HUD Awards $3.8 Million to Public Housing Authorities in Wisconsin to Help Keep Residents Housed

MADISON, Wisc. – The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Ben Carson announced $472 million nationally in CARES Act funding to help low-income families during the coronavirus pandemic, including $3.8 million to 52 public housing authorities (PHAs) throughout Wisconsin. This funding can be used by public housing authorities to help families assisted by Housing Choice Vouchers (HCV) and Mainstream vouchers prevent, prepare for and respond to the coronavirus. See the local impact of the housing assistance funding made available.

“This funding will provide additional resources to public housing authorities to make sure people have a decent, safe, and affordable place to call home,” said HUD Secretary Ben Carson. “HUD continues to work with our public housing authorities to protect American families from this invisible enemy, including vulnerable residents in the Housing Choice Voucher Program.”

“These new funds are important and will go a long way to help low-income residents secure and retain affordable housing during this unprecedented time,” said Hunter Kurtz, Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing.

“Public housing authorities have a vital role to play as we continue our COVID‑19 recovery efforts,” said Joseph P. Galvan, HUD Midwest Regional Administrator. “We will continue working diligently to overcome this as expeditiously as possible.”

The Housing Choice Voucher Program (HCV) includes the Mainstream Program that provides tenant-based vouchers serving low-income households.

The eligible coronavirus-related activities include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Procuring cleaning supplies and/or services to maintain safe and sanitary HCV units, including common areas of PHA-owned Project Based Voucher (PBV) projects.
• Relocation of participating families to health units or other designated units for testing, hospitalization, or quarantine, or transportation to these locations to limit the exposure that could be caused by using mass transportation.
• Additional costs to supportive services vendors incurred due to coronavirus.
• Costs to retain or increase owner participation in the HCV Program, such as incentive or retention costs (e.g. the PHA offers owner an incentive payment to participate in recognition of added difficulties of making units available for HCV families to rent while stay-at-home orders or social distancing practices are in effect).
• Costs for providing childcare for the children of PHA staff that would not have otherwise been incurred (e.g. children are at home due to school closings, PHA staff are working outside of regular work schedules, etc.).

For more information on HUD’s response to the novel coronavirus pandemic and the actions the Department has taken, please visit HUD.gov/coronavirus. Public housing authorities across the nation have jumped into action to help assist their tenants and their communities during this unprecedented time. Read more about their stories featured in HUD’s Neighbors Helping Neighbors campaign, here.

The following public housing authorities across Wisconsin received funding:

State	Public Housing Authority	City	Amount
WI	Antigo Housing Authority	Antigo	$            16,674
WI	City of Appleton Housing Authority	Appleton	$            79,525
WI	Ashland Housing Authority	Ashland	$              7,089
WI	Sauk County Housing Authority	Baraboo	$            23,488
WI	Barron County Housing Authority	Barron	$            21,269
WI	Beloit Housing Authority	Beloit	$            75,864
WI	Chippewa County Housing Authority	Chippewa	$            52,120
WI	Lafayette County Housing Authority	Darlington	$              4,331
WI	Dodgeville Housing Authority	Dodgeville	$              7,089
WI	Eau Claire County Housing Authority	Eau Claire	$            29,932
WI	Walworth County Housing Authority	Elkhorn	$            48,427
WI	Evansville Housing Authority	Evansville	$            10,921
WI	Fond du Lac County Housing Authority	Fond du Lac	$            55,610
WI	Brown County Housing Authority	Green Bay	$          369,269
WI	Sawyer County Housing Authority	Hayward	$            24,156
WI	Janesville Neighborhood Services	Janesville	$            73,970
WI	Dodge County Housing Authority	Juneau	$            16,147
WI	Kaukauna Housing Authority	Kaukauna	$              8,722
WI	Kenosha Housing Authority	Kenosha	$          171,887
WI	La Crosse Housing Authority	La Crosse	$            18,918
WI	Madison Community Development Authority	Madison	$          286,245
WI	Wisconsin Housing & Economic Development Authority	Madison	$          264,896
WI	Marinette County Housing Authority	Marinette	$            23,631
WI	Marshfield Community Development Authority	Marshfield	$              7,072
WI	Mauston Housing Authority	Mauston	$            10,809
WI	Ashland County Housing Authority	Mellen	$              6,564
WI	Dunn County Housing Authority	Menomonie	$              8,797
WI	Housing Authority of the City of Milwaukee	Milwaukee	$          825,982
WI	Milwaukee Co DHHS – Housing Division	Milwaukee	$          286,781
WI	Dane County Housing Authority	Monona	$          178,487
WI	New London Housing Authority	New London	$              8,141
WI	Housing Authority of the City of New Richmond	New Richmond	$              4,376
WI	Housing Authority of Winnebago County	Oshkosh	$            57,873
WI	Platteville Housing Authority	Platteville	$            12,865
WI	Housing Authority of Racine County	Racine	$          220,629
WI	Rhinelander Housing Authority	Rhinelander	$            10,371
WI	Richland County Housing Authority	Richland Center	$            17,723
WI	River Falls Housing Authority	River Falls	$            12,907
WI	Shawano Housing Authority	Shawano	$              5,251
WI	Sheboygan Housing Authority	Sheboygan	$            21,005
WI	Monroe County Housing Authority	Sparta	$            10,503
WI	Portage County Housing Authority	Stevens Point	$            26,880
WI	Door County Housing Authority	Sturgeon Bay	$            26,650
WI	Housing Authority of the City of Superior	Superior	$            23,142
WI	Tomah Public Housing Authority	Tomah	$            13,785
WI	Washburn Housing Authority	Washburn	$              7,484
WI	Waukesha Housing Authority	Waukesha	$          145,280
WI	Wausau Community Development Authority	Wausau	$            52,777
WI	CDA of the City of West Allis	West Allis	$            75,954
WI	West Bend Housing Authority	West Bend	$            27,777
WI	Trempealeau County Housing Authority	Whitehall	$            26,257
WI	Wisconsin Rapids Housing Authority	Wisconsin Rapids	$            21,885
Wisconsin Total			$ 3,844,187
National Total			$472,204,315

NOTE: This press release was submitted to Urban Milwaukee and was not written by an Urban Milwaukee writer. While it is believed to be reliable, Urban Milwaukee does not guarantee its accuracy or completeness.