Section 8 | Housing Choice Voucher & Leased Housing
VisualHOMES Section 8 and Leased Housing module gives you the powerful, comprehensive functionality you need to successfully manage the Housing Choice Voucher Program and other Leased Housing programs. Comprehensive tenant, owner and agent management features, including integrated accounting for owner and tenant payments, streamline your daily processing needs. It also allows for quick access to complete historical and transactional data with a simple mouse click.
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Highlights
Flexibility
Supports various Subsidies and State Programs, including Project-based Vouchers, Mod Rehab, Welfare to Work, Shelter Plus Care, HOPWA, Leased Housing and others
Quick Data Entry
Easy-to-use, tab-based screens with drill-down and shortcut buttons allow quick data entry, express navigation and centralized access to all relevant information from the tenant, owner and unit records
Step-by-step
“Wizards” walk user step-by-step through key processes, including Move-ins, Move-outs, Recertifications, and the Month-end process
Case Management
Detailed Case Management tracking, including FSS, Individual Training and Services Plan (ITSP), and HOPE VI
Voucher Tracking
Voucher Management and Status tracking
SEMAP
Automatically generate and track SEMAP performance indicators and generate SEMAP reports
Other Features Include:
- Supports Homeownership
- Portability, including Port-ins and Port-outs, and the ability to automatically generate HUD Form 52665 at the click of a button
- 50058 pre-validation alerts users to potential errors prior to generating the actual 50058, allowing corrections to be made in real-time, thereby preventing 50058 errors from being created
- Ability to store 50058’s with multiple dates and easily view 50058’s by action type, date and user, at the Tenant and Agency-levels
- Comprehensive, color-coded 50058 submission generation and management console, including historical 50058’s that can be reprinted at any time
- Automated scheduling of Inspections and Re-exams by last Inspection or Re-exam date, with optimized assignments by Inspector calendars and schedules, Census Tract, Agency-defined Zones, etc.
- Easily setup and maintain Agency-defined Inspection Violation Codes
- Inspection forms and results are historically stored and can be viewed and printed anytime in the future
- Ability to setup Staff calendar and schedule for optimized Appointment Scheduling
- Family Language indicator
- System automatically calculates HAP and UAP prorations based upon retro Move-ins, Move-outs and Recertifications
- Ability to print checks to an Owner immediately, eliminating the need to wait until the Month-end process
- Immediate Pay Cycle supports mid-month check processing
- Easily find a Family Member’s unit without knowing the Head of Household’s name
- Transactions can be easily transferred to the General Ledger for authorized posting
- Extensive FSS tracking, including case management, needs and goals, payments, escrow, and interest
- UAP and HAP can be withheld separately from one another
- Tenant Correspondence can be sent to an address other than the Unit’s address
- Checks and Transactions detail for Owners, Agents and Tenants are easily available at the click of a button, including history
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- Month-end processing can be performed while users are logged in the system
- Historical Lease information is readily accessible at the tenant and unit levels
- Ability to setup Installment Plans and Repayment Agreements, with recurring and non-recurring charges
- Supports payments to Owners and Agents via Direct Deposit (ACH) and Laser Checks on pre-printed and blank check stock (MICR)
- Positive Pay allows additional bank verification
- 1099’s for Owners and Vendors can be automatically generated
- File Status provides real-time visibility into the status of a tenant’s case file, detailing open and closed tasks and processes, incomplete and completed checklists, etc.
- Built-in Online Help
- Notes available at multiple levels for open-ended tracking
- Built-in Audit Trail tracks all system and user activity, including user login, before and after values of transactions, and dates and times of transactions
- Letters generated via turnkey mail-merge with Microsoft® Word are easy for the Agency to customize, including the ability to create standard document “packages”
- Extensive “canned” reports, with powerful filter and selection criterion allow users to easily generate tailored reports without “customizing”, including the ability to “go back in time” and generate reports for past periods
- Ability to easily Export reports to various file formats, including MS Excel, MS Word, and even XML
- Easily generate Custom Reports via integrated Report Writer
- Flexibility to create User Defined Fields
- Quick Search bar at top of screens allows simplified, direct access to a key record based on names and numbers, including Applicant, Tenant, Member, Owner, Unit, etc.
- Powerful lists with drill-down and search capabilities can be easily tailored to each users’ needs based on built-in filters with sorting by key fields and order preferences, including the ability to setup pre-defined defaults for each user, giving each user their preferred, “customized” view of data
- Available Handheld module for real-time, mobile Inspections
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