagan has been living in the unit on and off for 5 years. Ms. Pagan is having a difficult time with the rent for her total household income is below 200% Federal Poverty Level for a family of 5. If Ms. Pagan is not granted a CityFEPS voucher, the family is most likely to be evicted.