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NEWPORT NEWS REDEVELOPMENT AND HOUSING AUTHORITY
MEMORANDUM
DATE: December 9, 2025
TO: Board of Commissioners
FROM: Lysandra M. Shaw,
Executive Director
SUBJECT: Utility Allowances
The Authority contracted with Management Resource Group, Inc. to review and
update utility allowances for the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher (HCV)
Program and for each NNRHA Public Housing complex. This study establishes,
by complex and unit size, an estimate of reasonable utilities consumption evels
by an energy conserving household of modest circumstances.
HUD regulations require a revision of allowances for a utility category rate
change by 10% or more since the last review. The utility that changed by 10% or
more was Electric.
lam recommending we adopt the attached rate schedules to better reflect actual
utility costs to the Authority and to our public housing and Housing Choice
Voucher clients.
Some public housing complexes have Authority paid utilities and others require
tenant paid utilities. In complexes where we have individual meters, tenants pay
their utility bill directly to the utility company. These complexes are Aqueduct
and Marshall Courts. We have moved toward tenant paid utilities whenever
possible because it reduces tenant accounts receivables and better promotes
energy conservation. The mid-rise senior properties are master metered and
have Authority paid utilities. Brighton, Oyster Point, Cypress Terrace, Orcutt Ill,
Orcutt |and Lassiter Courts have converted to RAD.
Copies of the proposed public housing utility allowance schedule by complex
were delivered to all public housing residents and posted in management offices
for the review of all effected residents on October 29, 2025. This information was
also posted on the website.
Attached are the proposed utility allowance schedules for each public housing
complex and for the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program. Utility
allowances for the Section 8 HCV Program include single family units, mobile
homes, duplexes/townhouses and garden/high-rise apartments.Jump to an indexed page (66 of 66)