Austin, TX
HUD, HACA announce 300 new housing vouchers
HUD, HACA announce 300 new housing vouchers
A whole lot of latest vouchers will quickly be out there to Austinites in want of housing help.
AUSTIN, Texas – A whole lot of latest vouchers will quickly be out there to Austinites in want of housing help.
“The Secretary and I are grateful to see our funds in motion as we speak,” mentioned HUD Deputy Secretary Adrianne Todman. “We have now to accommodate folks first after which have the ability to give all of them the providers and wraparound assist that they want. It is a highly effective mannequin. It really works throughout the nation and I am excited to see it come to life right here.”
Utilizing funding from the U.S. Division of Housing and City Improvement, the Housing Authority of the Metropolis of Austin (HACA) can be offering 300 new housing vouchers with 100 designated particularly for homeless veterans.
“Every of those properties, as soon as the items are prepared, may also present vital, supportive providers to those people and to the households to make sure that they keep efficiently housed,” mentioned Michael Gerber, CEO of HACA.
Vouchers enable residents to solely pay a portion of the price of lease.
“Venture-based housing alternative vouchers are a extremely efficient method of decreasing homelessness and housing instability for our most susceptible low-income households,” mentioned Mayor Kirk Watson. “Analysis exhibits us that housing vouchers contribute to lifting folks out of poverty, decreasing racial inequity and offering the compassionate serving to hand that so lots of our neighbors might have.”
The vouchers can be distributed to a number of housing tasks all through Austin.
“Our housing voucher award will help folks ages 55 and older who’re transitioning from homelessness to everlasting housing,” mentioned Jo Kathryn Quinn, president and CEO of Caritas of Austin. “We anticipate to interrupt floor this summer season, yielding 150 extra items of supportive housing for Austin and Travis County, and these vouchers are such a vital half.”
Tasks receiving vouchers are listed beneath:
- Austin Housing Finance Company (Metropolis of Austin): 10 VASH (Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing) vouchers for veterans, Nation Inn Lodge Conversion
- Caritas of Austin: 30 project-based vouchers and 20 VASH vouchers, Cairn Level property
- Elizabeth Properties: 25 VASH vouchers for veterans, Kensington Flats
- Household Eldercare: 25 project-based vouchers and 10 VASH vouchers, Actual Gardens
- Basis Communities: 30 project-based vouchers and 20 VASH vouchers, Burleson Studios; 10 project-based vouchers, Skyline Terrace
- Lifeworks: 25 project-based vouchers, The Works at Tillery
- SAFE Alliance: 30 project-based vouchers, Lancaster; 25 project-based vouchers, The Sasha
- SGI Ventures: 25 project-based vouchers and 15 VASH vouchers, The Roz
Downtown Austin Salvation Military residents, homeless advocates protest anticipated closure of shelter
The Austin Space Commander introduced the 100-bed downtown shelter would shut, in a letter launched mid-February, on March 15.
Nevertheless, as some doorways open to these in want of housing help, different doorways are shutting.
The Salvation Military introduced final month it will be closing its downtown shelter on March fifteenth. On Thursday, offended shelter residents and advocates for the homeless neighborhood held a press convention in response to the information.
Mayor Watson mentioned Friday’s announcement might doubtlessly profit these residents as they contemplate “all kinds of choices.”
“It’s an unlucky factor that Salvation Military has completed right here, as a result of we have already got a inhabitants of individuals residing homeless that we’re making an attempt to deal with and this provides to that,” mentioned Mayor Watson. “However we will be quite a lot of choices, together with the potential for using vouchers to assist get folks into locations.”
In response to Gerber, some vouchers can be out there inside a few months. Others is probably not out there for as much as two years if the property is not constructed but.