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Davenport Housing Commission keeps voucher payment standard at 110% as market tightens; plans wait-list reopening and software upgrade
Summary
Staff recommended keeping the Housing Choice Voucher payment standard at 110% of HUDs fair market rents to avoid increasing renter burden amid rising rents. The commission heard updates on a low response to a wait-list purge, a planned spring reopening, a recent hire, and a proposed software upgrade that would exceed current budgeted funds.
At its Oct. 20 meeting, the Davenport Housing Commission heard staff recommend maintaining the programs payment standard at 110% of HUD fair market rents amid rising rents and landlord requests for higher rents.
Malia, a housing staff member, said the commission had discussed lowering the payment standard to 105% or 100% but that recent rent increases and landlord demands have made that impractical. "So that's just my recommendation, and that's why I did not move forward with providing additional information because in the last couple of weeks we've had people, that have been looking for housing that are currently on the program say, I can't find housing at the fair market rate that we're at right now," Malia said. She added that the authority cannot approve payment standards above 110% without HUD approval and that HUD guidance has been delayed by a federal furlough.
The recommendation to keep the 110% standard means staff expects to pull fewer households…
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