Benefits for Landlords

Benefits for Landlords (Taken fron US Department of Veterans Affairs)

• Guaranteed income: See reliable monthly rental payments through the local housing authority and fair market rent on your property.
• Having a say in security deposits: Set your own amount based on local standards.
• Annual property re-certification: Third-party inspections help to maintain quality.
• Benefit of VA services: Ongoing case management provides a safety net for tenants and lowers default risks.
• A chance to honor those who served: HUD-VASH landlords are part of the solution to ending homelessness among Veterans, who sacrificed so much to keep our country safe and free.

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This is the true benefactor of HUD-VASH program, LANDLORDS!!!  There is more outreach to bring in landlords with these overwhelming benefits.  The HUD-VASH benefits landlords greater than veterans just as stated above with very little oversight, on time delivery of payments, no immediacy to correct housing issues brought by the veteran and if so; there's a long if ever process of resolving the issues.

Veterans are constantly under the gun to comply to guidances designed to exit them from the program.  Landlords are not subjected to financial oversight and questioning of every penny found in their old jeans, substance abuse violations, consistent review of your viability as well as an indifference to you as a client.  There is nothing altruistic that landlords are doing to assist in housing veterans.  Through this program, landlords are doing better while doing the least as compared to the open market of renting properties. In the HUD manual, property owners are assured that VA caseworkers who are assigned to each veteran under the VASH program, will keep any veteran inline over any concern to the owner.

Veterans are conduits for the tax-payers money to flow fast and furious into the coffers of landlords while being penny-pinched from HUD-VASH and receiving little to no support from the VA or HUD in critical concerns for veterans health, finance, self-determination and ironically; the return to homelessness..

Abby Nixon