1. Louisiana Housing Authority

2. A key partner in ending homelessness
Louisiana Housing Authority
PSH portfolio
2,000 project-based vouchers
1,000 subsidies for CoC rental assistance
PRA subsidies
Collaborative Applicant for Louisiana’s Balance of State Continuum of Care
Chair of the Governor’s Council on Homelessness
Disaster coordinator for people experiencing homelessness

3. Actions to end homelessness
Preferences for people experiencing chronic homelessness, homelessness, and at risk
Serves as a state leader to end homelessness
Ma Maison
Homelessness Working Group
Statewide definition of housing first
Statewide guiding principles for coordinated entry

4. Actions to end homelessness
State disaster lead for people experiencing homelessness
Homeless Emergency Plan
Depopulating disaster shelters
Emergency Solutions Grant, HOME Tenant-Based Rental Assistance and Disaster Community Development Block Grant funds for hotels and rapid rehousing for people experiencing homelessness and at risk

5. Actions to end homelessness
Incentive points in Louisiana’s qualified allocation plan for low income housing tax credits for developers to set-aside units for people in need of permanent supportive housing
Result: Over 1,200 set-aside PSH units

7. Overview of LHA PSH Program
Creating 3,000 PSH units in the Gulf Opportunity (GO) Zone was a major objective in the state’s Road Home hurricane recovery plan.
PSH units are ‘scattered-site’ units leased using permanent rental subsidies dedicated to the PSH program.
2,000 Section 8 project-based vouchers (PBVs)
1,000 Continuum of Care Rental Assistance subsidies (CoC)
200 Section 811 Project Rental Assistance vouchers (PRA)

8. Louisiana PSH - Braided Funding Model
Rental Assistance
811 Project Rental Assistance (PRA)
Project-Based Vouchers (PBV)
Continuum of Care (CoC) PSH Rental Assistance
Capital
Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC)
Home Investment Partnership Program (HOME)
Housing Trust Fund (HTF)
Community Development Block Grant (CDBG)
Tenancy and Other Supports
Medicaid State Plan
Medicaid Waivers
Ryan White
Veteran’s Affairs
Community Development Block Grant (CDBG)

9. PBV
S.811 PRA
CoC PSH
CoC RRH
1. Who is eligible
Disabled, 50% AMI
Disabled, under 62, 30% AMI
HUD homeless category 1&4, disabled
HUD homeless definition in the year that we applied (category 1&4) - individuals and families
1.a Population priority
Exiting institutions, homeless, at risk of either, federal disaster preference
Exiting institutions, homeless,
at risk of either
Chronically homeless
25% disabled, can go higher
1.b. Geography
Statewide 1/1/18
Can be statewide, currently focused on north and central Louisiana
GO Zone coverage
(need to do some in BTR)
Balance of State Continuum of Care
2. Referral process
Using Yardi WL Traditional PSH referral process
Coordinated entry (across 5 CoCs)
Coordinated Entry
3. Program target number to be served
2,000
199
1,090 (UNITY = 887,
Start Southcentral= 63,
Start Northshore = 67,
Calcasieu Parish Police Jury = 50,
Catholic Services of Acadiana = 23)
56 households
4. Current number
served
1511 leased 1641 under contract
123 leased
1,070 5

10. Louisiana Housing Authority
Questions ??
Nicole Sweazy
Louisiana Housing Authority