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Fall 2008

Summer 2007

Building and Sustaining Affordable Rentals

Multi-Family Affordable Rental

Mainstream Voucher Program –Mainstream Housing Vouchers provide rental assistance to persons with disabilities residing in the Thomas Jefferson Planning District. Funding for the program is provided by a December 1999 award to PHA from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) of $1.6 million to administer 75 Mainstream Housing Vouchers.

Affordable Rental Units
As part of PHA’s commitment to provide affordable housing options for the citizens of central Virginia, PHA has been involved in the development or management of over 265 affordable rental units, scattered over 10 different sites in Charlottesville and Nelson County. Four developments, accounting for 240 units, utilize Low-Income Housing Tax Credits.

Virnita Court Apartments – this is one of the first EarthCraft certified rehabilitation projects in Virginia. This 40 year-old building in the Rose Hill Neighborhood of Charlottesville has been an important home to many community members, and in particular teachers. Nine of the 16 units are for low, very low, and extremely low-income households, but four of those units completely wheelchair accesible. The other seven units are for folks above 60% AMI, which is the historic mix of the building.

Ryan School Apartments – Exemplifying the term adaptive reuse, this project, in partnership with the Jefferson Area Board for Aging, turned a former elementary school into 31 units of affordable housing for the elderly.

Friendship Ct – PHA has rehabilitated this 150 unit apartment complex, the largest PHA has worked with, which houses very low-income residents in the City of Charlottesville done in partnership with NHTE. Major renovations were performed while minimizing resident disruption.

Monticello Vista Apartments – PHA and Jordan Development Corporation received low-income housing tax credits for this 50 unit apartment building in the Belmont Neighborhood of Charlottesville nearly 15 years ago. It provides a mix of unit types for people with incomes under 60% AMI. Over the next two years, PHA and the community will be looking to refinance the subsidized rents for another 15 years.

PHS Apartments – PHA owns and manages 18 additional apartments scattered over 5 properties in Charlottesville with VHDA funding. The vast majority of the residents have incomes below 60% AMI.