Committee votes to forward AHSP clarification on project-based voucher rent standards
Buncombe County staff proposed clarifying language in the Affordable Housing Service Program to accept housing-authority rent standards for project-based vouchers (which can exceed fair market rent); the committee voted to recommend the revisions to the full board.
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Jonathan, county staff, presented proposed administrative clarifications to the Affordable Housing Service Program (AHSP), focusing on a new clarification that rent limits for AHSP-funded projects may align with housing authority standards for project-based vouchers. He explained those vouchers can be assigned to specific units and that federal/regulatory practice allows housing authorities to set project-based voucher payment standards above fair market rent.
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