7004-9030: Increase total funding for AHVP to $30M

Champions: Rep. Decker, Rep. Consalvo, and Sen. Eldridge  

People with disabilities are more than twice as likely to be homeless than their nondisabled peers. The Alternative Housing Voucher Program (AHVP) provides mobile housing vouchers to low-income individuals with disabilities between the ages of 18 and 60. Last year, the phrase “Prior Appropriations Continued” was vetoed from this line item, which meant a significant loss in money available to the program. This year, EOHLC expects to spend all of its money, and requires an increase simply to maintain the vouchers that have already been issued. In a time of widely-recognized housing emergency, we need a large enough increase to grow, rather than simply maintain, this vital housing support.