The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Ben Carson announced $472 million nationally in CARES Act funding to help low-income families during the coronavirus pandemic, including $5.3 million to 49 public housing authorities (PHAs) throughout Indiana.
This funding can be used by public housing authorities to help families assisted by Housing Choice Vouchers (HCV) and Mainstream vouchers prevent, prepare for, and respond to the coronavirus.
“This funding will provide additional resources to public housing authorities to make sure people have a decent, safe, and affordable place to call home,” said HUD Secretary Ben Carson. “HUD continues to work with our public housing authorities to protect American families from this invisible enemy, including vulnerable residents in the Housing Choice Voucher Program.”
“These new funds are important and will go a long way to help low-income residents secure and retain affordable housing during this unprecedented time,” said Hunter Kurtz, Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing.
“Public housing authorities have a vital role to play as we continue our COVID‑19 recovery efforts,” said Joseph P. Galvan, HUD Midwest Regional Administrator. “We will continue working diligently to overcome this as expeditiously as possible.”
The Housing Choice Voucher Program (HCV) includes the Mainstream Program that provides tenant-based vouchers serving low-income households.
The eligible coronavirus-related activities include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Procuring cleaning supplies and/or services to maintain safe and sanitary HCV units, including common areas of PHA-owned Project-Based Voucher (PBV) projects.
- Relocation of participating families to health units or other designated units for testing, hospitalization, or quarantine, or transportation to these locations to limit the exposure that could be caused by using mass transportation.
- Additional costs to supportive services vendors incurred due to coronavirus.
- Costs to retain or increase owner participation in the HCV Program, such as incentive or retention costs (e.g. the PHA offers the owner an incentive payment to participate in recognition of added difficulties of making units available for HCV families to rent while stay-at-home orders or social distancing practices are in effect).
- Costs for providing childcare for the children of PHA staff that would not have otherwise been incurred (e.g. children are at home due to school closings, PHA staff are working outside of regular work schedules, etc.).
For more information on HUD’s response to the novel coronavirus pandemic and the actions the Department has taken, please visit HUD.gov/coronavirus. Public housing authorities across the nation have jumped into action to help assist their tenants and their communities during this unprecedented time. Read more about their stories featured in HUD’s Neighbors Helping Neighbors campaign, here.
The following public housing authorities across Indiana received funding:
|
State
|
Public Housing Authority
|
City
|
Amount
|
|
IN
|
Housing Authority of the City of Anderson
|
Anderson
|
$ 181,719
|
|
IN
|
Housing Authority City of Bedford
|
Bedford
|
$ 18,991
|
|
IN
|
Knox County Housing Authority
|
Bicknell
|
$ 25,407
|
|
IN
|
Bloomfield Housing Authority
|
Bloomfield
|
$ 3,456
|
|
IN
|
Housing Authority of the City of Bloomington
|
Bloomington
|
$ 177,736
|
|
IN
|
Brazil Housing Authority
|
Brazil
|
$ 10,392
|
|
IN
|
Housing Authority of the City of Charlestown
|
Charlestown
|
$ 5,451
|
|
IN
|
Columbus Housing Authority
|
Columbus
|
$ 76,410
|
|
IN
|
Housing Authority of the County of Fayette
|
Connersville
|
$ 39,244
|
|
IN
|
Housing Authority of the City of Crawfordsville
|
Crawfordsville
|
$ 53,330
|
|
IN
|
Housing Authority of the City of Decatur
|
Decatur
|
$ 21,064
|
|
IN
|
Housing Authority of the City of East Chicago
|
East Chicago
|
$ 132,662
|
|
IN
|
Housing Authority of the City of Elkhart
|
Elkhart
|
$ 94,317
|
|
IN
|
Housing Authority of the City of Elwood
|
Elwood
|
$ 43,476
|
|
IN
|
Housing Authority of the City of Evansville
|
Evansville
|
$ 284,546
|
|
IN
|
Fort Wayne Housing Authority
|
Fort Wayne
|
$ 379,172
|
|
IN
|
Housing Authority of the City of Gary Indiana
|
Gary
|
$ 279,829
|
|
IN
|
Housing Authority of the City of Greencastle
|
Greencastle
|
$ 18,231
|
|
IN
|
Housing Authority of the City of Greensburg
|
Greensburg
|
$ 8,557
|
|
IN
|
Housing Authority of the City of Hammond
|
Hammond
|
$ 109,457
|
|
IN
|
Indianapolis Housing Agency
|
Indianapolis
|
$ 1,213,873
|
|
IN
|
Indiana Housing and Community Development Authority
|
Indianapolis
|
$ 793,270
|
|
IN
|
Housing Authority of the City of Jasonville
|
Jasonville
|
$ 3,969
|
|
IN
|
Housing Authority of the City of Jeffersonville
|
Jeffersonville
|
$ 49,937
|
|
IN
|
Kokomo Housing Authority
|
Kokomo
|
$ 91,905
|
|
IN
|
Housing Authority of the City of Lafayette
|
Lafayette
|
$ 177,468
|
|
IN
|
Linton Housing Authority
|
Linton
|
$ 23,687
|
|
IN
|
Housing Authority of the City of Logansport
|
Logansport
|
$ 33,708
|
|
IN
|
Housing Authority of the City of Marion
|
Marion
|
$ 49,683
|
|
IN
|
Housing Authority of the City of Michigan City
|
Michigan City
|
$ 39,404
|
|
IN
|
Housing Authority of the City of Warsaw
|
Milford
|
$ 46,897
|
|
IN
|
Housing Authority of the City of Mishawaka
|
Mishawaka
|
$ 40,766
|
|
IN
|
Mount Vernon Housing Authority
|
Mt. Vernon
|
$ 22,375
|
|
IN
|
Delaware County Housing Authority
|
Muncie
|
$ 22,862
|
|
IN
|
Housing Authority of the City of Muncie
|
Muncie
|
$ 106,791
|
|
IN
|
Housing Authority of the City of New Albany
|
New Albany
|
$ 81,019
|
|
IN
|
New Castle Housing Authority
|
New Castle
|
$ 37,858
|
|
IN
|
Noblesville Housing Authority
|
Noblesville
|
$ 30,219
|
|
IN
|
Housing Authority of the County of St. Joseph
|
North Liberty
|
$ 22,648
|
|
IN
|
Housing Authority of the City of Peru
|
Peru
|
$ 19,622
|
|
IN
|
Housing Authority of the City of Richmond
|
Richmond
|
$ 35,974
|
|
IN
|
Rockville Housing Authority
|
Rockville
|
$ 13,333
|
|
IN
|
Seymour Housing Authority
|
Seymour
|
$ 19,090
|
|
IN
|
Housing Authority of South Bend
|
South Bend
|
$ 269,555
|
|
IN
|
Housing Authority of the City of Tell City
|
Tell City
|
$ 7,548
|
|
IN
|
Cannelton Housing Authority
|
Tell City
|
$ 17,356
|
|
IN
|
Housing Authority of the City of Terre Haute
|
Terre Haute
|
$ 99,881
|
|
IN
|
Housing Authority of the City of Union City
|
Union City
|
$ 15,973
|
|
IN
|
Vincennes Housing Authority
|
Vincennes
|
$ 35,722
|
|
Indiana Total
|
$ 5,385,840
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National Total
|
$472,204,315
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