Important Notice MTW Application
Important Notice
The MTW Demonstration allows PHAs to design and test innovative, locally designed housing and self-sufficiency strategies for low-income families permitting PHAs to use assistance received under Section 8 and 9 of the United States Housing Act of 1937. The MTW demonstration program was enacted by Congress in 1996, under which a limited number of public housing authorities (PHAs) test ways to increase the cost-effectiveness of federal housing programs, increase housing choices for low-income families, and encourage greater economic self-sufficiency of assisted housing residents.
PIH Notice 2021-03 provides eligibility criteria and requests MTW Plan and application packages from PHAs seeking to join the fourth cohort of the MTW Expansion. OHA will have Resident/ Participant Meetings, Landlord Focus Group Meetings, utilize Public Comments to be considered for the MTW Final Plan, and host a Public Hearing for the MTW Cohort #4 Landlord Incentives Plan and Package.
OHA’s MTW Plan and Package will consists of the following Landlord Incentives: Monetary Incentives and Reimbursements, Education and Outreach, and the Investment in Technology to Attract, Recruit, and Retain Landlord Participation in the HCVP.
Public Notice MTW Cohort #4
Landlord Incentives
- The 2016 MTW Expansion Statute allows HUD to increase the size of the program from 39 agencies to 139 agencies. There will be 100 new PHAs that will be selected for the MTW expansion through the following methodology: 50 PHAs must have 1,000 or fewer public housing units or housing vouchers, 47 PHAs must have between 1,001-6,000 public housing units or housing vouchers, and only 3 PHAs have between 6,001-27,000 public housing units or housing vouchers.
- HUD will select PHAs for the fourth cohort of the MTW Expansion using a lottery, thereby establishing two groups: a “treatment group” of PHAs that join the fourth cohort of the MTW Expansion and a “control group” of PHAs that do not join the fourth cohort of the MTW Expansion.
- An independent research team will compare outcomes for the PHAs that were selected to join the fourth cohort of the MTW Expansion and the PHAs that do not join the fourth cohort of the MTW Expansion.
Dothan Housing
602 South Lena Street
Dothan, AL 36301
