Maryland Congressional Delegation Announces Over $4 Million in Federal Housing Assistance for Marylanders | U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen of Maryland

October 03, 2022

As we speak, U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen and Ben Cardin and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Anthony G. Brown, Jamie B. Raskin, and David Trone (all D-Md.) introduced $4,258,979 in federal help to assist low-income residents throughout Maryland afford high quality, secure, and secure housing. The help is run via the U.S. Division of Housing and City Improvement’s New Incremental Housing Selection Vouchers Program and is absolutely funded by the fiscal 12 months 2022 appropriations regulation that the lawmakers voted for in March.

“Everybody deserves a secure place to name house. However we all know housing prices are consuming up too massive a share of lower-income residents’ budgets, usually leaving them with not possible decisions between paying for lease or assembly their every day wants. This federal reduction will assist these dealing with hardship discover appropriate housing for his or her households as we proceed working to extend entry to inexpensive housing in our communities,” mentioned the lawmakers.

The federal grants have been awarded as follows: 

• $1,000,632 for the Housing Authority of Baltimore Metropolis
• $749,045 for the Housing Alternatives Fee of Montgomery County
• $730,941 for the Housing Authority of Prince George’s County
• $403,548 for Baltimore County 
• $188,204 for the Maryland Division of Housing and Neighborhood Improvement
• $153,704 for the Housing Fee of Anne Arundel County
• $115,109 for the Rockville Housing Enterprises
• $107,935 for the Howard County Housing Fee
• $102,794 for the Charles County Authorities
• $96,876 for the Metropolis of Frederick Housing Authority
• $94,579 for the Housing Authority of St. Mary’s County
• $83,195 for the Harford County Housing Company
• $70,923 for the Housing Authority of the Metropolis of Annapolis
• $53,588 for the Carroll County Housing and Neighborhood Improvement
• $49,249 for the Housing Authority of Calvert County
• $49,126 for the Cecil County Housing Company
• $47,793 for the Wicomico County Housing Authority
• $47,036 for the Housing Authority of Queen Anne’s County
• $40,570 for the Metropolis of Westminster Housing Workplace
• $39,651for the Housing Authority of Washington County
• $34,481for the Housing Fee of Talbot County

The Incremental Housing Selection Vouchers Program is the federal authorities’s main program for helping very low-income households, the aged, and these with disabilities to afford housing within the non-public market. This system’s housing help permits contributors to select their very own housing, together with single-family houses, townhouses, and flats.