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Asheville Housing Authority outlines voucher counts, wait-list pressure and MTW changes amid HUD funding shifts
Summary
Ella Santos, HACA’s new president and CEO, told the Buncombe County Affordable Housing Subcommittee that HACA manages 2,679 vouchers, faces multi-year wait lists, plans MTW waivers including a 15-hour work requirement, and is pausing new project-based vouchers after recent HUD funding guidance.
Ella Santos, the newly appointed president and CEO of the Asheville Housing Authority, updated Buncombe County’s Affordable Housing Subcommittee on the authority’s portfolio, waiting lists and planned policy changes.
Santos said HACA administers both project-based and tenant-based vouchers and ‘‘administers 2,679 vouchers supporting affordable housing stability for thousands of residents across Buncombe County.’’ She described HACA’s owned inventory as about 1,525 affordable units and said HACA serves roughly 1,154 households through tenant-based vouchers.
The presentation highlighted long waiting lists: Santos said the project-based voucher waitlist contains about 4,000 households and the tenant-based list about 3,300 applicants, with some households waiting since 2019. ‘‘These wait lists highlight and reflect the growing gap between…
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