PIH Programs
Below
is a summary of public housing programs within the Office of Public
and Indian Housing:
Capital
Fund
The Capital Fund provides funds to housing authorities to modernize
public housing developments.
Demolition/Disposition
The Demo/Dispo program was created in an effort to help eliminate
old, run down public housing.
Family
Self-Sufficiency
Family self-sufficiency (FSS) is a HUD program that encourages communities
to develop local strategies to help assisted families obtain employment
that will lead to economic independence and self-sufficiency.
Homeownership
A Public Housing Authority (PHA) may sell all, or a portion of,
a public housing development to eligible residents or resident organizations,
for purposes of homeownership, provided that a Homeownership Plan
has been submitted by the PHA and has been approved by HUD.
HOPE VI
Since 1993, HOPE VI has been the engine driving the revitalization
of the Nation's most distressed public housing developments by providing
grants and unprecedented flexibility to address the housing and
social service needs of their residents.
Housing Choice Vouchers (Formerly
Section 8)
Allow very low-income families to choose and lease or purchase safe,
decent, and affordable privately-owned rental housing.
Moderate Rehabilitation
Provides project-based rental assistance for low income families.
The program was repealed in 1991 and no new projects are authorized
for development. Assistance is limited to properties previously
rehabilitated pursuant to a housing assistance payments (HAP) contract
between an owner and a Public Housing Agency (PHA).
Moving to Work Demonstration (MTW)
MTW is a demonstration program that allows housing authorities (Has)
to design and test ways to give incentives to families to become
economically self-sufficient, achieve programmatic efficiencies,
reduce costs, and increase housing choice for low-income households.
Operating
Fund
The Public Housing Operating Fund provides operating subsidies to
housing authorities (HAs) to assist in funding the operating and
maintenance expenses of their own dwellings, in accordance with
Section 9 of the U.S. Housing Act of 1937, as amended. The subsidies
are required to help maintain services and provide minimum operating
reserves.
Rental
Housing Integrity Improvement Project (RHIIP)
Develops and implements plans which address HUD’s high risk rental
housing subsidy programs.
Resident
Opportunities and Self Sufficiency (ROSS) and Neighborhood Networks
(NN)
The ROSS program links services to public housing residents by providing
grants for supportive services, resident empowerment activities
and activities to assist residents in becoming economically self-sufficient.
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