DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY AND CULTURE DIVISION OF HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT STATE COMMUNITY SERVICES OFFICE

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY AND CULTUREDIVISION OF
HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENTSTATE
COMMUNITY SERVICES OFFICE

• Unified Homeless Funding
• 2012 Application WORKSHOP

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• STATE HOMELESS PROGRAM FUDING RESOURCES
  
• (PAHTF, CNH ESG)
• Pamela Atkinson Homeless Trust Fund (PAHTF)
• Critical Needs Housing (CNH)
• Emergency Shelter Grant (ESG)

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• STATE HOMELESS PROGRAM RESOURCES
• Pamela Atkinson Homeless Trust Fund
  (PAHTF) Cont.
• Definition
• PAHTF funding can be used to provide emergency
• services to low-income individuals or families
  in need of
• assistance such as emergency shelter, temporary
• shelter, food, childcare, and case management
  services in
• moving towards self-sufficiency and helping to
  prevent
• homelessness.

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STATE HOMELESS PROGRAM RESOURCES

• Pamela Atkinson Homeless Trust Fund (PAHTF)
  Cont.
• Definition
• PAHTF is for the purpose of serving
  low-income/homeless clients with the
• following services
• Shelter - Mass shelter, one bed night, motel
  vouchers if the shelter is full or the agency
  does not have a shelter facility.
• Food - Hot nutritious meal, sack meal, replenish
  food pantry.
• Case Management - Financial counseling,
  employment, housing, supportive services and
  other (Please define other).
• Day Care - Pay for a homeless childs Day Care
  services in order for parent to be able to go
  work or job search.
• Outreach - Help homeless individuals on the
  street.
• Transitional Housing One night of TH with case
  management services.
• Other Innovative self-sufficiency program
  services.

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STATE HOMELESS
PROGRAM RESOURCES Pamela Atkinson
Homeless Trust Fund (PAHTF) Cont.
Definition
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STATE
HOMELESS PROGRAM RESOURCES

• Critical Needs Housing (CNH)
• Definition
• CNH funding can be used as emergency home repairs
  for low
• income individuals, families, senior citizens,
  disabled individuals
• and special needs people to assist them in
  retaining
• their home and prevent homelessness.

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STATE HOMELESS PROGRAM RESOURCES

• Critical Needs Housing (CNH) Cont.
• Definition
• CNH monies is allocated to agencies for the
  following client services
• Accessibility Design for Disabled
  
• Accessibility Design (Not the same as emergency
  home repair for disabled)
• Mobility problem assessment
• Accessibility-training workshops
• Design options and construction plan for
  accessibility modifications to homes and
  community buildings throughout the State of Utah
• Emergency Home Repairs-General
• Home repairs to low-income individuals who own
  and are living in their
• housing at the present time to correct life
  threatening housing deficiencies.
• Minor roof repair/replacement
• Furnace repair/replacement

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STATE HOMELESS PROGRAM RESOURCES

• Critical Needs Housing (CNH)- (Cont.)
• 
  Definition
• Plumbing
• Water/Waste project septic system, culinary
  water line repairs
• Leveling of flooring
• Other direct accessibility project expenses
• Emergency Home Repair Disabled Access
• Renovate permanent housing for better access to
  help low-income
• homeowners remain in their home.
• Grab Bar
• Wheel chair ramp
• Retrofitting bathrooms
• Handrails
• Stair lifts
• Other direct home modifications for better
  access expenses

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STATE HOMELESS
PROGRAM RESOURCES

• Critical Needs Housing (CNH)- (Cont.)
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  Definition
• Grants to Leverage Housing Monies and Supportive
  Services
• Funds will provide a match to competitive federal
  grants to help low-
• income individuals to continue working towards
  self-sufficiency.
• Assist Utah service providers in winning
  competitive funding.
• Service to low-income persons and/or permanent
  housing project construction.
• Other-Housing Innovative Projects
• This category cannot duplicate the Olene Walker
  Housing Trust Fund
• program projects.
• Match Requirement for CNH Funds
• CNH recipient is required to match this grant 1
  dollar to every 4 dollars awarded.

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STATE
HOMELESS PROGRAM RESOURCES
Critical Needs Housing (CNH) Cont.
Outcome and Service Units
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STATE HOMELESS PROGRAM RESOURCES

• Emergency Shelter Grant (ESG)
• Definition
• The ESG grant is a federal formula base-grant
  program that is designed to be
• the first step in a continuum of assistance to
  prevent homelessness and enable
• homeless individuals and families to move towards
  self-sufficiency. Household
• Income must be at or below 125 of the Federal
  Poverty Level (See Poverty
• Guideline Eligibility Chart). ESG funds can be
  used to provide facilities and
• services to meet the needs of homeless people by
  increasing the number and
• quality of emergency shelters and transitional
  housing facilities and essential
• services for homeless Individuals and families to
  prevent homeless. The
• following are ESG eligible project activities
• Renovation, rehabilitation or conversion of
  building into homeless shelters
• Operating expenses
• Essential Services
• Homeless Prevention activities
• (Please refer to attached 2011 poverty
  Guidelines eligibility chart)

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STATE HOMELESS PROGRAM RESOURCES

• Emergency Shelter Grant (ESG) Cont.
• Definition
• Renovations, Rehabilitation Conversion
• The regulations differentiate the three types of
  improvements and bases
• continued use restrictions of the shelter on the
  level of improvements.
• Conversion a change in the use of a building to
  an emergency shelter
• for the homeless where the cost of conversion and
  any rehabilitation costs
• exceed 75 percent of the value of the facility
  after conversion.
• Renovation a rehabilitation that involves costs
  of 75 percent or less of the
• value of the facility before renovation.
• Major Rehabilitation a rehabilitation that
  involves cost in excess of 75
• percent of the value of the building before
  rehabilitation.
• Note Value of the facility means the monetary
  value assigned to a building by

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STATE HOMELESS PROGRAM RESOURCES

• Emergency Shelter Grant (ESG) Cont.
• Definition
• Renovation, Rehabilitation Conversion
• Eligible Expenditures
• Existing Homeless Shelter
• Existing Transitional Housing
• The Shelter Facility-must be in use for a period
  of 3 or 10 years
• Ineligible Cost
• Acquisition of Real Property
• New Construction
• Property Clearance or Demolition
• Not general repair works (examples such as
  painting, plumbing repairs, electrical repairs
  and or any essential item needed to maintain any
  part of the facility.)

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STATE HOMELESS PROGRAM RESOURCES

• Emergency Shelter Grant (ESG) Cont.
• Definition
• Renovation, Rehabilitation Conversion
• Ineligible Cost (cont.)
• Rehabilitation administration
• Staff training or fund raising activities
  associated with rehabilitation
• Building maintenance and repairs (See ESG Desk
  Guide - Operations)

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STATE HOMELESS PROGRAM RESOURCES

• Emergency Shelter Grant (ESG) Cont.
• Definition
• Operations Maintenance
• Funds can be used to cover a broad array of
  emergency shelter and
  
• transitional housing costs to provide services to
  the homeless.
• Operating Cost
• Expenses incurred by a recipient directly
  operating a facility assisted under this subtitle
  with respect to
• a) The maintenance, repair, and security of such
  housing and
• b) Utilities, fuels, furnishings, and equipment
  for such housing.

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STATE HOMELESS PROGRAM RESOURCES

• Emergency Shelter Grant (ESG) Cont.
• Definition
• Operations Maintenance
• Eligible Cost
• Various eligible operating costs related to the
  provision of emergency and transitional housing
  maintenance, operation, insurance, utilities and
  furnishings, except that not more than 10 percent
  of the amount of any grant received under this
  subtitle may be used for costs of staff.
• Payment for shelter maintenance, operation, rent,
  repairs, security, fuel, equipment, insurance,
  utilities, food and furnishings.
• Ineligible Cost
• Recruitment or on-going training of staff,
  depreciation, costs associated with organization
  rather than supportive services, etc.
• (See ESG Program Desk Guide for additional
  ineligible program cost)

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STATE HOMELESS PROGRAM RESOURCES

• EMERGENCY SHELTER GRANT (ESG) Cont.
• DEFINITION
• Essential Services
• Essential services address the immediate needs of
  the homeless, and can
• help enable homeless persons in becoming more
  independent and to
• secure permanent housing.

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STATE HOMELESS PROGRAM RESOURCES

• EMERGENCY SHELTER GRANT (ESG) Cont.
• DEFINITION
• Essential Services
• Eligibility Criteria
• Homeless persons living on the street
• Homeless persons in emergency shelter or
  transitional housing
• New homeless services
• For new funding or increased funding request you
  will need to demonstrate a quantifiable increase
  in services above the level previously funded

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STATE HOMELESS PROGRAM RESOSURCES

• EMERGENCY SHELTER GRANT (ESG) Cont.
• DEFINITION
• Essential Services
• Qualified Services
• Essential services include services in relations
  to - employment, health,
• drug abuse, and education and may include (but
  are not limited)
• Assistance in obtaining permanent housing
• Medical Psychological counseling and
  supervision
• Employment counseling
• Nutritional counseling
• Substance abuse treatment and counseling

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STATE HOMELESS PROGRAM RESOURCES

• EMERGENCY SHELTER GRANT (ESG) Cont.
• DEFINITION
• Essential Services
• Eligible Activities
• Assistance in obtaining other Federal, State and
  local assistance including mental health
  benefits employment counseling medical
  assistance Veterans benefits and income
  support assistance such as supplemental Security
  Income benefits Aide to Families with Dependent
  Children, General Assistance, and Food Stamps
• Other services such as child care,
  transportation, job placement and job training
• Staff salaries necessary to provide the above
  services.

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STATE HOMELESS PROGRAM RESOURCES

• EMERGENCY SHELTER GRANT (ESG) Cont.
• DEFINITION
• Essential Services
• Ineligible Activities
• Existing services and staff (services must be new
  or provided to more people)
• Salary of case management supervisor not working
  directly on client issues
• Advocacy, planning, and organizational capacity
  building
• Staff recruitment/training
• Transportation costs not directly associated with
  service delivery

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STATE HOMELESS PROGRAM RESOURCES

• EMERGENCY SHELTER GRANT (ESG) Cont.
• DEFINITION
• Homeless Prevention
• Homeless Prevention means activities or programs
  designed to prevent the
• incidence of homelessness by developing and
  implementing homeless
• prevention measures.

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STATE HOMELESS PROGRAM RESOURCES

• EMERGENCY SHELTER GRANT (ESG) Cont.
• DEFINITION
• Homeless Prevention
• Eligibility Criteria
• Being evicted within a week from a private
  dwelling unit
• Being discharged within a week from an
  institution in which the person resided for more
  than 30 consecutive days.
• Obtain evidence of an eviction, foreclosure or
  utility termination notice(s).
• Evidence that the inability to pay was sudden,
  necessary to prevent homelessness, and resumption
  of payment is expected within the near future.

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STATE HOMELESS
PROGRAM RESOURCES

• EMERGENCY SHELTER GRANT (ESG) Cont.
• DEFINITION
• Homeless Prevention
• Evidence would include notice of termination
  from utility provider, copy of court documents
  that eviction was imminent or foreclosure
  documents stating foreclosure proceeding were
  pending.
• Sudden loss of income means loss of a job
  or inability to work due to illness.

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STATE HOMELESS PROGRAM RESOURCES

• EMERGENCY SHELTER GRANT (ESG) Cont.
• DEFINITION
• Homeless Prevention
• Qualified Services
• Short-term subsidies to defray rent and utility
  arrearages for families that have received
  eviction or utility termination notices
• Security deposits or first months rent to permit
  a homeless family to move into their own
  apartment
• Mediation programs for landlord-tenant disputes
• Legal services programs for the representation of
  indigent tenants in eviction proceedings
• Payments to prevent foreclosure on a home
• Other innovative programs and activities designed
  to help prevent the incidence of homelessness.

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STATE HOMELESS PROGRAM RESOURCES

• EMERGENCY SHELTER GRANT (ESG) Cont.
• DEFINITION
• Homeless Prevention
• Ineligible Activities
• Preparation of Consolidated Plan and other
  application submissions
• Conferences or training in professional field
  such as accounting and financial management
• Salary of organizations executive director
  (except to the extent involved in carrying out
  eligible administrative functions)

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STATE HOMELESS PROGRAM RESOURCES

• EMERGENCY SHELTER GRANT (ESG) (Cont.)
• (Applies to all ESG Categories)
• Required Match of ESG Funds
• ESG recipient is required to match this grant
  dollar for dollar from other public or private
  sources by
• a) Providing matching funds itself
• b) Voluntary efforts by any recipient or
  project sponsor
• Evidence of Matching ESG funds must be provided
  after the date of award.
• (Note Funds used to match previous ESG
  grants may not be used to match another
  subsequent grant award.)

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STATE HOMELESS PROGRAM RESOURCES

• EMERGENCY SHELTER GRANT (ESG) Cont.
• References
• Please refer to the Emergency Shelter Desk
  Guide for further detailed
• information on ESG criteria, compliance and
  program requirements at
• website address listed below
• http//www.hudhre.info/index.cfm?doviewEsgDe
  skguide
• 2001 ESG Desk Guide Manual
• ESG Downloadable Desk Guide
• Desk Guide Cover
• Introduction through section 4
• Open the PDF File this is the complete Desk
  Guide Manuel to download for your use

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Department of Health and Human Services2011
Poverty Guidelines
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