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Chapter 13 – Special Programs SECTION 8: TENANT BASED RENTAL ASSISTANCE (TBRA) Tenant Based Rental Assistance (TBRA) is assistance that fills the gap between the amount a family can afford to pay for housing costs (rent and utilities) and the actual cost of housing selected by the family. The TBRA rental subsidy helps individual households afford housing costs such as rent, utility costs, security deposits, and/or utility deposits. The TBRA program is funded with federal HOME (Home Investment Partnerships Program) monies that allow SDHC to create flexible programs that provide financial assistance to individual households in order to enable them to rent market-rate units. Eligible activities include: - Rental Assistance Programs: TBRA programs may be designed to serve the general objective of making housing more affordable for a wide range of low-income households within the jurisdiction. - Targeted Population Programs: Established preference for persons with disabilities or other special needs groups. Examples of such special needs groups may include: homeless persons; persons with AIDS; or victims of domestic violence who are graduating out of transitional housing programs. - Self-sufficiency Programs: Recipients may be required to participate in self-sufficiency programs as a condition of rental assistance. - Homebuyer Programs: Assist tenants who have been identified as a potential low-income homebuyer under a lease-purchase program. - Anti-displacement Assistance Programs: Used to minimize displacement associated with HOMEfunded activities. - Security Deposit Programs: Provides assistance with utilities and security deposits. Income Eligibility Requirements. There are two key rules regarding eligible income of households under a TBRA program: - Low-income: TBRA is limited to tenants who are at or below the HUD low-income limit. The lowincome limit is defined as 80 percent or below of area median income. HUD establishes and periodically publishes this income limit by family size for each jurisdiction. - Funding allocation: For each fiscal year allocation, at least 90 percent of the families assisted through TBRA and the households occupying assisted units in HOME rental developments (taken together) must be at or below 60 percent of area median income. This means that although the program permits assistance to households with incomes of up to 80 percent of median, the PJ will only be able to serve a limited number of households whose incomes are between 60 percent and 80 percent of median. Ineligible TBRA Activities: - TBRA cannot be used to duplicate existing rental assistance programs that already reduce the tenant’s rent payment to 30% of income (24 CFR Part 92.214). - TBRA may not be used to assist a resident owner. - TBRA may not be used to prevent displacement in projects assisted with Rental Rehabilitation Funds 13-14
Chapter 13 – Special Programs - TBRA may not be used to provide overnight or temporary shelter to homeless persons. - TBRA cannot be used with Project-based rental assistance The TBRA program will be modeled after the Housing Choice Voucher Program with the following exceptions: - Referrals are accepted from the appropriate service provider and local residency preferences are not applied. - Contracts cannot exceed two years - Contracts can be renewed, based on HOME fund availability. - Participants are not eligible to move out of SDHC jurisdiction with continued assistance. - Initial Lease-Up will be effective the first of a month. SECTION 9: NON-ELDERLY PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES VOUCHERS The SDHC (SDHC) will take to reasonable steps to affirmatively further fair housing for classes protected under the Fair Housing Act in regards to the vouchers awarded under the Non-Elderly Persons with Disabilities Notice of Funding Availability, Section III.C.4.b. In addition to the current Fair Housing Policy as stated in the SDHC Housing Choice Voucher Program Administrative Plan (attached), the SDHC will take reasonable steps to inform affected applicants on how to file a fair housing complaint, including the provision of the toll-free number for the Fair Housing Complaint Hotline: 9-800-669-9777. Persons with hearing or speech impairments may access this number via TTY by calling the Federal Information Relay Service at 800-887-8339. Additionally, the SDHC will comply with the affirmatively furthering fair housing requirements of 24 CFR Section 903.7(o) by: - Examining its programs or proposed programs; - Identifying any impediments to fair housing choice within those programs; - Addressing those impediments in a reasonable fashion in view of the resources available; - Working with local jurisdictions to implement any of the jurisdiction’s initiative to affirmatively further fair housing that require the SDHC ‘s involvement; and - Maintaining records reflecting these analyses and actions. Further, the SDHC will take the following protective steps in addressing accessibility problems for persons with disabilities; - Where requested by an individual, help program applicants and participants gain access to supportive services available within the community, but not require eligible applicants - or participants to accept such supportive services as condition of continued participation in the program; - Identify public and private funding sources to assist participants with disabilities in covering the costs of structural alterations and other accessibility features that are needed as accommodations for their disabilities; 13-15
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