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June 8, 2015 Chairman Brian S. Dempsey Chairwoman Karen E President June 8, 2015 Vincent O’Donnell Vice Presidents Chairman Brian S. Dempsey Chairwoman Karen E. Spilka Jack Cooper Representative Stephen Kulik Senator Sal N. DiDomenico Charleen Regan Representative Todd M. Smola Senator Viriato M. deMacedo Treasurer Jeanne Pinado RE: Conference Committee Recommendations for the Alternative Housing Clerk Voucher Program (7004-9030) Naomi Sweitzer Executive Director Dear Distinguished Members of the FY2016 Budget Conference Committee, Brenda Clement Thank you for your commitment to housing and homelessness prevention in the FY2016 budget. We are writing to ask the Conference Committee to accept the Senate appropriation of $4.75 million with amended program language for the Alternative Housing Voucher Program (AHVP). As you know, AHVP provides rental assistance to approximately 400 very low- income households for persons with disabilities under the age of 60. This program helps further the Commonwealth’s goal of providing persons with disabilities choices to find community-based homes and avoid more costly institutional living. There is a critical need for AHVP, with over 2,100 people on the waiting list for the program and another 30,900 applicants with disabilities on the waitlist for Section 8 vouchers. The Senate’s budget proposal supports a $1.2 million increase for AHVP, which would bring its total funding to $4.75 million. In 1995, when AHVP began, the program was funded at $4 million, which supported 800 vouchers. Due to funding cuts, inflation, and rent increases, AHVP currently supports only 418 vouchers. The additional funding in the Senate budget proposal would help approximately 140 more low-income people with disabilities find community-based homes. The Senate proposal also changes the program’s language to remove the word “transitional” from the line-item to better align the program language with its actual use. AHVP was created to provide rental subsidies to non-elderly low-income people with disabilities, as an alternative to state-funded elderly/disabled housing developments. It allows individuals with disabilities to find stable, often long-term, housing in the community, and has never functioned as a transitional program. Currently, because of the term “transitional,” some housing authorities require AHVP voucher holders to document annually that they are searching for other housing, even though AHVP provides stable housing and other options are very limited. Removing the word “transitional” will bring the language in line with the program’s actual function. 18 Tremont Street •Suite 401 • Boston, MA 02108 • Telephone (617) 742-0820 • Fax (617) 742-3953 • Website: www.chapa.org Thank you for your leadership and for your support of helping persons with disabilities find affordable homes within their communities. If you have any questions or for more information, please contact Allegra Stout at the Boston Center for Independent Living, [email protected], 617-338-6665. Sincerely, Brenda Clement Bill Henning Executive Director Executive Director Citizens’ Housing and Planning Association Boston Center for Independent Living cc: Rep. Robert A. DeLeo, Speaker of the House of Representatives Sen. Stanley C. Rosenberg, President of the Senate Rep. Kevin G. Honan, Chairman, Joint Committee on Housing Sen. Linda Dorcena Forry, Chairwoman, Joint Committee on Housing Sponsors & Co-Sponsors of AHVP Budget Amendments: Rep. Timothy J. Toomey Rep. Brian R. Mannal Rep. Ruth B. Balser Rep. Paul W. Mark Rep. Christine P. Barber Rep. Paul McMurtry Rep. Jennifer E. Benson Rep. James J. O’Day Rep. Paul Brodeur Rep. William Smitty Pignatelli Rep. James M. Cantwell Rep. Denise Provost Rep. Nick Collins Rep. Tom Sannicandro Rep. Tackey Chan Rep. Frank I. Smizik Rep. Josh S. Cutler Rep. Theodore C. Speliotis Rep. Michael S. Day Rep. Walter F. Timilty Rep. Marjorie C. Decker Rep. Steven Ultrino Rep. Diana DiZoglio Rep. John C. Velis Rep. Daniel M. Donahue Sen. Jamie B. Eldridge Rep. Michelle M. DuBois Sen. Michael J. Barrett Rep. Gloria F. Fox Sen. William N. Brownsberger Rep. Sean Garballey Sen. Cynthia S. Creem Rep. Thomas A. Golden, Jr. Sen. Brian A. Joyce Rep. Carlos Gonzalez Sen. John Keenan Rep. Kenneth I. Gordon Sen. Jason M. Lewis Rep. Jonathan Hecht Sen. Barbara L’Italien Rep. Kay Khan Sen. Joan B. Lovely Rep. Peter V. Kocot Sen. Michael O. Moore Rep. Elizabeth A. Malia Sen. James T. Welch Alternative Housing Voucher Program FY2016 Campaign Endorsers Aids Action Committee Berkshire County Housing Authority Berkshire Housing Development Corp. Boston Center for Independent Living Cape Organization for Rights of the Disabled (CORD) Center for Living and Working, Inc. Citizens’ Housing and Planning Association (CHAPA) City of Boston Mayor’s Commission for Persons with Disabilities Community Teamwork, Inc. (CTI) Disability Policy Consortium Franklin County Regional Housing & Redevelopment Authority HAPHousing Housing Assistance Corporation Massachusetts Association of Community Development Corporations (MACDC) Massachusetts Chapter of the National Association of Housing & Redevelopment (MassNAHRO.) Massachusetts Coalition for the Homeless Massachusetts Communities Action Network MassADAPT Metropolitan Boston Housing Partnership (MBHP) Metrowest Center for Independent Living Multicultural Independent Living Center of Boston Northeast Independent Living Program RCAP Solutions, Inc. Regional Housing Network of Massachusetts Somerville Homeless Coalition South Middlesex Opportunity Council (SMOC) South Shore Housing Development Corporation Stavros Vinfen .
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