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

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Administrative Plan 7/1/2025 Page 16-47 Prior to terminating any HAP contracts, SAHA will inform the local HUD field office. SAHA will terminate the minimum number needed in order to reduce HAP costs to a level within SAHA’s annual budget authority. If SAHA must terminate HAP contracts due to insufficient funding, SAHA will do so in accordance with the following criteria and instructions: The following program-type priority order will first be applied: 1. Housing Choice Voucher (HCV), including Non-Elderly Disabled 2. Special Purpose Vouchers (FYI and VASH) Tenant-Based 3. Project-Based Vouchers including Special Purpose Vouchers For each program type the following order will then be followed: 1. SAHA will stop selection from the waiting list (or referral list), discontinue the issuance of initial vouchers, and put previously issued initial vouchers on hold until funding is available. 2. Families who have been assisted in the program the longest will be the first to be terminated, excluding elderly or disabled families, and families with minor children and disabled dependent. 3. SAHA will terminate participants based on highest income (lowest housing assistance needed), excluding elderly and disabled families and families with minor children and disabled dependent. 4. SAHA will terminate remaining participants based on highest income (lowest housing assistance needed), including families with minor children and disabled dependent, disabled, and then elderly families (in that order). When SAHA resumes issuing vouchers, SAHA will issue vouchers first to the special purpose voucher families on its waiting list until it has reached the required number of special purpose vouchers, when applicable. Due to contractual obligations, Project-Based Vouchers will be the last to be terminated due to insufficient funds. EXHIBIT 1