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Southern Nevada Regional Housing Authority outlines $50M Choice Neighborhood grant and ongoing housing pipeline
Summary
The Southern Nevada Regional Housing Authority briefed the City Council on programs and projects, including a $50 million Choice Neighborhood Initiative award plus a $3 million jobs program, more than 13,000 housing choice vouchers, a combined waitlist over 30,000 applicants, and roughly 1,600 units currently under construction or rehabilitation.
Louis Jordan, executive director of the Southern Nevada Regional Housing Authority, told the North Las Vegas City Council on April 16 that the agency is pursuing multiple housing projects and resident programs to address the region’s affordable housing needs.
Jordan said the authority manages a portfolio that includes more than 13,000 Housing Choice Vouchers (Section 8) serving over 45,000 residents and maintains a combined waitlist of about 32,000 people. He said the agency’s annual budget is approximately $244,000,000 and that the authority currently has about 1,600 units either under construction (roughly 800) or under rehabilitation (roughly 800).
Jordan highlighted a federal Choice Neighborhood Initiative award of $50 million to revitalize the Marble Manor area; he said that grant will leverage additional private and public investment and that the housing authority’s planning and partnership work brought those dollars into the region. He also described a nearly $3 million jobs‑focused award tied to the Choice work that will provide employment training and pathways for residents; together Jordan characterized the federal awards as about $53 million in recent federal support for the initiative.
Jordan described other programs the authority runs to increase housing access: a landlord incentive program to recruit landlords to accept vouchers (the authority reported 107 new units from 55 new landlords year‑to‑date), a Family Self‑Sufficiency program in which participants earn escrowed rent contributions back as they meet self‑sufficiency goals (recent graduations returned over $400,000 in escrow to participants), and a pre‑apprenticeship program with direct hiring outcomes. He said the authority works to spread affordable opportunities across jurisdictions and to partner with local governments and developers.
Councilmembers thanked Jordan and noted interest in local breakdowns of voucher usage and site tours. Council members asked about wait times; Jordan said waits vary by unit type and can be several years for some applicants. He offered to provide council with jurisdiction‑specific voucher and program participation numbers and to arrange tours of housing authority properties.
The item was a presentation and required no council action.
