Item HA 03 - Update to the Housing Choice Voucher Administrative Plan

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Administrative Plan 7/1/2025 Page 16-8 SAHA Policy SAHA will review the appropriateness of the payment standards on an annual basis when the new FMR is published, and at other times as determined necessary. In addition to ensuring the payment standards are always within the “basic range,” SAHA will consider the following factors when determining whether an adjustment should be made to the payment standard schedule: Funding Availability: SAHA will review projected HAP expenditures to determine the impact projected subsidy adjustments will have on funding available for the program and the number of families served. SAHA will compare the number of families who could be served under revised payment standard amounts with the number assisted under current payment standard amounts. Rent Burden of Participating Families: Rent burden will be determined by identifying the percentage of families, for each unit size, that are paying more than 30 percent of their monthly adjusted income as the family share. When 40 percent or more of families, for any given unit size, are paying more than 30 percent of adjusted monthly income as the family share, SAHA will consider increasing the payment standard. In evaluating rent burdens, SAHA will not include families renting a larger unit than their family unit size. Quality of Units Selected: SAHA may review the quality of units selected by participant families when making the determination of the percent of income families are paying for housing, to ensure that payment standard increases are only made when needed to reach the mid-range of the market. Changes in Rent to Owner: SAHA may review a sample of the units to determine how often owners are increasing or decreasing rents and the average percent of increases and decreases by bedroom size. Unit Availability: SAHA may review the availability of units for each unit size, particularly in areas with low concentrations of poor and minority families. Lease-up Time and Success Rate: SAHA may consider the percentage of families that are unable to locate suitable housing before the voucher expires and whether families are leaving the jurisdiction to find affordable housing. Effective dates of changes to payment standard amounts will be determined at the time of update. SAHA will always ensure the payment standards will be within the basic range. SAHA will post its payment standards schedule on SAHA’s website and include a copy in the voucher briefing materials. EXHIBIT 1