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MHGB COMMUNICATION
City Manager’s Office
GENERAL INFORMATION
Agenda Date: 11/21/05 Communication No.: 05-649
Agenda Item Type: Receive and File Roll Call No.:
Submitted by: Chris Johansen, Housing Services Director
SUBJECT—
Receive and File 2005 Section 8 Management Assessment Program (SEMAP) certification score.
SYNOPSIS—
Receive and File 2005 Section 8 Management Assessment Program (SEMAP) certification score from the United States Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD).
FISCAL IMPACT—
None
RECOMMENDATION—
Receive and File
BACKGROUND—
The Des Moines Municipal Housing Agency is required to submit an annual Section 8 Management Assessment Program (SEMAP) certification to HUD at the end of each fiscal year. The certification is used to evaluate the performance of the Section 8 program in significant areas of management operations.
The certification includes the following indicators:
· Selection from the waiting list
· Rent reasonableness
· Determination of adjusted income
· Utility allowance schedule
· Housing Quality Standards quality control inspections
· Housing Quality Standards enforcement
· Expanding housing opportunities
· Fair Market rent limit and payment standards
· Annual reexamination of clients
· Correct tenant rent calculations
· Pre-contract Housing Quality Standards inspections
· Annual Housing Quality Standards inspections
· Lease-up
· Family Self-Sufficiency (FSS) enrollment and escrow accounts
A deconcentration bonus indicator is also included.
The Housing Agency is required to perform a quality control review of client files for some of the indicators and the other indicators are assigned a performance rating using data submitted electronically through HUD's Multifamily Tenant Characteristics System.
The Housing Agency received a score of 96% (135 out of a total of 140 points), designating the agency as a “High Performer” for its Section 8 Program. The agency missed five points on the indicator for determination of adjusted income. A score of 90% or higher achieves a “High Performer” rating. This is the fourth consecutive year that the agency has received this designation. The chart below shows the agency’s performance over the past 5 years:
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