HUD AWARDS MORE TENANT PROTECTION VOUCHERS TO EVERETT HOUSING AUTHORITIES TO SUPPORT ITS EFFORTS TO REVITALIZE BAKER HEIGHTS COMMUNITY
HUD vouchers Insures that all 344 eligible households dislocated by Baker Heights demolition will have continued access to affordable housing

SEATTLE - The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development today announced the award of 34 Section 8 Tenant Protection Vouchers valued at $400,561 to the Everett, Washington Housing Authority to insure that income-eligible residents of the Baker Heights housing complex scheduled for demolition continue to have access to affordable housing.

HUD Tenant Protection Vouchers assist residents of public housing authorities with relocation or replacement housing needs that result from the demolition, disposition, or mandatory conversion of public housing units. They also assist households living in privately-owned, HUD-assisted projects for which the owner is opting out of HUD's project-based rental assistance program or privately-owned assisted properties for which the owner is prepaying the mortgage.

"The Everett Housing Authority has embarked on a major project that will transform the Baker Heights neighborhood and will significantly upgrade the quality of assisted, affordable housing in the city," said HUD Northwest Regional Administrator Jeff McMorris. "The assistance we're announcing today will insure that current residents of Baker Heights, whose lives may be disrupted by the project, will continue to have access to the affordable housing for which they are eligible."

Baker Heights is a 244-unit public housing complex in the Delta neighborhood of Everett. It was built during World War II as barracks for workers in war-time industries. The Authority is currently in the process of relocating families in advance of demolition. Construction of some 200 assisted units of replacement housing on the site is expected to begin in 2020. HUD previously awarded 60 Tenant Protection Vouchers to the Everett Authority in August 2017 and 150 in December, 2017.

Only households whose gross incomes are at or below the low or very Federal low-income level Everett area are eligible to receive Tenant Protection rental vouchers. They are expected to pay rent equivalent to 30 percent of their gross incomes with HUD providing a subsidy equivalent the difference between that amount and the rent amount established for the unit. Landlords or owners who rent units to households with HUD vouchers must sign a contract with HUD and their units must meet HUD's Housing Quality Standards.

Today's award was part of a HUD announcement of the award of a total of 878 Tenant Protection Vouchers to public housing projects in Everett, Idaho Falls, Bakersfield, Birmingham, Boston, Oklahoma City, Panama City, San Francisco and Sarasota.

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