Bill > A1000

Introduced Session

This bill makes a FY 2016 supplemental Grants-in-Aid appropriation from the State General Fund of $10,500,000 to the Department of Community Affairs (DCA) for the State Rental Assistance Program (SRAP). Established by P.L.2004, c.140, SRAP is patterned after the federal Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program for low-income individuals and households. The FY 2016 appropriations act provided $18,500,000 for SRAP. The SRAP offers tenant-based rental assistance grants and project-based rental assistance. Tenant-based rental assistance grants are awarded through a lottery-type process open only to applicants on the department's existing Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program waiting list. Project-based rental assistance allocates payments to new or rehabilitated housing units for 15 years, and paid when qualified tenants occupy those units. Program regulations also reserve 35% of the rental assistance for persons currently on the SRAP waiting list. The amount of this supplemental appropriation, $10,500,000, represents funding for 1,000 additional vouchers to be issued through SRAP in FY 2016.

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Jerry Green (D)*,  Mila Jasey (D)*,  Raj Mukherji (D)*,  Sheila Oliver (D)*,  Vincent Prieto (D)*,  Annette Quijano (D)*,  L. Grace Spencer (D)*,  Craig Coughlin (D),  Reed Gusciora (D),  Gabriela Mosquera (D), 

Received in the Senate, Referred to Senate Community and Urban Affairs Committee (on 04/21/2016)

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