Documents
A document submitted by a landlord or property manager to the voucher administrator outlining the requested rent amount for a unit prior to final approval. It helps to determine whether the rent is reasonable and within program limits before a lease and contract are executed.
RFTA (Request for Tenancy Approval)
The annual process of recertifying a household's eligibility to remain subsidized. Includes verifying income, household composition, and any other required documents.
Annual Recertification Action
Federal, state, and local laws that prohibit discrimination in housing based on protected characteristics such as race, color, national origin, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, familial status, and disability. Under the federal Fair Housing Act it is illegal to refuse to rent, deny a housing opportunity, or impose different terms because of these characteristics.
Fair Housing Law
A department within the Colorado Department of Local Affairs that oversees state-administered housing programs, including voucher programs, supportive housing, and funding for housing development.
DOH (Division of Housing)
Verification of Disability
The responsibilities that landlords agree to when accepting tenants with vouchers. This includes compliance with fair housing laws, maintaining unit standards, and adhering to lease and program agreements.
Landlord Obligations
The process when a household exits a housing program. This may be due to noncompliance, failure to recertify, voluntary withdrawal, or transition to a new program.
EOP (End of Participation)
A rental housing unit priced below the market and intended to be affordable to households with low to moderate incomes.
Affordable Housing Unit
A regional or local planning body that coordinates housing and services funding for families and individuals experiencing homelessness. CoC's often manage coordinated entry systems and prioritize housing resources.
CoC (Continuum of Care)
Defined as an individual who lacks a fixed, regular, or adequate residence. This includes those living in places not meant for human habitation, such as on the streets, in tents, makeshift shelters, or vehicles.
Literal Homelessness
A document provided by the voucher administrator to the landlord, client, and supportive services team to inform them of their updated tenant rent portion and Housing Assistance Payment.
Rent Portion Letter
A feature of some tenant-based vouchers that allows a household to transfer their voucher to another jurisdiction, usually another city or state, where another PHA will administer it.
Port
The formal legal process through which a landlord removes a tenant from a rental unit.
Eviction
THe lead agency for the Metro Denver Continuum of Care, responsible for coordinating regional homeless response systems, managing coordinated entry, and administering federal and local housing resources.
MDHI (Metro Denver Homeless Initiative)
Name the subsidy types that have an AMI limit higher than 30%
16th St, DHAPBV, FUP, HCV, 811, and HCVPBV
A voucher status that indicates that a household has been issued a voucher but has not yet been leased up in a unit. During this period, the household actively searches for a rental unit that meets program requirements.
Searching Voucher
The process of documenting and responding to changes in household circumstances -- such as income, family size, or contract rent -- that occur outside of the annual recertification cycle.
Interim Action
A statistic published annually by HUD representing the midpoint of household incomes in a specific geographic area. This is used to determine eligibility and rent limits for affordable housing programs and vouchers, with income limits often expressed as percentages.
AMI (Area Median Income)
The federal agency that funds and regulates many housing programs, including Section 8 vouchers, Continuum of Care grants, and Housing First initiatives.
HUD (US Department of Housing and Urban Development)
Defined as a disabled individual who experienced 12 continuous months living in a place not meant for human habitation, or 4 episodes of homelessness in the last 3 years.
Chronic Homelessness
A legal, binding agreement that outlines the terms under which one party agrees to rent property owned by another party.
Lease Contract
The legal process of splitting a lease to remove a household member who has committed domestic violence, dating violence, or stalking -- while allowing the remaining eligible household members to retain their housing assistance.
Bifurcation
The process of using a voucher to subsidize a unit where the household already resides. This option helps to reduce displacement and fast tracks the leasing timeline, provided the current unit meets program and HQS requirements.
Lease Up In Place
A City of Denver department that manages and coordinates housing resources, homelessness services, and rental assistance programs aimed at increasing housing stability for residents experiencing or at risk of homelessness.
Department of Housing Stability
Bonus Question: Name the referral pathways in which someone can be pulled for an MDCHC subsidy
OneHome, Durkin or SHP4P.