City of Baltimore - File #: 05-0097R

• File #: 05-0097R
• Version: 0
• Name: Investigative Hearing - Public Housing - Moving to Work
• Type: City Council Resolution
• Status: Withdrawn
• File created: 10/17/2005
• In control: City Council
• Final action: 11/20/2006
• Title: Investigative Hearing - Public Housing - Moving to Work FOR the purpose of requesting the Baltimore City Housing Commissioner to address the City Council on the proposed changes to Baltimore City's public housing program as permitted by participation in Moving to Work, a federal pilot program that grants local officials more control over the allocation of expenditures previously earmarked for Section 8 vouchers and other specific public housing programs.
• Sponsors: Kenneth Harris, President Dixon, President Young, Robert Curran, Helen L. Holton, Keiffer Mitchell, Edward Reisinger, Mary Pat Clarke, James B. Kraft, Stephanie Rawlings Blake, Nicholas C. D'Adamo, Belinda Conaway, Agnes Welch, Paula Johnson Branch
• Indexes: Investigative Hearing, Resolution

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
11/20/2006	0	City Council	Withdrawn
10/20/2005	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
10/17/2005	0	City Council	Introduced
10/17/2005	0	City Council	Assigned

* WARNING: THIS IS AN UNOFFICIAL, INTRODUCTORY COPY OF THE BILL.
THE OFFICIAL COPY CONSIDERED BY THE CITY COUNCIL IS THE FIRST READER COPY.
INTRODUCTORY*

CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL R
(Resolution)

Introduced by: Councilmember Harris


A RESOLUTION ENTITLED

A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
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Investigative Hearing - Public Housing - Moving to Work

FOR the purpose of requesting the Baltimore City Housing Commissioner to address the City Council on the proposed changes to Baltimore City's public housing program as permitted by participation in Moving to Work, a federal pilot program that grants local officials more control over the allocation of expenditures previously earmarked for Section 8 vouchers and other specific public housing programs.
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Officials of the U.S. Department and Housing and Urban Development describe Moving to Work (MTW) as a demonstration program authorized under the Omnibus Consolidated Recessions and Appropriations Act of 1996 that offers public housing authorities the opportunity to design and test innovative, locally-designed housing and self-sufficiency strategies for low-income families by allowing exemptions from existing public housing and tenant-based Housing Choice Voucher rules and permitting the authorities to combine operating, capital, and tenant-based assistance funds into a single agency-wide funding source, as approved by the federal government.

The purposes of the Moving To Work program are to give public housing authorities and the federal government the flexibility to design and test various approaches for providing and administering housing assistance to a...