RECOMMENDATION TO COUNCIL
Staff recommends that the City Council, acting as the Board of Directors for the Roseville Housing Authority adopt the attached resolution, which approves the attached Roseville Housing Authority 5-Year Plan for FY2020-21 and authorizes the Executive Director to submit the Roseville Housing Authority 5-Year Plan for FY2020-21 to the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development.
| BACKGROUND
The Roseville Housing Authority (RHA) provides up to 702 households with Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) rental assistance funded through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). These 702 vouchers include vouchers specifically for non-elderly disabled (NED) households, veteran households under the Veterans’ Affairs Supportive Housing (VASH) Program, and households with persons with disabilities who are transitioning out of institutional and other segregated settings, homeless, or at risk of becoming homeless under the Mainstream Program. The HCV rental assistance program works to ensure that very low and extremely low-income households are able to afford rent and live in safe, decent housing.
Pursuant to the 1998 Quality Housing and Work Responsibility Act (QHWRA), all housing authorities must submit a 5-Year Plan every five years and an Annual Plan each year between 5-Year Plans. HUD designed the Agency Plan to reflect the current and future goals of all housing authorities. To serve the needs of very low and extremely low- income families for the next five years, the goals of RHA are as follows:
1. Continue to expand the supply of assisted housing;
2. Improve the quality of assisted housing;
3. Increase assisted housing choices;
4. Affirmatively further Fair Housing; and
5. Collaborate with neighboring housing authorities to optimize administration of the HCV Program.
The draft 5-Year Plan is required to have a 45-day local comment period before RHA has a public hearing to adopt the 5-Year Plan. The 45-day comment period was noticed and commenced on February 28, 2020, closing May 6, 2020. To date, staff has not received any comments from the public regarding this item. Housing Authority staff provided RHA’s Resident Advisory Board (RAB) members with a copy of the draft 5-Year Plan for review and comment. If staff receives comments from the RAB, which are due by May 6, 2020, their comments will be included as an attachment to the final 5-Year Plan. The RAB members have reviewed the previous four Annual Plan submissions to HUD and have supported RHA’s goals and its progress in meeting them.
Subject to the City Council’s action on the proposed 5-Year Plan, as the Housing Authority Board, housing staff anticipates submitting the final document to HUD on May 7, 2020.
| FISCAL IMPACT
This action will not have any fiscal impact to the General Fund.
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ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW
The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) does not apply to activities that will not result in a direct or reasonably foreseeable indirect physical change in the environment, or is otherwise not considered a project as defined by CEQA Statute §21065 and CEQA State Guidelines §15060(c)(3) and §15378. The Roseville Housing Authority 5 Year Plan meets the above criteria and is not subject to CEQA. No additional environmental review is required.
| Respectfully Submitted,
Suzanne Acrell, Housing Analyst
Laura Matteoli, Economic Development Director | | | 
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Dominick Casey, City Manager
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