HUD/ HOUSING ATHOURITY
Your local Housing Authority or Local Public Housing Agency (PHA) is a local agency that is there to help someone navigate getting housed. Depending on income and severity of the persons situation is normally how you will be placed to receive extra support like navigation services or a case worker. They are managed by local boards to administer the funds allocated to them by HUD. They manage both government-owned public housing as well as renter- based Section 8 Vouchers - Housing Choice Vouchers to use in private housing markets.
** Section 8 Vouchers now Housing Choice Vouchers ( HCV) are the goal voucher since it give the freedom to move to anywhere in the state after your first successful year renting by completing the terms that usually specify that the lease is for one year, then goes to month to month. Downside that the wait list to get a voucher can be thousands of people and in the county that i live in the voucher list only usually only opens for a short window every 4+ years. The amount of time it takes for the voucher list to reopen is directly impacted by how the local Housing Authority's decision making on how they disperse funds.
** Project- Based Vouchers (PBV)are a Site Based vouchers these are vouchers that are attached to the unity and can be a source so stability y for a induvial but don't provide mobility. Loop hole is that PBV can potential be converted into a HCV if the renter completes the first year, because of the Housing Authority having final decision making all rent payments on time, and getting no lease violations is extremally important
**Special Purpose Vouchers -Set aside for particular groups of people, such as veterans experiencing homelessness or youth leaving the foster care system
Where The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is one of the executive departments of the U.S. federal government. It administers federal housing and urban development laws. It is headed by the secretary of housing and urban development, who reports directly to the president of the United States and is a member of the president's Cabinet.