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Council approves updated Housing Choice Voucher administrative plan; inspection standards tightened pending HOPMA timeline
Summary
The council approved an updated administrative plan for the city’s Housing Choice Voucher program that incorporates new HUD inspection standards and provisions to add HOPMA changes once they take effect; staff said funding levels for 2025 were not yet finalized but were expected to be similar to prior years.
The New Iberia City Council voted to approve Resolution No. 2553, adopting an updated administrative plan for the city's Housing Choice Voucher (Section 8) program. The update incorporates current policies and places placeholder provisions for the Housing Opportunity Through Modernization Act (HOPMA) changes that HUD has delayed implementing.
Haley, who presented the item, told the council HUD’s new HOPMA provisions were expected to take effect in 2025 but remain…
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