Family Self-Sufficiency Program

Family Self Sufficiency is a work incentive program for our Section 8 clients, to assist them in attaining life sustaining employment, with a goal of leaving assistance and achieving home ownership. Through their employment efforts, clients can amass an “escrow account” that becomes a nest egg to help them establish themselves when they successfully complete the program and leave assistance.

FSS Statistics of Note as of December 2006

• 27 families are currently enrolled in FSS
• 20 current FSS participants have escrow accounts with a combined value of $54,153
• 191 families have left participation in the FSS program since inception in 1993
• $209,407 in Escrow has been paid out to graduating FSS participants
• 4 FSS participants have won $500 OHAC scholarships
• 61 families have successfully completed their FSS Contract of Participation
• 5 participants are currently enrolled in GED, college, or vocational training programs
• 46 FSS families have completed their FSS Contracts of Participation since October 21st, 1998 which reduces TMHA’s required FSS program size from 76 participants to 30 participants according to the requirements of the 1998 QHWRA legislation.
• 18 participants are currently working in paid employment

Homeownership Voucher Program

Homeownership assistance offers a new option for qualified families in the Section 8 tenant-based Housing Choice Voucher Program. In 2006, TMHA assisted its first family to purchase a home through this program.

The Homeownership Voucher works very much like the Section 8 Rental Voucher where the housing authority assists the eligible client with their housing costs. However, instead of TMHA’s assistance payment going to a landlord, it will go directly to a lender to assist a client in paying on their own home mortgage. Families must complete homeownership counseling sessions at TMHA prior to the purchase, and families are required to put at least a three percent downpayment on the property with at least one percent coming from their own resources. Families must also have the potential to obtain financing to complete the purchase. Non-Disabled families are also required to meet certain employment and income requirements prior to purchase



Clay Village Apartments

Tuscarawas MHA manages Clay Village Apartments in Uhrichsville. Clay is a 40-unit family complex owned by TMHA’s side-by-side non profit, Tuscarawas Affordable Housing Services Corp., and is subsidized through the USDA Rural Development 515 low interest mortgage program. Site Manager is Cindy Larson.

Clay Village was built in the mid ‘80's through the (then) Farmers Home Administration, now called Rural Development. The complex has 40 units - 16 1-BR and 24 2-BR units. Twenty-four of the units are subsidized by Rural Development, and rents are structured to be affordable to low income families.

Primary amenities at Clay Village include laundry facility, playground, excellent safety lighting, air conditioned units, ample parking, two completely handicapped accessible units, on-site maintenance person, country like setting, provided appliances on-site property manger, and close proximity to shopping.
 

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