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How many applications for Section 8 did Birmingham Public Housing Authority anticipate they would hand out today?

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How many applications for Section 8 did Birmingham Public Housing Authority anticipate they would hand out today?

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Birmingham’s public housing agency is projecting a $9.1 million deficit next year in its public housing and Section 8 rental programs. High vacancies because of lead-based paint in several communities and the slow return to the market of those units and others being renovated or rebuilt are blamed for the big deficit. Birmingham Housing Authority records show only 54 percent of its 5,500 Birmingham public housing units are occupied. About 800 of those apartments exist only on paper because their communities are awaiting rebuilding under the federal Hope VI program. Five communities have less than 40 percent of their apartments occupied. Additionally, leasing office space in downtown’s A.G. Gaston building is costing the Section 8 program thousands each month. Individual housing communities and the Section 8 program also now pay fees to the Housing Authority Central Office under an arrangement similar to that of a private property management company. Authority Executive Director Ralph R

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The Birmingham Housing Authority on Monday will host an open enrollment for a Section 8 housing waiting list. Almost 98 percent of those on a list of 4,600 families taken during the last open enrollment have been housed, said Larry Davis, interim director of Birmingham’s Section 8 program. “Our goal is to have it up to 100 percent in the next 30 to 60 days,” Davis said. From 9 a.m. until 4 p.m., applications can be picked up at the Southtown, Smithfield, or North Birmingham housing communities or downloaded from the housing authority at www.habd.org. The applications are to be mailed to the housing authority. The first 2,500 whose applications are received will be placed on the waiting list. Monday’s open enrollment is the first time applications for Section 8 housing have been received by Birmingham since February 2008 and is only the second open enrollment in five years, Davis said. The housing authority, he said, is still trying to ho

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The line for Section 8 housing applications stretched this mornng more than three blocks from the door of the Smithfield public housing office in Birmingham, Alabama, as hundreds showed up for the program’s first open enrollment of 2009. Birmingham Public Housing officials said they are expecting 8,000 people to pick up applications today in Smithfield, Southtown and North Birmingham Homes public housing communities. Applications also are available on-line. Last year, the authority handed out 4,000 applications during open enrollment, said Sandra Collier-McQueen, leasing manager for the Birmingham Housing Authority. The numbers are up because of the downturn in the economy, she said. Sources: http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2009/06/thousands_line_up_in_birmingha.

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