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Recommendation to adopt resolution authorizing the Assistant Executive Director and the Deputy Executive Director to execute all documents necessary to conduct a public hearing to review the proposed 2019 Annual Plan, receive supporting documentation into the record, conclude the hearing, and adopt resolution to certify the Annual Plan. (Citywide)
DISCUSSION
This hearing is to review and adopt a new revised Annual Housing Plan (Exhibit A to Resolution), as required by Section 511 of the Quality Housing and Work Responsibility Act of 1998.
In 1998, Congress enacted legislation known as the Quality Housing and Work Responsibility Act, requiring each Housing Authority to complete an Annual Plan and to update and submit them to HUD prior to the beginning of the Housing Authority’s fiscal year. The Housing Authority initially approved its first Plans in June 2000, and has subsequently submitted Annual Plans to HUD on an annual basis.
The 2019 Annual Plan provides details about the Housing Authority’s immediate operations, programs, and services, and is updated annually. The Annual Plan also addresses the Housing Authority’s strategy for handling operational concerns, as well as residents’ concerns and needs. Please note that staff is not recommending any major changes to the administration of the Housing Authority’s affordable housing programs at this time. However, we are currently in the process of implementing a new project-based voucher development: Anchor Place, a community operated by Century Villages on the west side of Long Beach.
The Housing Authority will continue to review new requests for project-based voucher usage for housing special needs populations, as identified in the City’s Consolidated Plan and Housing Element, as funding allows. As proposed in the Five-Year Plan, the Housing Authority will also revise and update the Administrative Plan to concur with all HUD Housing Federal Regulations.
HUD regulations require that a Resident ...
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