TOWN OF NATICK Housing Production Plan
TOWN OF NATICK Housing Production Plan
TOWN OF NATICK Housing Production Plan
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housing. Natick Services Council recently started offering a Living Well Program which assists<br />
with behavioral and mental health and some housing authority residents are utilizing this<br />
program. The provision of supportive services to housing authority residents is becoming<br />
increasingly important, especially to elderly housing residents. Therefore, the housing<br />
authority would benefit greatly from the additional of a supportive services coordinator.<br />
The family housing developments include scattered site housing at Curve, High, Pond,<br />
Westview, S. Main, School, Webster, and West Hill Park. The average wait time for a family<br />
unit is 10 years. This long wait is attributed to the limited number of units as well as the<br />
tendency of families to stay in their units once they move in, so there is minimal turnover and<br />
therefore vacancy. The housing authority owns and manages two group homes on West Hill<br />
Park totaling 10 residents. The chart below shows the wait list for family public housing units<br />
as of January 12, 2012 with a breakdown for local preference and low income status (Merrit,<br />
2012). The majority of households on the NHA wait list are at the 30% AMI level.<br />
Table 30<br />
NHA FAMILY PUBLIC HOUSING WAIT LIST<br />
Unit Type One Two Three<br />
Total Households 692 363 55<br />
Local Preference 52 27 3<br />
LP at 50%-80% 3 2 0<br />
The housing authority also administers 102 Section 8 mobile vouchers and 7 MRVP vouchers.<br />
They utilize the NAHRA centralized wait list and report only having 3-4 vouchers returned in a<br />
year and become available to new rental households (Merrit, 2012).<br />
Table 31<br />
PUBLIC HOUSING<br />
Community Natick<br />
Family units 89<br />
Wait List 5-15 years<br />
Elderly/disabled units 323<br />
Wait List 6 months - year<br />
Section 8 Mobile Vouchers 102<br />
Wait List 5 or more years<br />
Centralized List Yes<br />
Other units 10-person group home<br />
MRVP Units 7<br />
We spoke with David Parish, a member of the Board of the Natick <strong>Housing</strong> Authority to learn<br />
about current and future priorities (Parish, 2012). The NHA has undergone a change in senior<br />
management and its main focus is to get units that have been off line, back on line and also to<br />
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