Louisville Housing Authority Agenda and Packet 2010 08 31

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Property Management/Maintenance Report Rent and Occupancy Update Eviction here at Regal Square in #12 because resident could not be located after 3 months. A resident passed away at Regal Square #5. No next of kin so working with the Coroner's regarding paperwork and what's left in the apartment. Selena questioned what they do with remains. Frank stated they are usually cremated. 3 Monthly Rental Vacancy Report At Sunnyside 1 unit will be available F -1 a 40% unit and rent is set at $695. Another one is coming up at D -4 with a full rent of $910. Steve said we should make that a goal of moving residents on A Lydia Morgan unit #215 will be available since resident passed away, but will be leased to someone in mid August. Selena mentioned she wants to link people with the availabilities: Frank asked how often we used. Craigslist and if it works. Sally stated we use it a lot about 70% in conjunction with our web page. Sally also mentioned that we barely pay for advertising anymore. The audit here at Lydia Morgan from CHFA went well (tenant files). Section "8: HCV.Program Report Monthly statistics Currently 69 section 8 voucher holders reside within the City of Louisville and we are holding firm for Louisville. Holding steady on the budgetary authority. We are issuing a few more vouchers coming up, so we will get a few more people off the waiting list, which has been frozen since last year. There are currently 950 residents on the list because we need additional funding. Selena asked if there is a possibility of opening the waitlist this year? Chuck stated it has been frozen since 2005 and reopened it in 2008 and many people applied. We received well over 1000 applications, and now list is purged annually and we just need more funding: Selena thought that maybe we should open the wait list to give them some hope. Frank stated we used to never close our list and that really significantly increased application processing time and the wait time for housing. Staff felt that having the list continually open only gave the community false hope. That is why we don't have it open right now Chuck said that maybe it should be opened when it gets down to 200 individuals. We are asking for more money from Family Unification Program to fund us for 50 more vouchers. Frank Chuck said we should know in four weeks regarding the application. We are also requesting 100 vouchers for non-elderly disabled folks for a lottery will be in September. Selena said she is receiving more calls now that the Louisville office was closed. Steve asked about aid for individuals to buy homes. Frank said we have a continuum of services to promote individuals movement to homeownership. Rob says we need to build this and give people a nudge. Scott said this is all philisophical and complicated. Steve asked what percentange participate 130 participate in FSS. 400 participate in the HCP classes monthly. FSS Casa Esperanza are the most successful at promoting family