Quick overviews:
What is a 1-Year Plan?
What is a 5-Year Plan?
Public Housing Glossary

Flowchart Used by the PHA for developing Public Housing Plans

How do you fit in? Well, HUD has established some guidelines detailing the Resident Association Board's role in establishing these plans:

(this is a large pdf* file!)

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Public Housing Plans

Heard us talking about the 5-year Plan and 1-year Plan? Here's where you'll learn what they're all about, and how they affect you.

Why Are The 5-Year and 1-Year Plans So Important? These plans give housing authorities power to set their own rules and to determine the future of public and Section 8 housing in your community. These plans will determine major areas of concern such as:

What your rent is.
Who gets public and Section 8 housing.
What types of improvements get made.
How the safety of public housing residents is addressed.

These plans also give residents the right to lots of information about your housing authority - perhaps more than you have ever had. For example, these plans must tell you:

Whether any public housing is targeted for demolition.
How many people are on the waiting list.
To what extent the housing authority is helping residents get jobs.
What kinds of training programs your housing authority offers.
What kinds of money your housing authority gets and how it spends it.

Finally, these plans give residents and community partners a point of accountability where the housing authority must be accountable to residents and the community. Use the plan to develop and advocate for strategies to:

Address the need for affordable and decent housing.
Provide jobs, services and training for residents.
Improve housing and neighborhood conditions.