Can someone older than 21 move into the Foyer?
AEOA has applied for different types of funding for the services, operating, and capital budgets. The operating budget provides a subsidy to help youth pay their rent. Renters pay 30% of their income for rent. One such subsidy for eight units in this project is Section 8. We are working with the Virginia Housing and Re-development Authority (HRA) to be able to provide this subsidy.It had been questioned if a 50-year old, for example, could live in the Foyer. By law, we would have to allow someone who is 50 to live there; however, we do not believe this will happen. From discussions with property managers in youth foyers that have used Section 8 in other parts of the state, they have not had this happen. When adults call in and find out that it is a youth project, with on-site services for youth, that services are required, that it is in the lease and we don’t have services for adults, they don’t want to live there. The Foyer would not be an appropriate place for them to live. Our messa
