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Vallejo housing authority reports major Section 8 performance gains after system fixes and higher payment standard
Summary
Housing Director Alicia Jones told the commission the housing authority's Section 8 (CMAP) score rose from 63% (FY23–24) and is expected to reach 81% (FY24–25) after implementing quality-control inspections, monthly recertification reviews and a HUD waiver that raised payment standards to 120%.
Housing Director Alicia Jones told the Housing and Community Development Commission that the City of Vallejo's Housing Choice Voucher program saw measurable improvement in its HUD Section 8 management assessment performance.
Jones said the agency was approved at 85 of 135 available points (about 63%) for fiscal year 2023–24 and now expects to receive 110 points of the 135 available (about 81%) for fiscal year 2024–25, an increase she described as the result of internal process changes. "We put inspection protocols in place to conduct quality control. We put systems in place to do our monthly reviews on our annual recertifications, and any errors we identify, we correct them immediately," Jones said.
Why it matters: HUD uses 14 indicators — including waiting-list selection,…
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