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NEWPORT NEWS REDEVELOPMENT AND HOUSING AUTHORITY
MEMORANDUM
DATE: December 10, 2025
TO: Board of Commissioners
FROM: 鈥擾Lysandra M. Shaw ps
Executive Director
SUBJECT: Proposed Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher, Mainstream Voucher, and
Emergency Housing Voucher Budget
Attached for your review and approval is the proposed budget for our Section 8 Housing
Choice Voucher, Mainstream Voucher, and Emergency Housing Voucher programs.
This budget provides an annual Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) amount of
$31,872,107. These payments are made directly to Newport News landlords who lease
to eligible voucher holders. Our program will assist an average of 2,902 families per
month at an average HAP payment of $915.05 per unit per month, an increase of $77.05
from the average monthly payment budgeted in the current year.
We have not yet been notified of our Budget Authority for the year 2026; we estimate we
will receive funding at a 99.5 and 100 percent proration depending upon the program.
Our budget includes 54 vouchers to Veterans under the Veterans Affairs Supportive
Housing (VASH) program, 141 Mainstream Vouchers, and 30 Emergency Housing
Vouchers to assist low-income households that include persons with disabilities. The
budget also includes funding for the 247 CNI Tenant Protection Vouchers, 88 Marshall
Tenant Protection Vouchers and 88 vouchers for the Warwick Single Room Occupancy
(SRO) program, which assists formerly homeless individuals.
As you will note, while maintaining our program to serve the 2,902 families authorized by
HUD, we will need to access $1,811,952 of our Housing Assistance Payment reserves
which are currently being held by HUD. During this past year, HUD-held reserves have
increased due to increased funding and a slight decrease in leasing. Our leasing rate
has not been optimal primarily due to problems with fully staffing our agency. We are
encouraged by HUD to use these reserves to maximize leasing to families. HUD provides
an online forecasting tool that we use to assist us with planning and managing our
program under various funding models. We run scenarios monthly, based on current
leasing levels and project funding to determine voucher issuance levels. When HUD seesJump to an indexed page (66 of 66)