Louisville Housing Authority Minutes 2007 10 30 DRAFT

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there has been definition of the interventions, staff will invite an officer from Louisville to attend an LHA meeting to discuss. Public Housing Disposition- Staff notified the LHA board previously that BCHA submitted an application to dispose ofalI public housing (56 units) in June of2007. The plan submitted to HUD inc1 uded selling of single- family and duplex homes ( 14 units) and recapitalizing and rehabilitating aggregated units (42 units). Any proceeds from the disposition process are required to be used to acquire and/or develop more affordable housing. HUD had errors in original approval letter issued in August, so BCHA is still waiting for final approval from HUD with the corrected version. In meantime BCHA must use proceeds on acquisitions, so BCHA has begun looking at properties around the county to expand the affordable housing stock using the proceeds. BCHA has received approval for an additional 56 units of replacement vouchers. As BCHA receives more information on the disposition process and proceeds on the release of the Declarations of Trust and the recapitalization, staff will bring information to lhe board to consider a potential application of the Hillside property for the LHA. Hillside is the only LHA Public Housing site (13 units). A disposition of the Hillside property would likely involve a recapitalization and a potential for expanding the LHA housing stock. PHAS scores: Management score decreased by 2 points due to accessible unit at Hillside. To be above a high performer the score must be above 90. Score is for entire agency. Last year's score was 84. Property Manae:ement/Maintenance Report . Rent and Occupancy Update and Monthly Rental Vacancy Report Vacancies: Sunnyside - abandonment discovered early last week after 1 month, but Sally already has several applicants. Acme vacancy filled quickly. Hillside has 1 vacancy being filled 10-31-07. Regal Square vacancy has been filled with a person off the new waitlist that was just opened. Jay: Don't people need to give notice to current landlord, which could ta Frank: Maintenance procedure is the unit is in downtime for 5 days onc ed. Maintenance gets 15 calendar days to turn unit then PM gets 5 days to Sally: Evictions take much longer, possibly 2-3 weeks total. On the notice is posted. After 3 business days paperwork is turned into the t show for court date, then a tenant has 48 hours to vacate the S 2 weeks to remove items. -:79 voucher holders living in the City of Section 8: HCV . Monthly sta Currently Louisville Louisville. . Jay expressed conce .,ville residents that the Section 8 voucher program going away. Frank: There federal cuts in funding in the voucher program, but the program is not going away. e worst federal cuts were sustained in 2004 and 2005 and the LHA and BCHA did not re ove one participant family from the program. Staff worked extremely hard to avoid any cuts and successfully managed a significant funding transition in the Voucher program. Staff did have to reduce number of vouchers being issued. . Update on Voluntary Transfer process from HUD 2