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Approve Amending the 2021-2022 HOME Investment Partnership Program Annual Plan.
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Staff:
Department:
Sarah Osmer Vi?as, Director
Affordable Housing and Community Connections
Nate Broman-Fulks, Assistant Director
Megan Culp, Community Development Program Manager
Overview: The purpose of this item is to consider a proposed amendment to the 2021-2022 HOME Investment Partnership Program Annual Plan approved by the Council on May 5, 2021. The Plan amendment would add the Allocation Plan for $1,371,401 in HOME Investment Partnerships American Rescue Plan Program (HOME-ARP) funding.
The Orange County Local Government Affordable Housing Collaborative Overview
* The Town of Chapel Hill is a member of the Orange County HOME Program Consortium, with Orange County serving as the lead entity. The Consortium includes four participating jurisdictions (Chapel Hill, Carrboro, Hillsborough, and Orange County).
* To enhance collaboration around affordable housing among the jurisdictions in the County, the scope of the existing Home consortium was expanded in 2017 and re-named the Orange County Local Government Affordable Housing Collaborative (the Collaborative).
o The Collaborative includes elected officials and staff from the each of the four participating jurisdictions and serves as the HOME Program Consortium application review team, charged with developing an annual HOME Program plan.
o Mayor pro tem Karen Stegman represents the Chapel Hill Town Council on the Collaborative.
HOME-ARP
* The HOME-ARP provides HOME Program entitlement communities with a one-time award of funding to reduce homelessness and increase housing stability in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
* The HOME-ARP Allocation Plan must be submitted to HUD as an amendment to the 2021-2022 HOME Annual Action Plan no later than March 31, 2023.
o The Allocation Plan's purpose is to update HUD on the Collaborative's community engagement, needs analysis, prioritization for households serv...
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