Homeless Assistance Grants - HUD Exchange...Overview of Presentation • FY2011 Budget and Implications • Overview of the HEARTH Act • Subpart A – General Provisions • Subpart

Ann Marie OlivaBrett Gagnon

Office of Special Needs Assistance Programs

Homeless Assistance Grants:Overview of FY2011 Funding & HEARTH Update

Overview of Presentation

• FY2011 Budget and Implications

• Overview of the HEARTH Act

• Subpart A – General Provisions

• Subpart B – ESG

• Subpart C – CoC

• Subpart D – RHS

• FY2012 Budget and Implications

President’s FY2011 Budget

• The President’s Budget proposed $2.055 billion for HUD’sHomeless Assistance Grants

• The Budget included the following program prioritiesarticulated in the HEARTH Act:

• Funding for ESG at a higher level to allow communities tocontinue prevention and RRH projects

• Protecting renewals of existing programs that work

• Continuing with the important work of developingpermanent supportive housing

• Meeting the needs of rural communities

FY2011 Budget Enacted

Program Amount Available

Total Appropriation 1,905,000,000

Emergency Solutions Grant Program at least $225,000,000

HEARTH Act Overview

The HEARTH Act is organized in four sections:

• Subpart A – General Provisions

• Subpart B – Emergency Solutions Grant Program

• Subpart C – Continuum of Care Program

• Subpart D – Rural Housing Stability AssistanceProgram

HEARTH Act Overview

Subpart A—General Provisions– contains provisionsthat apply to all three programs authorized by theHEARTH Act, and includes the definition of:

• Homeless Individual or Family

• At-risk of Homelessness

• Chronically homeless

• Homeless individual with a disability

• Supportive services

HEARTH Act Overview

Subpart A—General Provisions– contains provisionsthat apply to all three programs authorized by theHEARTH Act, and includes the requirement to:

• Prevent involuntary family separation

• Develop and implement discharge planningpolicies and protocols

Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG)Program

The ESG Program is essentially a combination of theEmergency Shelter Grants Program and theHomelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-HousingProgram (HPRP)


Overview: Action Items

• Assess your current HPRP Process:

• What works and what does not? What percentage of thefunding have you applied to Rapid Re-Housing?

• What methods have assisted you in accurately identifyingpersons who would be homeless but for this assistance?

• What is your current portfolio and how will the decrease infunding affect that portfolio? What have you done locally toensure that the lesser amount of funding remains effective?


Overview: Action Items

• Assess your current ESG Process:

• Is it effective? How are you measuring effectiveness?

• What is the average length of stay for individuals and familiesin your shelter system?


Allocation Process

• ESG allocation formula is the same

• Based on CDBG allocation formula

• Allocates funds to States and Insular Areas and 1,116 metrocities/urban counties

• .05% grant minimum applies to metro cities and urbancounties

• Number of ESG recipients will not significantly change


Eligible activities

• Renovation, major rehabilitation, or conversion ofbuildings to be used as emergency shelters

• The provision of essential services

• Maintenance and operation of emergency shelters


Eligible activities

• Provision of short-term or medium-term rentalassistance

• Housing relocation and stabilization services

* Recipients may use up to 7.5 percent of funds foradministrative purposes


Program Requirements

• The Act requires that recipients of ESG participate in HMIS

• Recipients of ESG funds will be required to coordinate withrecipients of CoC Program funds

• Recipients will continue to apply through the ConsolidatedPlan/Annual Action Plan

• Recipients will continue to drawdown funds through IDIS


Program Requirements: Action Items

• Do all ESG recipients and subrecipients in your jurisdictionparticipate in HMIS?

• What resources (e.g., additional staff, training, additionalfunding) are needed to assist all recipients and subrecipientsin participating in HMIS?



• As an ESG recipient to what degree have you beenparticipating in the CoC process(es) within your jurisdiction?

• How can you become more involved in the local CoC(s)process(es)?

• Are any additional resources (e.g., political will, additionalstaff, additional funding) need to coordinate moreeffectively?



• What other targeted homeless resources and mainstreamresources support your homeless delivery system?

• What changes should you consider to your homelessdelivery system to remain effective?

Continuum of Care (CoC)Program

The CoC Program is essentially a combination of thecurrent Supportive Housing Program (SHP) andShelter Plus Care Program (S+C).


Award Process

• In response to a NOFA, applicants shall submit anapplication to HUD

• The amount available to each CoC will be determined by aformula, which shall be established by HUD by regulation

• HUD will award grants on a competitive basis


Award Process: Action Items

• Assess your current application process:

• What works and what does not work?

• What do you want to maintain and what do you want tochange?

• Is there an organization in your community that has thecapacity to apply as a UFA?


Selection Criteria

• Specific rating criteria that HUD must use in the competitiveprocess is included in the statute:

• Performance

• Planning

• Priorities

• Public and Private Funding

• Mainstream Programs

• Other Populations


Selection Criteria: Performance

• Performance of the CoC includes ESG projects in the CoC’sgeographic area

• Applicants will be rated based on performance in theseareas:

• The length of times individuals and families remain homeless

• The extent to which persons who leave homelessnessexperience additional spells of homelessness

• The thoroughness of grantees in reaching homeless persons


Selection Criteria: Performance

• Applicants will be rated based on performance in theseareas (cont.):

• Jobs and income growth for homeless persons

• Success at reducing the number of persons who becomehomeless

• For those CoCs serving families with children and youthdefined as homeless under other Federal statutes, success inachieving the goals and outcomes identified


Selection Criteria: Planning

• CoC Plans should describe:

• How the number of persons who become homeless will bereduced

• How the length of time that persons remain homeless will bereduced

• How the recipient of CoC funds will collaborate with localeducation authorities to assist in the identification of personswho become or remain homeless and are informed of theireligibility for services under the Subtitle B of the McKinney-Vento Act



• CoC Plans should describe the extent to which the recipientwill:

• Address the needs of all relevant subpopulations

• Incorporate comprehensive strategies for reducinghomelessness, including strategies demonstrated to beeffective

• Set quantifiable performance measures



• CoC Plans should describe the extent to which the recipientwill (cont.):

• set timelines for completion of specific tasks

• identify specific funding sources for planned activities

• identify an individual or body responsible for overseeingimplementation of specific strategies


Selection Criteria: Action Items

• What are the implications of the selection criteria describedfor your local community?

• Does your current data collection process capture thisinformation?

• How will you incorporate ESG project information into yourplanning process and performance evaluation?


Eligible activities

• For collaborative applicants, up to 3% for costsrelated to administering the planning and applicationprocess

• For UFAs, up to 3% for costs related to establish fiscalcontrols

• For all project sponsors, up to 10% for administrativecosts related to administering the project


Eligible activities

• Acquisition, new construction, and rehabilitation

• Leasing

• Rental Assistance

• Operating costs

• Supportive services

• Rehousing services

• HMIS


Eligible activities: Action Items

• What are the implications of the eligible activities foryour local community?

• Which legal entity will you choose to receive thefunds for administrative costs related to designing acollaborative process and carry out the activities onbehalf of the CoC?

• What is your current portfolio of projects, and whatwill be impacted by the eligible activities?



• Continuums of Care must participate in the consolidatedplanning process

• Continuums of Care must conduct an actual count ofhomeless persons

• Continuums of Care must develop and implement policiesand protocols to prevent discharges from publicly fundedinstitutions or systems of care that immediately result inhomelessness



• Recipients of funds must obtain site control within 12months of notification of award

• At least one homeless, or formerly homeless person, mustparticipate on the board of directors or other policy-makingentity for each grant recipient or project sponsor

• Recipients must demonstrate a match of 25 percent for allactivities except leasing



• What are the implications of these other programrequirements for your local community?

• How will the match requirements affect your project’s abilityto provide housing and services to program participants?

• What changes should you consider to your homelessservices delivery system to remain effective under theMcKinney-Vento Act, as amended by HEARTH?

Rural Housing StabilityAssistance (RHS) Program

The Rural Housing Stability Assistance Program isdesigned to assist individuals and families who arehomeless, in imminent danger of losing housing, or inthe worst case housing situations in the geographicarea


Award Process

• In response to a NOFA, applicants shall submit anapplication to HUD

• Applicants will be required to choose between receivingfunding through the CoC Program or receiving fundingthrough the RHS Program

• HUD will award grants on a competitive basis

• Selection set-asides for communities of less than 10,000 andcommunities less than 5,000

• Priority given to communities that are not receiving significantFederal assistance


Eligible activities

• Rent, mortgage, and utility assistance

• Security deposits

• Short-term emergency lodging

• New construction, acquisition, and rehabilitation

• Leasing and rental assistance

• Operating costs

• Rehabilitation and Repairs

• Comprehensive and coordinated support services

• Capacity building activities

President’s FY2012 Budget

Program Amount Available

Total Appropriation $2.372 billion

Emergency Solutions Grants $286 million

Continuum of Care (renewing) ≈ $1.91 billion

Continuum of Care and Rural HousingStability Assistance (new competitive)

≈ $126 million

Special Initiative for High-Need Areas $50 million

Resources

Up to date information regarding the HEARTH Act, including acopy of the McKinney-Vento Act amended by the HEARTHAct, can be found at http://www.hudhre.info/hearth

Questions regarding IDIS should be submitted to the IDISTechnical Assistance Unit (TAU) Helpdesk at 877.483.8282or [email protected]

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Questions

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