To: MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL
From: JOHN LA ROCK, COMMUNITY SERVICES DIRECTOR
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APPROVE LICENSE AGREEMENT WITH HOUSING NETWORK, LLC D/B/A GOSECTION8.COM FOR A WEB-BASED RENT REASONABLE SYSTEM TO SUPPORT HOUSING AUTHORITY OPERATIONS IN THE AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $3,000 PER YEAR AND A FIVE-YEAR TOTAL OF $15,000 ALLOCATED FROM RESTRICTED SECTION 8 CARES ACT HOUSING ADMINISTRATION FUNDS FOR THE TERM OCTOBER 20, 2020 THROUGH JUNE 30, 2025
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
HUD regulations require Housing Authorities to ensure rents charged by owners to the Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) program participants are reasonable. Housing Authorities must compare the rent for a voucher unit to rents for similar unassisted units in the marketplace. Ensuring rent reasonableness is a required critical analysis for effective program operations. HUD has provided the Redondo Beach Housing Authority (RBHA) $242,925 in CARES Act administrative funding. This funding is restricted to the administrative expenses of the Housing Authority and its response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Specifically, expenditures that improve the administration of the program and increase the digitization of records, online services, and informational outreach by the RBHA are eligible expenses. The Section 8 HUD CARES Act administrative funding is not eligible for general City expenses or other special City programs in response to the pandemic.
The GoSection8 software streamlines the rent reasonable analysis by automatically integrating comparable data and generating HUD compliant rent reasonableness reports needed before executing a new housing contract, for each certification, and before approving any rent increase requested by a landlord. The GoSection8 software is successfully utilized by housing authorities including, but not limited to, Anaheim, Carlsbad, National City, Compton, Culver City, Hawthorne, Baldwin Park, Burbank, Calexico, Encinitas, Garden Grove, Glendale, Hawaiian Gardens, I...
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