HUD announces $15M for NJ toward protecting families in COVID-19 times

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On Tuesday, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson announced $380 million in supplemental administrative fee funding to all Public Housing Authorities (PHA) nationwide, including Moving to Work (MTW) PHAs.

New Jersey will see over $15 million of those funds.

The two months of additional funding may be used for traditional administrative fees as well as for new costs related to protecting assisted families and employees throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. The funding is made available by the CARES Act legislation President Donald Trump signed into law on March 27.

“We must do everything in our power to protect all American families from this invisible enemy, including our vulnerable residents in the Housing Choice Voucher Program,” said Carson. “These new flexibilities and additional funds will properly equip Public Housing Authorities across the country with the resources they need to combat this virus.”

After Trump signed the CARES Act into law, HUD acted immediately to allocate its first wave of funding, more than $3 billion to assist communities and nonprofits, help protect the homeless and Americans with compromised immune systems, and assist Tribal communities in their COVID-19 response efforts. Last week, HUD announced an additional $685 million for PHAs to prepare for, prevent, and respond to a COVID-19 outbreak for the public housing program.

The Housing Choice Voucher Program (HCV) includes the Mainstream Program, which provides tenant-based vouchers that serve households that include a non-elderly person with a disability and serves over 2.4 million families.

The new eligible COVID-19-related activities include, but are not limited to: Procuring cleaning supplies and/or services to maintain safe and sanitary HCV units; 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 COVID-19; costs to retain or increase owner participation in the HCV Program, such as incentive or retention costs; and costs for providing childcare for the children of PHA staff that would not have otherwise been incurred.

New Jersey allocations are as follows:

• Newark Housing Authority, Newark: $1,125,872
• Elizabeth Housing Authority, Elizabeth: $208,032
• North Bergen Housing Authority, North Bergen: $65,000
• Perth Amboy Housing Authority, Perth Amboy: $272,570
• Asbury Park Housing Authority, Asbury Park: $63,846
• Long Branch Housing Authority, Long Branch: $157,012
• Housing Authority City of Jersey City, Jersey City: $737,942
• Housing Authority of the City of Camden, Camden: $260,834
• Housing Authority of the Borough of Lodi, Lodi: $103,580
• Bayonne Housing Authority, Bayonne: $46,024
• Housing Authority of the City of Passaic, Passaic: $378,420
• Housing Authority and Urban Redevelopment Age, Atlantic City: $145,582
• Hoboken Housing Authority, Hoboken: $30,160
• Paterson Housing Authority, Paterson: $545,060
• New Brunswick Housing Authority, New Brunswick: $173,844
• Morristown Housing Authority, Morristown: $34,732
• Housing Authority of the City of Orange, Orange: $125,602
• Union City Housing Authority, Union City: $117,196
• West New York Housing Authority, West New York: $84,790
• Rahway Housing Authority, Rahway: $43,942
• Woodbridge Housing Authority, Woodbridge: $172,602
• South Amboy Housing Authority, South Amboy: $23,824
• Guttenberg Housing Authority, Guttenberg: $32,958
• Irvington Housing Authority, Irvington: $50,770
• Plainfield Housing Authority, Plainfield: $150,944
• Franklin Housing Authority, Somerset: $45,608
• Edison Housing Authority, Edison: $63,086
• Highland Park Housing Authority, Highland Park: $32,312
• Red Bank Housing Authority, Red Bank: $45,302
• Carteret Housing Authority, Carteret: $111,552
• Neptune Housing Authority, Neptune: $49,500
• Bridgeton Housing Authority, Bridgeton: $29,870
• East Orange Housing Authority, East Orange: $291,682
• Glassboro Housing Authority, Glassboro: $47,486
• Boonton Housing Authority, Boonton: $32,348
• Housing Authority of the Township of Lakewood, Lakewood: $239,566
• Englewood Housing Authority, Englewood: $156,592
• Berkeley Housing Authority, Bayville: $20,530
• Salem Housing Authority, Salem: $5,066
• Pleasantville Housing Authority, Pleasantville: $79,788
• Keansburg Housing Authority, Keansburg: $52,536
• Millville Housing Authority, Millville: $30,932
• Vineland Housing Authority, Vineland: $99,758
• Brick Housing Authority, Brick Town: $85,984
• Housing Authority City of Linden, Linden: $71,402