HUD is inviting a second round of public housing agencies to join the Department’s expanding Moving to Work (MTW) demonstration program. MTW allows public housing agencies (PHAs) to practice greater program flexibility and encourages housing choice and self-sufficiency among low-income families. Currently, there are 39 MTW PHAs throughout the nation. In 2015, Congress allowed HUD to expand the MTW demonstration program to 100 additional PHAs over a seven-year period. Like a similar invitation for the first cohort of PHAs in October 2018, HUD will choose a second cohort of MTW agencies through a two-step selection process.
The first round is open to PHAs administer 1,000 or fewer HCVs and public housing units combined. Applications. Letters of interest for cohort one must be submitted by May 13, 2019. The second cohort will consist of PHAs with 1,001 or more public housing and HCV units. Further, in order to ensure adequate sample size, the PHA must have 1,000 or more existing non-elderly, non-disabled public housing and/or HCV households. The second cohort will study different rent reform models that may or may not be income based, to include tiered rents, and/or stepped-up rents.
