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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: March 27, 2007 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. ~'' <br />SUBJECT: Annual Public Housing Agency (PHA) Plan -Section 8 Housing Program <br />DEPARTMENT: Housing/Comm. Development PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) Yes <br />ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Status Report Tara L. Fikes, 245-2490 <br />Annual PHA Plan <br />Certifications of Compliance/Board <br />Resolution . <br />PURPOSE: To conduct a public hearing and approve submission of the Annual Public Housing <br />Agency Plan for the Orange County Housing Authority. <br />BACKGROUND: The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Department (HUD) <br />requires all agencies operating the Section 8 Existing. Housing Assistance Program to prepare a <br />Five (5) Year Public Housing Agency (PHA) Plan and an Annual Plan. The County's <br />Department of Housing and Community Development administers the Section 8 Program that <br />provides rent subsidies to low income families in the County. <br />The PHA Plan is a 5-year plan that describes the mission of the Agency and the Agency's long- <br />range goals and objectives for achieving its mission over the next five (5) years -Fiscal Years <br />2005-2010. The Board of County Commissioners approved the last Five (5) Year Plan on April <br />19, 2005. <br />Currently, the Section 8 Housing Program serves approximately 612 families throughout the <br />County including the Towns of Carrboro, Chapel Hill and Hillsborough. The program currently <br />has a waiting list of approximately 1,678 applicants. A complete status report for the program is <br />attached to this abstract. <br />HUD provides a template for the plan and the County's Annual Plan is provided with this <br />abstract. The plan will be made available for public comment for the period March 13, 2007 to <br />April 26, 2007 as advertised in the Chapel Hill Herald. All public comment received will be <br />incorporated into the PHA Plan. There are no substantive changes proposed in the Annual Plan <br />since the Five (5) Year Plan was approved last year. However, there are plans in the coming <br />year to amend the Administrative Plan to include the following: <br />1. A provision to allow group home residents to decline the offer of a Section 8 voucher a <br />pre-determined number of times without losing their waiting list position; and <br />2. Section 8 Homeownership Program Guidelines <br />