Welfare and job training agencies are frequent partners with PHAs in these programs. Some agencies use joint application or recertification forms for welfare and housing assistance, reducing the time and paperwork necessary for applications. In some areas, housing agencies help tenants facing work requirements imposed by welfare reform to obtain jobs, training, and supportive services. HUD provides some special grant funds for this purpose, mostly for public housing tenants. As tenants' earnings increase, the PHA does not retain increased rental payments, but instead places the money in a savings account.
Tenants can use the money for work-related expenses or other purposes.
2 Center on Budget and Policy Priorities tabulations of 1996 AFDC Quality Control Data. Because these figures have some margin of error, small differences between states should not be treated as significant. Your browser must have Java Script enabled for this menu to work. Back to 2000 Advocate's Guide to Housing and Community Development Policy Index .