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Housing authority outlines plan to transition 920 emergency housing voucher holders after federal funding ends
Summary
Acting Executive Director Daniel Adams told the commission the federal emergency housing voucher (EHV) program funding will lapse around September, and the authority plans to move most of the roughly 920 EHV households into project-based vouchers or swap federal tenant-protection vouchers (TPVs) for EHVs; the city set aside $27 million as a transition reserve.
Acting Executive Director Daniel Adams told the San Francisco Housing Authority commission on Feb. 5 that federal funding for the emergency housing voucher (EHV) program is expected to run out around September and the authority has developed a cross-departmental plan to prevent households from losing housing.
Adams said San Francisco received roughly 920 EHVs and that the population served is disproportionately Black and African American and largely composed of single adults. "We were very successful in utilizing the 920 vouchers," Adams said, and he added that about 99 households have ported out of the city. The authority is pursuing two main approaches to preserve housing for remaining recipients: (1) administratively place EHV holders on the project-based voucher (PBV) wait list via an anticipated HUD waiver so…
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