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June 9, 2008
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Agenda
Item No. MHGB2 Roll Call No. 08- Communication
No. 08-349 Submitted
by: Chris M. Johansen, Housing
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AGENDA
HEADING:
Approving an
amendment to the City of Des Moines Municipal Housing Agency Section 8 Housing
Choice Voucher Administrative Plan to include the Family Self-Sufficiency
Program Fair Housing Addendum.
SYNOPSIS:
Recommend
approval of an amendment to the City of Des Moines Municipal Housing Agency
Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Administrative Plan to include the Family
Self-Sufficiency Program Fair Housing Addendum.
FISCAL
IMPACT: NONE
Amount: N/A
Funding
Source: N/A
ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION:
The City of Des
Moines Municipal Housing Agency received funding last year from HUD for a
full-time program coordinator to administer a Housing Choice Voucher Family
Self-Sufficiency Program for Section 8 clients.
The program
coordinator provides individual case management to assist clients in achieving
goals to become self-sufficient. FSS
Coordinators provide training, education, and job development skills to
enrolled clients.
As a requirement
for submitting a grant application for funding this year, housing agencies must
have a Fair Housing Addendum for their Family Self-Sufficiency Program included
in their Administrative Plan for the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program.
The amendment
adds language to the Administrative Plan that references the Fair Housing
Addendum. The Fair Housing Addendum
outlines steps the housing agency will take to further fair housing in the
Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Family Self-Sufficiency Program.
PREVIOUS
COUNCIL ACTION(S): NONE
BOARD/COMMISSION
ACTION(S):
Date: March
24, 2008
Roll Call
Number: 08-449
Action: Approval of the City of Des Moines Municipal
Houisng Agency Five Year and One Year Agency Plans. (Council
Communication No. 08-144) Moved by Nesbitt to approve. Motion Carried 8-0.
ANTICIPATED
ACTIONS AND FUTURE COMMITMENTS:
NONE
For more information on this and other agenda items,
please call the City Clerk’s Office at 515-283-4209 or visit the Clerk’s Office
on the second floor of City Hall,