LHC IS NO LONGER ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR THE EMERGENCY HOUSING VOUCHER PROGRAM.
Emergency Housing Vouchers (EHVs) are a new kind of permanent housing voucher created by the American Rescue Plan (ARP) Act. EHVs are similar to Section 8 tenant-based vouchers: participants can choose where they live, the voucher travels with the participant, participants only pay a portion of the rent, and the voucher is of unlimited duration. EHVs differ from Section 8 tenant-based vouchers in two critical ways. They can only house people experiencing homelessness (literal homelessness, fleeing domestic violence, or at risk of homelessness) OR who were recently experiencing homelessness and for whom the EHV would prevent a return to homelessness or a high risk of housing instability.
HUD announced the EHV program and released its operating requirements on May 5, 2021. By June 10, 2021, HUD had released PHAs’ final EHV allocations. Louisiana as a whole received more than 600 EHVs; the LA BOSCOC expects to receive more than 100, about half of them in its Baton Rouge Region.
