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

Ensuring Veteran Retention and Positive Attrition

7.  Ensuring Veteran Retention and Positive Attrition

"The first version of this document focuses mainly on activities that help streamline and expedite the HUD VASH leasing process. In future versions, an equal if not stronger focus should also be placed on retention and making sure that Veterans, if and when they exit the program, do so for positive reasons. We will not be able to realize our goal of ending Veterans homelessness by 2015 if the Veterans we serve do not achieve and sustain housing stability. Therefore, to expand this section, HUD will continue researching and soliciting contributions on retention and helping Veterans become more self sufficient. 

A preliminary practice that should be highlighted under this section is the linking of HUD VASH with HUD‟s Family Self- Sufficiency program."

REMARK:

I can't speak for everyone's experience with HUD VASH but this is not the experience I've encountered through the program. The 'Housing Specialist' have done everything conceivable, primarily being incompetent and indifference.  I could have never conceived the level of damage can or will be done under the guise of a program created to solve homelessness.  From both sides; HUD and VASH, there has been a willful intent to direct a process of attrition on veterans with the knowledge that there's thousand more dire idiots to utilize.

Landlords Benefitted Greatly while Veterans Return to Homelessness

While Veterans Struggle While Housed, Landlords Relish the Rewards by HUD-VASH Payments

Look up any brochure for the HUD-VASH program to house chronically homeless veterans and you'll see a slew of appeals to landlords to revile in this gold rush of dollars from the federal government.

Landlords, understandably are in it to make money and are not in it for altruistic reasons.  It's a goldmine and veterans are the conduit to cash for others while the veteran is overwhelmed by multiple unrealistic compliances to stay in the program.  A path that may have been wrought with overwhelming challenges such as mental, physical, financial, imprisonment, alcohol and drug abuse.

While landlords do nothing more or less as they would for anyone else including noncompliance for safety, care for the facility or basic needs regulated by law.  A veteran will be thrown out back onto the streets for the simplest infraction.  You are to walk a straight path despite all that would be in your way.  Budget cuts to the program place the Veteran, not the HUD-VASH program into legal and dismal actions because the despite pre arrangements of support can be dropped at a moments notice.

National Coalition for Homeless Veterans

National Coalition for Homeless Veterans: Webinar – Using SOAR to Access Social Security Disability Benefits
Thursday, April 21, 2016 at 2:00 pm EDT

The National Veterans Technical Assistance Center (NVTAC) hosted the webinar “Using SOAR to Access Social Security Disability Benefits” on Thursday, April 21 at 2:00 pm EST. Social Security disability benefits are critical sources of income for Veterans with disabling mental or physical health conditions, and lead to increased housing stability and improved healthcare outcomes. SSI/SSDI Outreach, Access and Recovery (SOAR), is a federal program sponsored by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) to increase access to disability benefits among people who are experiencing or at risk of homelessness. Since 2006, states report 27,226 approvals on initial SSI/SSDI applications, with an approval rate of 65 percent in an average of 81 days using the SOAR model. This presentation described best practices for utilizing SOAR with Veterans who access HVRP services, with special emphasis on employment and housing stability.

Jen Elder from the SAMHSA SOAR TA Center at Policy Research Associates, Inc. led the discussion.

Why so many Vets get Evicted from HUD Housing? | vnsla

Why so many Vets get Evicted from HUD Housing? | vnsla: by Terry Richards

Los Angeles County, CA alone in round numbers has about 11% of the Nation’s estimated 2011 count of 74,000 Homeless Veterans, so designating in round numbers 900 Vouchers (11.4%) is reasonable.

Congress also appropriated funds for Grant Per Diem (About $40 per day per Veteran) for Homeless Veterans Transitional Housing Programs at VA Domiciliaries and non-profit agencies like the Salvation Army’s Haven, New Directions, Vet-To- Vet, U.S. Vets, Cabrillo, and the Ballington Plaza, Weingart, and Rush Hotels/Motels (All three located in “skid-row”), and all which are located in Los Angeles County.

According to William L. Daniels, Chief of the Greater Los Angeles VA Healthcare system and its Homeless Programs, there are currently about 3,200 Homeless Veterans in these transitional housing programs/Grant Per Diems including the two aforementioned Domiciliaries. Since Veterans in these transitional programs are still technically homeless until they obtain permanent housing, that still leaves 10,000 Veterans who are homeless in Los Angeles, but because of the 3,200 in transitional housing only 6800 are living on the streets of Los Angeles assuming these figures are correct???

The Obama Administration has set its goal for zero (0) homeless Veterans by 2015 but in Los Angeles at least, even if the homeless population remains status quo and Vouchers were increased to 1,000 per fiscal year, it would still take 10-years or until 2022 to obtain Housing for the current homeless Veterans population of Los Angeles.

HUD-VASH Mythbusting, w/ Your Host, KAIT MILLER!

Published on Dec 18, 2013

Are you having HUD-VASH problems? Do you constantly find yourself rejecting veterans from the program who seem like they should be eligible? Myths about HUD-VASH afflict countless people throughout the United States...but you don't have to live with them anymore! In this 7 minute video, former HUD-VASH Housing Program Specialist Kait Miller will walk you through the five biggest myths about HUD-VASH to make sure you're not turning any vets away unnecessarily. It's easy, it's free, and it could change your life!

You've lived with your HUD-VASH problems for too long. Watch this free video today!