E9-18624. Announcement of Funding Awards for the Rental Assistance for Non-Elderly Persons With Disabilities in Support of Designated Housing Plans for Fiscal Year 2008

AGENCY:

Office of Public and Indian Housing, HUD.

ACTION:

Announcement of Funding Awards.

SUMMARY:

In accordance with Section 102(a)(4)(C) of the Department of Housing and Urban Development Reform Act of 1989, this announcement notifies the public of funding decisions made by the Department for funding under the FY 2008 Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) for the Rental Assistance for Non-Elderly Persons with Disabilities in Support of Designated Housing Plans program funding for Fiscal Year 2008. This announcement contains the consolidated names and addresses of those award recipients selected for funding based on guidelines established in the NOFA.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

For questions concerning the FY 2008 Rental Assistance for Non-Elderly Persons with Disabilities in Support of Designated Housing Plans program awards, contact the Office of Public and Indian Housing's Grant Management Center, Acting Director, Keia L. Neal, Department of Housing and Urban Development, Washington, DC, telephone [phone]. For the hearing or speech impaired, these numbers may be accessed via TTY (text telephone) by calling the Federal Information Relay Service at 1 [phone]. (Other than the “800” TTY number, these telephone numbers are not toll-free.)

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

The authority for the $15,000,000 in one-year budget authority for the Rental Assistance for Non-Elderly Persons with Disabilities in Support of Designated Housing Plans program is found in the Departments of Veteran Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 2008 (Pub. L.110-161). The allocation of housing assistance budget authority is pursuant to the provisions of 24 CFR part 791, subpart D, implementing section 213(d) of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, as amended.

The purpose of the Rental Assistance for Non-Elderly Persons with Disabilities in Support of Designated Housing Plans program is to provide vouchers to non-elderly disabled families that would have been housed by a PHA if occupancy in the designated public housing project/building (or portion thereof) were not restricted to elderly households. The vouchers will enable non-elderly disabled families to access affordable private housing.

The Fiscal Year 2008 awards announced in this Notice were selected for funding in a competition announced in the Federal Register NOFA published on November 28, 2008. In accordance with Section 102(a)(4)(C) of the Department of Housing and Urban Development Reform Act of 1989 (103 Stat. 1987, 42 U.S.C. 3545), the Department is publishing the names, addresses, and amounts of the fourteen (14) awards made under the Rental Assistance for Non-Elderly Persons with Disabilities in Support of Designated Housing Plans program competition.

Dated: July 29, 2009.

Sandra B. Henriquez,

Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing, P.

Recipient	Address/City/State/Zip code	Amount	Vouchers
Sacramento County Housing Authority	630 I Street, Sacramento, CA 95814	$878,784	100
Housing Authority of the City of Orlando, FL	390 North Bumby Avenue, Orlando, FL 32803	$740,124	100
City of Des Moines Municipal Housing Agency	100 East Euclid Avenue, Suite 101, Des Moines, IA 50313	$251,907	53
Chicago Housing Authority	60 East Van Buren Street, Chicago, IL 60605	$948,012	100
Housing Authority of Joliet	6 South Broadway Street, Joliet, IL 60436	$222,269	45
Housing Authority of the County of Cook	175 West Jackson Boulevard, Suite 350, Chicago, IL 60604	$981,732	100
Topeka Housing Authority	2010 South East California Avenue, Topeka, KS 66607	$298,539	75
Cambridge Housing Authority	675 Mass Avenue, Cambridge, MA, 02139	$1,477,092	100
Framingham Housing Authority	1 John J. Brady Drive, Framingham, MA 01702	$945,983	90
Housing Opportunities Commission of Montgomery County, MD	10400 Detrick Avenue, Kensington, MD 20895	$1,229,004	100
Housing Authority of the County of Butler	114 Woody Drive, Butler, PA 16001	$274,608	50
Town of Cumberland Housing Authority	573 Mendon Road Suite #4, Cumberland, RI 02864	$228,107	29
Town of North Providence Housing Authority	945 Charles Street, North Providence, RI 02904	$188,544	25
King County Housing Authority	600 Andover Park West, Tukwila, WA 98188	$868,128	100