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<br />Orange County Affordable Housing <br />Advisory Board (AHAB) <br />Meeting Agenda <br />November 14, 2022, 6:00 PM <br />Chamber for a Greater Chapel Hill <br />Louise Beck room <br />04 S Estes Dr, Chapel Hill, NC 27514 <br />to avoid charity model/hierarchy between service providers and clients. Trying to move into a social <br />justice focused lens (we’re all people, we all have needs). People are experts on what they need; let’s <br />not prescribe when we don’t know. <br />We work a lot with LLs/property managers to de-stigmatize things like vouchers. Also want to know <br />what concerns the landlord has. Used to take months to get a unit inspected to become HCV landlord. <br />Now we do it within the week. <br />SOHRAD is about 2 years old. Works exclusively with folks unsheltered. Numbers have gone up A LOT in <br />the last couple years. They weren’t people who weren’t here but are now noticed/a part of our <br />database/systems. Rachel Waltz W will be presenting in December or Jan. <br /> <br />Housing Choice Voucher (Section 8) <br />Offers LONGTERM rental subsidy in any market rate unit in community. Lots of leeway in how the <br />program is run. Blake Rosser and Corey Root are going through the whole HCV manual to remove all <br />offensive/problematic language. Coming up with admin plan that is trauma-informed. <br />• Holly brings up the long waitlist. HCV has strict guidelines. We don’t take applications from <br />anyone who is unsheltered. 679 vouchers, 577 currently leased up. Issued 126 new vouchers <br />since Oct 2021. <br />To get HCV, you have to be referred by service provider. If they have high service needs, they need to <br />have case management. We were below 500 vouchers in 2018-2020. It’s the highest now it has ever <br />been. HUD is giving us more vouchers because we’re using all of our funding. Lease-up times are very <br />significant issue. It’s taking about 3 months for HCV holders to find homes. We have financial incentives <br />for LLs to allow HCV. $1,000 for the lease; $500 for every other new lease. <br />• Paul brings up voucher for elderly, low income folks (section 202?). Corey has never heard of <br />that; we’ll look it up <br /> <br />Community Stability <br />Libbie is manager. 3 sections: <br />• Housing Helpline <br />o One-stop shop. We’ve helped 17k households, 50k calls, 33k emails, 792 walk-ins (up <br />through November 13). HH is at SHSC Tuesdays and Thursdays. <br />• Emergency Housing Assistance. In 2019 Emmala brought together folks from the towns with <br />goal of creating streamlined access point (HH). Programs used to do dif things, have dif eligibility <br />requirements. Good thing, bc demand went through the roof in 2020. We’ve given out $12mil in <br />assistance.