Identifying and Building Partnerships 

with Your Local Housing Sector 

Virtual Workshop 2 

Public Housing and Private HUD Assisted Housing

2023
Virtual Workshop Series

• Workshop #1 Introductory housing concepts

• Workshop #2 Public housing and private HUD assisted housing

• Workshop #3 Engaging local housing officials
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1. Coordinate Technical Assistance

2. Facilitate Partnerships

3. Recognize and Share Innovations

4. Leverage and Align Resources

Learn more at: acl.gov/HousingAndServices

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What’s Possible

When we work together to align and leverage our work to coordinate 

affordable, accessible housing with increased access to health and 

social services, we create the infrastructure to fully meet the needs of 

the people we serve. 

“Partnerships don’t just happen, however. They need ‘connective 

tissue’—an infrastructure supporting frequent and systemic level 

collaborations—to help form the partnership and hold it together over 

time.”

Building connective tissue for effective housing-health initiatives (brookings.edu)

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PUBLIC HOUSING PROGRAMS
Public Housing Programs

• Public housing was established to provide decent and safe rental housing 

for eligible low-income families, older adults, and persons with disabilities. 

• Public housing comes in all sizes and types, from scattered single-family 

houses to high rise apartments. 

• There are approximately 1.2 million households living in public housing 

units, managed by some 3,300 public housing agencies.

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Public Housing Agencies (PHAs)

• There are an estimated 3,300 PHAs in the US

• Established to provide decent and safe rental housing for eligible 

low-income families, older adults, and persons with disabilities

• The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development 

(HUD) administers Federal aid to PHAs

• Some housing agencies (also called housing authorities) are 

part of a city or county government but most housing authorities 

exist apart from other government structures and have a board 

of commissioners

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PHA Programs

Project-Based Programs

Public Housing (Elderly and/or disabled 

housing and family housing)

Project Based Voucher (PBV)

Tenant-Based Programs

Housing Choice Vouchers (HCV or 

“Section 8”)

Mainstream and NonElderly Disabled 

(NED) vouchers (for people with 

disabilities ages 18-61)

Veterans Affairs for Supportive Housing 

(VASH) (for homeless veterans)

Family Unification Program (FUP) (for 

youth aging out of foster care and 

reuniting families)

Emergency Housing Voucher (EHV) 

(for people experiencing homeless)
HUD’s PHA Contacts Web Page

https://www.hud.gov/program_offices/public_indian_housing/pha/contacts
PHA Contacts

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https://www.hud.gov/program_offices/public_indian_housing/pha/contacts
HUD’s Housing Choice Vouchers Dashboard

https://www.hud.gov/program_offices/public_indian_housing/programs/hcv/dashboard

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HCV Dashboard Program Information

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https://www.hud.gov/program_offices/public_indian_housing/programs/hcv/dashboard

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Links to U.S. Department of Housing and Urban 

Development (HUD) Programs 

• Mainstream Vouchers

https://www.hud.gov/program_offices/public_indian_housing/programs/hcv/main

stream

• Non-elderly Disabled (NED) vouchers

https://www.hud.gov/program_offices/public_indian_housing/programs/hcv/ned
HUD MULTIFAMILY ASSISTED HOUSING
HUD Multifamily Assisted Housing

• HUD funds and manages a portfolio of over 20,000 privately owned 

multifamily properties consisting of approximately 1.4 million rental units

• Numerous loan and subsidy programs created over the last four decades

• Provide rental housing that is owned by private landlords who enter into 

contracts with HUD in order to receive housing subsidies

• These subsidies pay the difference between tenant rent and total rental 

costs 

• This subsidy arrangement is termed project-based because the assisted 

household may not take the subsidy and move to another location 

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Examples of HUD Multifamily Affordable Housing

• Section 202 Supportive Housing for the Elderly (age 62 and over)

https://www.hud.gov/program_offices/housing/mfh/progdesc/eld202

• Section 811 Capital Advance - Supportive Housing for Persons with Disabilities (ages 18-61 and 

has a disability)

https://www.hud.gov/program_offices/housing/mfh/progdesc/disab811

• Section 811 Project Rental Assistance program (ages 18-61 and has a disability)

https://www.hudexchange.info/programs/811-pra/

https://www.hudexchange.info/programs/811-pra/pra-program-grantees-and-awards/

• HUD Housing Locator

https://resources.hud.gov/

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State Housing Agencies

State Community Development Departments

• https://coscda.org/states/

State Housing Finance Agencies

• https://www.ncsha.org/membership/hfa-members/

• https://www.myhousingsearch.com/resources.html
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We want to hear from you! 

Please email us at hsrc@acl.hhs.gov

Check us out 

www.acl.gov/housingandservices
Proceed to the Next Virtual Workshop

#1

Foundational 

housing concepts

#2

Public housing and 

private assisted housing 

resources

#3

Engaging local 

housing officials
About These Virtual Workshops

The following organizations contributed to this product: Technical Assistance Collaborative and 

USAging. The National Council on Independent Living, and Independent Living Research Utilization 

provided reviews.

This presentation was funded by the U.S. Administration for Community Living through a contract with Mission Analytics Group, Inc. 

(Contract number HHSP233201500060I) which subcontracted the work to USAging. The views expressed do not necessarily represent

the positions or policies of the Administration for Community Living / Department of Health and Human Services.