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OCHA Regular Meeting

Orange County · Housing Authority Board
Thursday, May 15, 2025

Regular meeting Housing and affordability

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What was decided

  1. Approved Project Based Vouchers Approved
  2. Approved Administrative Plan Updates - Terminations Both approved
  3. Continued Administrative Plan Updates - Repayments and Overpayments No vote; held to the next meeting

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What's on this agenda

The Orange County Housing Authority advisory board voted on 15 May 2025 to add project-based vouchers to its administrative plan, and tightened two rules on when a household loses its voucher. Nobody from the public attended.

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Meeting recap

What happened, drawn from the records published after the meeting. Minutes

The housing director explained project-based vouchers as a way to establish a baseline of inventory for housing choice voucher holders. Two developers are working on project-based voucher projects in the county. Forty units would be covered by a new waiting list; the existing list will be used to fill ten units at the first project. The board approved adding the programme to the administrative plan.

On terminations, the board set a limit of two consecutive evictions before a household is removed from the programme, and a six-month wait before a terminated household may reapply. Both passed. A third item, on repayment of overpayments and fraud, drew questions about how overpayments are calculated and when the authority must terminate assistance; the board took no vote and carried it to the next meeting.

The board asked that the number of available vouchers be added to the expense report. Future items include appointing a vice chair, the outlook for HUD programmes, and the age profile of participants.

How the votes went

Three votes, all approved: project-based vouchers in the administrative plan, termination after two consecutive evictions, and a six-month wait to reapply. The repayment item was held over without a vote.

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Who spoke

No members of the public spoke.

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Agenda items (7)

Procedural · 3Discussion item · 3Staff or committee report · 1
  1. Call to Order and Updates from Members
    Procedural
  2. Public Comment
    Procedural
    No public attended
  3. Project Based Vouchers
    Discussion item Housing and affordability
    Adding project-based vouchers to the administrative plan. Two developers have projects underway; a new waiting list would cover forty units, with the existing list used for the first ten.
    Approved
  4. Administrative Plan Updates - Terminations
    Discussion item Housing and affordability
    Two consecutive evictions end a household's participation, and a terminated household waits six months before reapplying.
    Both approved
  5. Administrative Plan Updates - Repayments and Overpayments
    Discussion item Housing and affordability
    Questions on how overpayments are calculated, whether unreported fraud is handled differently, and when the authority must terminate for failure to repay.
    No vote; held to the next meeting
  6. Program Manager's Report
    Staff or committee report Housing and affordability
    Utilization, voucher issuance, terminations and informal hearings. The board asked for the number of available vouchers to be shown on the expense report.
  7. Adjournment
    Procedural

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