CLPHA and MTW Collaborative Member Survey: HUD Direct Rental Assistance Pilot

HUD released a Request for Information on a Direct Rental Assistance Pilot. Please provide us your feedback to inform our comments on the design of a pilot program. All comments are due to HUD by August 30, 2024.
1.What is the name of your Public Housing Authority?
2.MTW Agency?
3.What is your email address?
4.What policies or procedures should be in place to ensure that direct rental assistance payments are used by recipients only for rental housing costs, if any? Would there be an additional administrative burden for housing authorities to enforce these policies?
5.How do you expect the behaviors or engagement of housing providers, tenants or other stakeholders to respond to direct rental assistance? (What type of reception do you expect?)
6.How should direct rental assistance subsidies be calculated?
7.How could a direct rental assistance program ensure that recipients have decent, safe, and sanitary housing, without creating a burden on landlords that might deter them from accepting tenants with the direct rental assistance subsidy?
8.What aspects of existing rental assistance programs should be preserved in a direct rental assistance pilot or demonstration?
9.What should be the delivery mechanism for direct rental assistance payments?
10.Additional Feedback/Comments on Direct Rental Assistance