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I attended partner meeting on Tuesday at Home Forward to discuss options to cope with reduced funding from HUD because of the sequestration.
HF is looking at a wide range of options to prevent any existing housing
voucher holder from involuntarily losing their voucher because of
sequestration.
On their new sequestration webpage HERE Home Forward has posted yesterday's presentation HERE:
- Pg 13 has some of options for proposed reductions.
- Pg. 14 has possible impacts of some options at the tenant level.
- Pg 15 has planned community outreach schedule.
In response to question I raised I understand the HF will not be re-leasing tenant based housing choice vouchers as they are turned back from tenants leaving the program.
Looking at historical Dashboard reports from HF my estimate is that there could be 300-400 HF fewer tenant based vouchers in use by the end of CY 2013 (assumes 40-50 lease ups a month x 8 months, May-Dec). Actual number may vary depending when policy starts and actual turns in every month.
Originally created and posted on the Oregon Housing Blog.
HUD's AFGE union has posted some furlough related materials including a notice from HUD HERE and guidance sent to HUD employees HERE.
From the guidance document:
HUD must also reduce its salaries and expenses by $66.6 million. This will mean up to seven (7) furlough days for virtually all HUD employees between May through August 2013.
On furlough days, employees do not report to work and do not receive pay. We will require the same number of furlough days for all HUD employees and try not to schedule more than one day per pay period. HUD will do a number of things to help offset the number of furlough days. First, we will put into effect a department-wide freeze on outside hiring. Additionally, we will cut as much discretionary spending as we can from non-personnel areas without causing irreparable harm to our mission. You will feel immediate impacts in the areas of travel and training.
Originally created and posted on the Oregon Housing Blog.
Correction: In Excel file I inadvertently multiplied several cells by 1,000; formulas in those cells have now been corrected, all narrative in post remains accurate.
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Letter is HERE.
I extracted the table in the last page HERE and am embedding below.
Note that reductions in public housing, CDBG, and project based rental assistance do not appear to be included in $13 million total, so when all is said and done, my prior estimate HERE of $15 million in lost HUD funding for Oregon seems to still be feasible, if not understated.
Originally created and posted on the Oregon Housing Blog.
