HomeMy WebLinkAboutAgenda - 06-03-2014-13 (6)INFORMATION ITEM
Housing, Human Rights and Community Development
MEMORANDUM
Date: May 27, 2014
To: Orange County Board of Commissioners
Michael Talbert, Interim County Manager
From: James E. Davis, Jr., Interim Director
RE: Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) Status Report
CC: Jean Bolduc, Orange County Housing Authority Chair
ORANGE COUNTY
NORTH CAROLINA
The purpose of this memorandum is to provide an update on the status of Housing Choice
(Section 8) Voucher holders displaced from properties managed by General Services
Corporation (GSC). The Orange County Housing Authority received notice on June 24, 2013
that GSC has opted to reject rent payments in the form of Housing Choice Vouchers. Eighty -
nine families occupying GSC apartment communities were given the option of renewing their
lease agreements using other acceptable forms of income, or moving at the end of their lease
term.
As of the date of this memo, 56 families have either moved from GSC or renewed their lease
agreements:
0 41 moved to another home within the Orange County jurisdiction
• 5 ported to another jurisdiction
• 4 renewed their lease
• 2 abandoned the property
4 voluntarily relinquished their voucher
The remaining tenants' lease agreements will expire by October 2014 at which time the tenants
must renew their lease or move out of their homes. The Orange County Housing Authority has
been working with local agencies to provide resources to the tenants that are unable to renew
their lease. Notwithstanding the expiration of the tenants' lease agreements, the vouchers will
remain effective. Therefore, the tenants will be eligible to use their vouchers in Orange County
or port their voucher to another jurisdiction.