Middletown Forum : SECTION 8 http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/ This is an XML content feed of; Middletown Forum : Community Revitalization : SECTION 8 Mon, 05 Oct 2026 18:54:54 +0000 Tue, 23 Sep 2014 17:48:34 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 10.12 360 www.middletownusa.com/forum/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=5768 Middletown Forum http://middletownusa.com/images/blog-logo.jpg http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/ SECTION 8 : Well there seems to be another... http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5768&PID=43767&title=section-8#43767 Author: over the hill
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Posted: Sep 23 2014 at 5:48pm

Well there seems to be another delay in the moving of the section 8 voucher program. Seems they have pushed it back to Nov 1 for the transfer. Wonder what that's all about? ]]> Tue, 23 Sep 2014 17:48:34 +0000 http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5768&PID=43767&title=section-8#43767 SECTION 8 : Middletown lost their control... http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5768&PID=43304&title=section-8#43304 Author: over the hill
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Posted: Jul 15 2014 at 4:19pm

Middletown lost their control of the program(big mistake). I agree with you VV but according to HUD they see the need. It probably did not help when Judy and Doug decided to declare Middletown 54% poverty level. But as we know that was about the money not about what was best for our city.]]> Tue, 15 Jul 2014 16:19:17 +0000 http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5768&PID=43304&title=section-8#43304 SECTION 8 : Well said Vet. I hope that you're... http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5768&PID=43303&title=section-8#43303 Author: processor
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Posted: Jul 15 2014 at 3:51pm

Well said Vet. I hope that you're right, but have little confidence in Butler and Warren counties admin. They are Hamilton and Lebanon centric and don't care about Middletown. My guess is that overtime Middletown will gain more subsidized housing.

AS Ms. Moon pointed out, with the program control being transferred, Middletown will have little to no say in the allocation of vouchers.]]> Tue, 15 Jul 2014 15:51:07 +0000 http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5768&PID=43303&title=section-8#43303 SECTION 8 : over the hill wrote:BMHA wil... http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5768&PID=43302&title=section-8#43302 Author: VietVet
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Posted: Jul 15 2014 at 2:24pm

Originally posted by over the hill over the hill wrote:

BMHA wil bring Middletown back in to compliance with 1312 vouchers from HUD and WCPH will have 350 vouchers in the city of Middletown but located in Warren County. This is the number 1662 that was in question all along with Middletown not being in compliance. The were so sure they did not have to fill those vouchers as they became available thru people leaving the program. They were wrong. If the powers that be knew half as much about the program as they thought they did, they could have saved themselves lots of money they spent on attorney fees and the possible ensuing law suits to come. IMO


I was hoping that, after the Section 8 administration was moved out of the city, the Butler County folks would correct the amount of vouchers that Middletown is SUPPOSE to have....that being around 700 or so. There needs to be a fair allocation of vouchers distributed in each community in Butler County depending on city population. It wouldn't hurt to see the communities that haven't received their fair share finally absorb the correct number into their community. There is no purpose in over-saturating this city while leaving other towns with less than their fair share. As a matter of fact, it helps weaken an already vulnerable city when they continue to deem Middletown the SW Ohio Mecca for Section 8. Let's spread the Section 8 out to dilute it's effect.

The past and present city leaders were ignorant to ask for more Section 8. That doesn't mean that we need to see the mistake continue with the mega-voucher numbers concentrated here. ]]> Tue, 15 Jul 2014 14:24:56 +0000 http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5768&PID=43302&title=section-8#43302 SECTION 8 : over the hill You are soooo rightCity... http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5768&PID=43301&title=section-8#43301 Author: Vivian Moon
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Posted: Jul 15 2014 at 1:16pm

over the hill
You are soooo right
City Hall huffed and puffed for 18 months, wasted time, a big bunch of money and gained nothing.
Before this is all over it will cost City Hall even more big bucks for yet another royal scew up.
]]> Tue, 15 Jul 2014 13:16:24 +0000 http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5768&PID=43301&title=section-8#43301 SECTION 8 : BMHA wil bring Middletown back... http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5768&PID=43300&title=section-8#43300 Author: over the hill
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Posted: Jul 15 2014 at 12:42pm

BMHA wil bring Middletown back in to compliance with 1312 vouchers from HUD and WCPH will have 350 vouchers in the city of Middletown but located in Warren County. This is the number 1662 that was in question all along with Middletown not being in compliance. The were so sure they did not have to fill those vouchers as they became available thru people leaving the program. They were wrong. If the powers that be knew half as much about the program as they thought they did, they could have saved themselves lots of money they spent on attorney fees and the possible ensuing law suits to come. IMO]]> Tue, 15 Jul 2014 12:42:20 +0000 http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5768&PID=43300&title=section-8#43300 SECTION 8 : MiddletownScouter When these... http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5768&PID=43299&title=section-8#43299 Author: Vivian Moon
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Posted: Jul 15 2014 at 11:54am

MiddletownScouter
When these 1662 vouchers are transfered to Warren and Butler counties Middletown will have NO OVERSIGHT OR CONTROL over the Section 8 Program...However I would doubt that Butler County would increase this number above the current 1662 vouchers that are now located in Middletown area..

]]> Tue, 15 Jul 2014 11:54:24 +0000 http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5768&PID=43299&title=section-8#43299 SECTION 8 : I've been trying to keep... http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5768&PID=43298&title=section-8#43298 Author: middletownscouter
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Posted: Jul 15 2014 at 10:38am

I've been trying to keep up with this whole debacle but the question I don't think I've found an answer to (and maybe I missed it), is whether this transfer means that the number of Section 8 vouchers in the city of Middletown will increase, decrease or maintain?]]> Tue, 15 Jul 2014 10:38:22 +0000 http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5768&PID=43298&title=section-8#43298 SECTION 8 : I do hate to tell you but this... http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5768&PID=43297&title=section-8#43297 Author: Vivian Moon
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Posted: Jul 14 2014 at 8:47pm

I do hate to tell you but this is just the beginning of the Middletown Section 8 Voucher Scandal.

This was a total failure of City Council and those at City Hall
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Posted: Jul 14 2014 at 5:44pm


Posted: 5:22 p.m. Monday, July 14, 2014



MIDDLETOWN

Council expected to vote Tuesday to move Section 8 to Butler, Warren

By Michael D. Pitman

Staff Writer
MIDDLETOWN —
Middletown City Council is expected to approve an agreement with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Tuesday and begin transferring the city’s 1,662 Section 8 housing vouchers to Butler and Warren counties.

The board of the Middletown Public Housing Agency, which is made up of all five City Council members, voted unanimously July 1 to accept a Voluntary Compliance Agreement and Memorandum of Understanding with HUD to shut down its city-run Section 8 housing program by Sept. 30. The agreement also stipulated the city would hand over all of its housing choice vouchers to the metropolitan housing authorities in Butler and Warren counties.

Butler County would receive 1,312 of the city’s vouchers and Warren County would receive the other 350 under the agreement. It was initially reported that any vouchers not assigned to a family (there are currently more than 300) would be sent to a public housing authority with a waiting list, but Middletown Law Director Les Landen said that is not the case.

Landen said once City Council approves the deal, he would “then anticipate it would be signed by HUD, the city and MPHA, and that agreement would be in place.

“And that would likely lead to a couple of agreements with Butler County and Warren County,” he said.

The pending agreement would end an 18-month dispute between Middletown and HUD over the city’s subsidized housing program.

HUD officials had maintained Middletown was out of compliance with the agency’s regulations by not having at least 95 percent of its available vouchers filled. The city had a compliance rate of only 82 percent, according to HUD.

City officials were adamant about their desire to reduce the amount of Section 8, or low-income housing, citing the fact that Middletown had more Section 8 housing per capita than any city in Ohio and almost double what the rest of Butler County has. Section 8 accounts for more than 14 percent of all available housing in the city and nearly 50 percent of all subsidized housing, according to 2013 data from the city.

The city pays out around $10 million a year in funds from HUD to hundreds of landlords who rent properties to voucher-holders. Middletown was one of two cities in Ohio that still managed its own public housing authority.

Butler Metro Housing Authority Executive Director Phyllis Hitte and Warren Metropolitan Housing Authority Executive Director Jacqueline Adkins are not commenting on ensuing transfer of vouchers until they receive an official notification from HUD. The spokesman for HUD’s regional office in Chicago, which covers Ohio, has not returned phone calls from the Journal-News seeking comment.
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