HOME-ARP

Consortium: Cities of Schenectady, Troy, & Town of Colonie

HOME-ARP: Request For Proposals

Click on the buttons below to open each RFP by project type.
Due Date for Proposals: August 18th, 2023 at 4:00pm
Send to: KFollett@caresny.org
Late submissions will not be considered.

Summary

The American Rescue Plan (ARP) provides $5 billion nationwide to assist individuals or households who are homeless, at risk of homelessness, and other vulnerable populations, by providing housing, rental assistance, supportive services, and non-congregate shelter, to reduce homelessness and increase housing stability across the country. These grant funds will be administered through HUD’s HOME Investment Partnerships Program (HOME). For more information on this program, please visit HUD’s website.

The Consortium (Cities of Schenectady and Troy and Town of Colonie) has been allocated over $3.8 ($3,832,771) million dollars through the HOME-ARP program.

CARES of NY, Inc. worked on behalf of the Consortium to develop the allocation plan for HOME-ARP funding.

We want to hear from you

The Consortium: Cities of Schenectady and Troy, and Town of Colonie must engage in consultation and public participation processes for the HOME-ARP funding which will inform the development of an allocation plan.  The HOME-ARP allocation plan must describe how the Consortium intends to distribute the funds, including how it will use these funds to address the needs of HOME-ARP qualifying populations.

The Consultation and Public Participation Process

As part of the planning process, CARES conducted the following research/outreach:

1) Collected and analyzed data from several sources, including Census, Homeless Management Information System, Housing Inventory Chart and Point in Time Count, and Coordinated Entry; to inform how to best target HOME-ARP resources to reduce homelessness and increase housing instability
2) Facilitated focused discussions with the local Public Housing Authority to identify need
3) Facilitated focused discussion with affordable housing developers to identify interest and document possible barriers to utilizing HOME-ARP
4) Developed, conducted, and analyzed a community stakeholder survey
5) Facilitated a community stakeholder forum with members of the Continuum of Care (CoC) and community stakeholders for Cities of Schenectady & Troy, and the Town of Colonie
6) Developed and conducted a public survey
7) Hosted a public hearing
8) Posted the allocation plan for a two-week public comment period

Public Forum

CARES and the Consortium conducted virtual public hearings on November 15th, 2022 from 12:00pm-1:30pm and November 16th, 2022 from 5:00pm-6:30pm to discuss the HOME-American Rescue Plan (ARP). Presented were the eligible activities, qualifying populations, and potential subpopulations of the program as well as a question & answer from public who were present.

Review the Slides Presented at the Public Forums Below:

Public Survey

The Consortium has issued a public survey requesting feedback from the public to inform the highest need and best use of these funds. The survey closed on September 2, 2022.

For any special accommodations needed to participate in the public consultation process for the HOME-ARP allocation plan, please reach out to Genesis Mattey (gmattey@caresny.org).

A separate survey was issued to affordable housing and homeless services stakeholders.

Community Stakeholder Forum

Wednesday, August 3rd, 10:00am – 11:00am OR Thursday, August 4th, 4:00 – 5:00pm

3 de Agosto 2022 a las 10:00 a 11:00 am O 4 de Agosto, 2022 a las 4:00 a 5:00 pm

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English

Spanish

Accessibility & Limited English

For any special accommodations needed to participate in the public consultation process for the HOME-ARP allocation plan, please reach out to Genesis Mattey (gmattey@caresny.org).

If any community member requires assistance with translating information throughout the public participation process we can support with transcriptions or translations. Please contact Genesis Mattey (gmattey@caresny.org) with those requests.

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Learn more about HOME-ARP

Eligible Activities

A. Administration and Planning

For information, read this fact sheet.

B. Rental Housing (A.K.A.: Affordable Housing Development)

HOME-ARP funds may be used to acquire, rehabilitate, or construct affordable rental housing primarily for occupancy by households of individuals and families that meet the definition of one or more of the qualifying populations.  For more information, read this fact sheet.

C. Tenant-Based Rental Assistance (TBRA)

HOME-ARP funds may be used to provide tenant-based rental assistance to qualifying households. A qualifying household would receive payments to cover the entire or insufficient amounts that they cannot pay towards their housing and housing-related costs, such as rental assistance, security deposits, and utility deposits.  For more information, read this fact sheet.

D. Supportive Services

McKinney-Vento Supportive Services are intended for those experiencing homelessness  to ensure ongoing stable housing (i.e. childcare services, Employment Assistance programs, outpatient health services, food, case management, assistance in obtaining housing, outreach services, mental health services, victim services, legal services, transportation, and other services necessary to obtain and maintain housing).

Homeless Prevention Services are also considered part the Support Services activity.

Housing Counseling Services (i.e. development of action plan for locating housing, housing search, tenant counseling, obtaining and securing utilities, making moving arrangements, outreach and negotiations with owners, assistance submitting applications and understanding leases, credit counseling) are also considered part of the Support Services Activity.

For more information, please read this factsheet.

E. Acquisition and Development of Non-Congregate Shelter

HOME-ARP funds may be used to acquire and develop shelters with individual units to provide emergency housing for persons experiencing homelessness. For more information, read this fact sheet.

F. Nonprofit Operating and Capacity Building Assistance

For information, read this fact sheet.

1.     Homeless as defined in 24 CFR 91.5 Homeless (1), (2), or (3):

The meaning of “homeless” is as such term is defined in section 103(a) of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 11302(a)), which is codified in HUD’s Continuum of Care Program regulations at 24 CFR 578.3 and reads as follows: Homeless means:

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(1) An individual or family who lacks a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence, meaning:

(i) An individual or family with a primary nighttime residence that is a public or private place not designed for or ordinarily used as a regular sleeping accommodation for human beings, including a car, park, abandoned building, bus or train station, airport, or camping ground;

(ii) An individual or family living in a supervised publicly or privately operated shelter designated to provide temporary living arrangements (including congregate shelters, transitional housing, and hotels and motels paid for by charitable organizations or by federal, State, or local government programs for low-income individuals); or

(iii) An individual who is exiting an institution where he or she resided for 90 days or less and who resided in an emergency shelter or place not meant for human habitation immediately before entering that institution.

(2) An individual or family who will imminently lose their primary nighttime residence, provided that:

(i) The primary nighttime residence will be lost within 14 days of the date of application for homeless assistance;

(ii) No subsequent residence has been identified; and

(iii) The individual or family lacks the resources or support networks, e.g., family, friends, faith-based or other social networks, needed to obtain other permanent housing.

(3) Unaccompanied youth under 25 years of age, or families with children and youth, who do not otherwise qualify as homeless under this definition, but who:

(i) Are defined as homeless under section 387 of the Runaway and Homeless Youth Act (42 U.S.C. 5732a), section 637 of the Head Start Act (42 U.S.C. 9832), section 41403 of the Violence Against Women Act of 1994 (42 U.S.C. 14043e-2), section 330(h) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 254b(h)), section 3 of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2012), section 17(b) of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42U.S.C. 1786(b)), or section 725 of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 11434a); U.S.C. 1786(b)), or section 725 of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 11434a);

2.    At-risk of Homelessness as defined in 24 CFR 91.5

The meaning of “at-risk of homelessness” is as such term is defined in section 401(1) of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 11360(1)), which is codified in HUD’s Continuum of Care Program regulations at 24 CFR 578.3 and reads as follows:

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At risk of homelessness.

(1) An individual or family who:

  • Has an annual income below 30 percent of median family income for the area, as determined by HUD;
  • Does not have sufficient resources or support networks, e.g., family, friends, faith-based or other social networks, immediately available to prevent them from moving to an emergency shelter or another place described in paragraph (1) of the “Homeless” definition above; and

(iii) Meets one of the following conditions:

(a) Has moved because of economic reasons two or more times during the 60 days immediately preceding the application for homelessness prevention assistance;

(b) Is living in the home of another because of economic hardship;

(c) Has been notified in writing that their right to occupy their current housing or living situation will be terminated within 21 days of the date of application for assistance;

(d) Lives in a hotel or motel and the cost of the hotel or motel stay is not paid by charitable organizations or by federal, State, or local government programs for low-income individuals;

(e)          Lives in a single-room occupancy or efficiency apartment unit in which there reside more than two persons, or lives in a larger housing unit in which there reside more than 1.5 people per room, as defined by the U.S. Census Bureau;

(f)           Is exiting a publicly funded institution, or system of care (such as a health-care facility, a mental health facility, foster care or other youth facility, or correction program or institution); or

(g)          Otherwise lives in housing that has characteristics associated with instability and an increased risk of homelessness, as identified in the recipient’s approved consolidated plan.

(2)          A child or youth who does not qualify as “homeless” under this section, but qualifies as “homeless” under section 387(3) of the Runaway and Homeless Youth Act (42 U.S.C. 5732a(3)), section 637(11) of the Head Start Act (42 U.S.C. 9832(11)), section 41403(6) of the Violence Against Women Act of 1994 (42 U.S.C. 14043e-2(6)), section 330(h)(5)(A) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 254b(h)(5)(A)), section 3(m) of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2012(m)), or section 17(b)(15) of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 1786(b)(15)); or

(3)          A child or youth who does not qualify as “homeless” under this section, but qualifies as “homeless” under section 725(2) of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 11434a(2)), and the parent(s) or guardian(s) of that child or youth if living with her or him.

3.    Fleeing, or attempting to flee, domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, stalking, or human trafficking

For HOME-ARP, this population includes any individual or family who is fleeing, or is attempting to flee, domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, stalking, or human trafficking. This population includes cases where an individual or family reasonably believes that there is a threat of imminent harm from further violence due to dangerous or life-threatening conditions that relate to violence against the individual or a family member, including a child, that has either taken place within the individual’s or family’s primary nighttime residence or has made the individual or family afraid to return or remain within the same dwelling unit. In the case of sexual assault, this also includes cases where an individual reasonably believes there is a threat of imminent harm from further violence if the individual remains within the same dwelling unit that the individual is currently occupying, or the sexual assault occurred on the premises during the 90-day period preceding the date of the request for transfer.

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Domestic violence, which is defined in 24 CFR 5.2003, includes felony or misdemeanor crimes of violence committed by:

  1. a current or former spouse or intimate partner of the victim (the term “spouse or intimate partner of the victim” includes a person who is or has been in a social relationship of a romantic or intimate nature with the victim, as determined by the length of the relationship, the type of the relationship, and the frequency of interaction between the persons involved in the relationship),
  2. a person with whom the victim shares a child in common, a person similarly situated to a spouse of the victim under the domestic or family violence laws of the jurisdiction receiving grant monies, a person who is cohabitating with or has cohabitated with the victim as a spouse or intimate partner, or any other person against an adult or youth victim who is protected from that person’s acts under the domestic or family violence laws of the jurisdiction.

Dating violence which is defined in 24 CFR 5.2003 means violence committed by a person:

  1. Who is or has been in a social relationship of a romantic or intimate nature with the victim; and
  2. Where the existence of such a relationship shall be determined based on a consideration of the following factors:
  3. The length of the relationship;
  4. The type of relationship; and
  5. The frequency of interaction between the persons involved in the relationship.

Sexual assault means any nonconsensual sexual act proscribed by Federal, Tribal, or State law, including when the victim lacks capacity to consent.

Stalking means engaging in a course of conduct directed at a specific person that would cause a reasonable person to:

  1. Fear for the person’s individual safety or the safety of others; or
  2. Suffer substantial emotional distress.

Human trafficking includes both sex and labor trafficking, as outlined in the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (TVPA), as amended (22 U.S.C. § 7102).  These are defined as:

  • Sex trafficking means the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, obtaining, patronizing, or soliciting of a person for the purpose of a commercial sex act, in which the commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such act has not attained 18 years of age; (and)
  • Labor trafficking means the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for labor or services, through the use of force, fraud, or coercion for the purpose of subjection to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery.

4.  Other Populations

This category is composed of individuals and families where providing supportive services or assistance would prevent the family’s homelessness or would serve those with the greatest risk of housing instability. HUD defines these populations as individuals and households who do not qualify under any of the populations above but meet one of the following criteria:

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(1) Other Families Requiring Services or Housing Assistance to Prevent Homelessness is defined as households (i.e., individuals and families) who have previously been qualified as “homeless” as defined in 24 CFR 91.5, are currently housed due to temporary or emergency assistance, including financial assistance, services, temporary rental assistance or some type of other assistance to allow the household to be housed, and who need additional housing assistance or supportive services to avoid a return to homelessness.
(2) At Greatest Risk of Housing Instability is defined as household who meets either paragraph (i) or (ii) below:

(i) has annual income that is less than or equal to 30% of the area median income, as determined by HUD and is experiencing severe cost burden (i.e., is paying more than 50% of monthly household income toward housing costs);

(ii) has annual income that is less than or equal to 50% of the area median income, as determined by HUD, AND meets one of the following conditions from paragraph (iii) of the “At risk of homelessness” definition established at 24 CFR 91.5:
(A) Has moved because of economic reasons two or more times during the 60 days immediately preceding the application for homelessness prevention assistance;
(B) Is living in the home of another because of economic hardship;
(C) Has been notified in writing that their right to occupy their current housing or living situation will be terminated within 21 days after the date of application for assistance;
(D) Lives in a hotel or motel and the cost of the hotel or motel stay is not paid by charitable organizations or by Federal, State, or local government programs for low-income individuals;
(E) Lives in a single-room occupancy or efficiency apartment unit in which there reside more than two persons or lives in a larger housing unit in which there reside more than 1.5 persons reside per room, as defined by the U.S. Census Bureau;
(F) Is exiting a publicly funded institution, or system of care (such as a health-care facility, a mental health facility, foster care or other youth facility, or correction program or institution); or
(G) Otherwise lives in housing that has characteristics associated with instability and an increased risk of homelessness, as identified in the recipient’s approved consolidated plan

Veterans and Families that include a Veteran Family Member that meet the criteria for one of the qualifying populations described above are eligible to receive HOME-ARP assistance.

General Information

For general information regarding the Consortium’s HOME-ARP, or to request special accommodations or translation services please contact:
CARES of NY, Inc.
gmattey@caresny.org

HOME-ARP

Consortium: Schenectady, Rensselaer, & Town of Colonie

HOME-ARP: Request For Proposals

Click on the buttons below to open each RFP by project type.
Due Date for Proposals: August 18th, 2023 at 4:00pm
Send to: KFollett@caresny.org
Late submissions will not be considered.

click the images below to view larger

English

Spanish

Summary

The American Rescue Plan (ARP) provides $5 billion nationwide to assist individuals or households who are homeless, at risk of homelessness, and other vulnerable populations, by providing housing, rental assistance, supportive services, and non-congregate shelter, to reduce homelessness and increase housing stability across the country. These grant funds will be administered through HUD’s HOME Investment Partnerships Program (HOME). For more information on this program, please visit HUD’s website.

The Consortium (Cities of Schenectady and Troy and Town of Colonie) has been allocated over $3.8 million dollars through the HOME-ARP program.
CARES of NY, Inc. is working on behalf of the Consortium to develop an allocation plan for HOME-ARP funding.

We want to hear from you

The Consortium: Cities of Schenectady and Troy, and Town of Colonie must engage in consultation and public participation processes for the HOME-ARP funding which will inform the development of an allocation plan.  The HOME-ARP allocation plan must describe how the Consortium intends to distribute the funds, including how it will use these funds to address the needs of HOME-ARP qualifying populations.

The Consultation and Public Participation Process

As part of the planning process, CARES conducted the following research/outreach:

1) Collected and analyzed data from several sources, including Census, Homeless Management Information System, Housing Inventory Chart and Point in Time Count, and Coordinated Entry; to inform how to best target HOME-ARP resources to reduce homelessness and increase housing instability
2) Facilitated focused discussions with the local Public Housing Authority to identify need
3) Facilitated focused discussion with affordable housing developers to identify interest and document possible barriers to utilizing HOME-ARP
4) Developed, conducted, and analyzed a community stakeholder survey
5) Facilitated a community stakeholder forum with members of the Continuum of Care (CoC) and community stakeholders for Cities of Schenectady & Troy, and the Town of Colonie
6) Developed and conducted a public survey
7) Hosted a public hearing
8) Posted the allocation plan for a two-week public comment period

Public Forum

CARES and the Consortium conducted virtual public hearings on November 15th, 2022 from 12:00pm-1:30pm and November 16th, 2022 from 5:00pm-6:30pm to discuss the HOME-American Rescue Plan (ARP). Presented were the eligible activities, qualifying populations, and potential subpopulations of the program as well as a question & answer from public who were present.

Review the Slides Presented at the Public Forums Below:

Public Survey

The Consortium has issued a public survey requesting feedback from the public to inform the highest need and best use of these funds. The survey closed on September 2, 2022.

For any special accommodations needed to participate in the public consultation process for the HOME-ARP allocation plan, please reach out to Genesis Mattey (gmattey@caresny.org).

A separate survey was issued to affordable housing and homeless services stakeholders.

Community Stakeholder Forum

Wednesday, August 3rd, 10:00am – 11:00am OR Thursday, August 4th, 4:00 – 5:00pm

3 de Agosto 2022 a las 10:00 a 11:00 am O 4 de Agosto, 2022 a las 4:00 a 5:00 pm

Learn more about HOME-ARP

Eligible Activities

A. Administration and Planning

For information, read this fact sheet.

B. Rental Housing (A.K.A.: Affordable Housing Development)

HOME-ARP funds may be used to acquire, rehabilitate, or construct affordable rental housing primarily for occupancy by households of individuals and families that meet the definition of one or more of the qualifying populations.  For more information, read this fact sheet.

C. Tenant-Based Rental Assistance (TBRA)

HOME-ARP funds may be used to provide tenant-based rental assistance to qualifying households. A qualifying household would receive payments to cover the entire or insufficient amounts that they cannot pay towards their housing and housing-related costs, such as rental assistance, security deposits, and utility deposits.  For more information, read this fact sheet.

D. Supportive Services

McKinney-Vento Supportive Services are intended for those experiencing homelessness  to ensure ongoing stable housing (i.e. childcare services, Employment Assistance programs, outpatient health services, food, case management, assistance in obtaining housing, outreach services, mental health services, victim services, legal services, transportation, and other services necessary to obtain and maintain housing).

Homeless Prevention Services are also considered part the Support Services activity.

Housing Counseling Services (i.e. development of action plan for locating housing, housing search, tenant counseling, obtaining and securing utilities, making moving arrangements, outreach and negotiations with owners, assistance submitting applications and understanding leases, credit counseling) are also considered part of the Support Services Activity.

For more information, please read this factsheet.

E. Acquisition and Development of Non-Congregate Shelter

HOME-ARP funds may be used to acquire and develop shelters with individual units to provide emergency housing for persons experiencing homelessness. For more information, read this fact sheet.

F. Nonprofit Operating and Capacity Building Assistance

For information, read this fact sheet.

1.     Homeless as defined in 24 CFR 91.5 Homeless (1), (2), or (3):

The meaning of “homeless” is as such term is defined in section 103(a) of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 11302(a)), which is codified in HUD’s Continuum of Care Program regulations at 24 CFR 578.3 and reads as follows: Homeless means:

Read more...

(1) An individual or family who lacks a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence, meaning:

(i) An individual or family with a primary nighttime residence that is a public or private place not designed for or ordinarily used as a regular sleeping accommodation for human beings, including a car, park, abandoned building, bus or train station, airport, or camping ground;

(ii) An individual or family living in a supervised publicly or privately operated shelter designated to provide temporary living arrangements (including congregate shelters, transitional housing, and hotels and motels paid for by charitable organizations or by federal, State, or local government programs for low-income individuals); or

(iii) An individual who is exiting an institution where he or she resided for 90 days or less and who resided in an emergency shelter or place not meant for human habitation immediately before entering that institution.

(2) An individual or family who will imminently lose their primary nighttime residence, provided that:

(i) The primary nighttime residence will be lost within 14 days of the date of application for homeless assistance;

(ii) No subsequent residence has been identified; and

(iii) The individual or family lacks the resources or support networks, e.g., family, friends, faith-based or other social networks, needed to obtain other permanent housing.

(3) Unaccompanied youth under 25 years of age, or families with children and youth, who do not otherwise qualify as homeless under this definition, but who:

(i) Are defined as homeless under section 387 of the Runaway and Homeless Youth Act (42 U.S.C. 5732a), section 637 of the Head Start Act (42 U.S.C. 9832), section 41403 of the Violence Against Women Act of 1994 (42 U.S.C. 14043e-2), section 330(h) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 254b(h)), section 3 of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2012), section 17(b) of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42U.S.C. 1786(b)), or section 725 of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 11434a); U.S.C. 1786(b)), or section 725 of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 11434a);

2.    At-risk of Homelessness as defined in 24 CFR 91.5

The meaning of “at-risk of homelessness” is as such term is defined in section 401(1) of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 11360(1)), which is codified in HUD’s Continuum of Care Program regulations at 24 CFR 578.3 and reads as follows:

Read more...

At risk of homelessness.

(1) An individual or family who:

  • Has an annual income below 30 percent of median family income for the area, as determined by HUD;
  • Does not have sufficient resources or support networks, e.g., family, friends, faith-based or other social networks, immediately available to prevent them from moving to an emergency shelter or another place described in paragraph (1) of the “Homeless” definition above; and

(iii) Meets one of the following conditions:

(a) Has moved because of economic reasons two or more times during the 60 days immediately preceding the application for homelessness prevention assistance;

(b) Is living in the home of another because of economic hardship;

(c) Has been notified in writing that their right to occupy their current housing or living situation will be terminated within 21 days of the date of application for assistance;

(d) Lives in a hotel or motel and the cost of the hotel or motel stay is not paid by charitable organizations or by federal, State, or local government programs for low-income individuals;

(e)          Lives in a single-room occupancy or efficiency apartment unit in which there reside more than two persons, or lives in a larger housing unit in which there reside more than 1.5 people per room, as defined by the U.S. Census Bureau;

(f)           Is exiting a publicly funded institution, or system of care (such as a health-care facility, a mental health facility, foster care or other youth facility, or correction program or institution); or

(g)          Otherwise lives in housing that has characteristics associated with instability and an increased risk of homelessness, as identified in the recipient’s approved consolidated plan.

(2)          A child or youth who does not qualify as “homeless” under this section, but qualifies as “homeless” under section 387(3) of the Runaway and Homeless Youth Act (42 U.S.C. 5732a(3)), section 637(11) of the Head Start Act (42 U.S.C. 9832(11)), section 41403(6) of the Violence Against Women Act of 1994 (42 U.S.C. 14043e-2(6)), section 330(h)(5)(A) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 254b(h)(5)(A)), section 3(m) of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2012(m)), or section 17(b)(15) of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 1786(b)(15)); or

(3)          A child or youth who does not qualify as “homeless” under this section, but qualifies as “homeless” under section 725(2) of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 11434a(2)), and the parent(s) or guardian(s) of that child or youth if living with her or him.

3.    Fleeing, or attempting to flee, domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, stalking, or human trafficking

For HOME-ARP, this population includes any individual or family who is fleeing, or is attempting to flee, domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, stalking, or human trafficking. This population includes cases where an individual or family reasonably believes that there is a threat of imminent harm from further violence due to dangerous or life-threatening conditions that relate to violence against the individual or a family member, including a child, that has either taken place within the individual’s or family’s primary nighttime residence or has made the individual or family afraid to return or remain within the same dwelling unit. In the case of sexual assault, this also includes cases where an individual reasonably believes there is a threat of imminent harm from further violence if the individual remains within the same dwelling unit that the individual is currently occupying, or the sexual assault occurred on the premises during the 90-day period preceding the date of the request for transfer.

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Domestic violence, which is defined in 24 CFR 5.2003, includes felony or misdemeanor crimes of violence committed by:

  1. a current or former spouse or intimate partner of the victim (the term “spouse or intimate partner of the victim” includes a person who is or has been in a social relationship of a romantic or intimate nature with the victim, as determined by the length of the relationship, the type of the relationship, and the frequency of interaction between the persons involved in the relationship),
  2. a person with whom the victim shares a child in common, a person similarly situated to a spouse of the victim under the domestic or family violence laws of the jurisdiction receiving grant monies, a person who is cohabitating with or has cohabitated with the victim as a spouse or intimate partner, or any other person against an adult or youth victim who is protected from that person’s acts under the domestic or family violence laws of the jurisdiction.

Dating violence which is defined in 24 CFR 5.2003 means violence committed by a person:

  1. Who is or has been in a social relationship of a romantic or intimate nature with the victim; and
  2. Where the existence of such a relationship shall be determined based on a consideration of the following factors:
  3. The length of the relationship;
  4. The type of relationship; and
  5. The frequency of interaction between the persons involved in the relationship.

Sexual assault means any nonconsensual sexual act proscribed by Federal, Tribal, or State law, including when the victim lacks capacity to consent.

Stalking means engaging in a course of conduct directed at a specific person that would cause a reasonable person to:

  1. Fear for the person’s individual safety or the safety of others; or
  2. Suffer substantial emotional distress.

Human trafficking includes both sex and labor trafficking, as outlined in the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (TVPA), as amended (22 U.S.C. § 7102).  These are defined as:

  • Sex trafficking means the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, obtaining, patronizing, or soliciting of a person for the purpose of a commercial sex act, in which the commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such act has not attained 18 years of age; (and)
  • Labor trafficking means the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for labor or services, through the use of force, fraud, or coercion for the purpose of subjection to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery.

4.  Other Populations

This category is composed of individuals and families where providing supportive services or assistance would prevent the family’s homelessness or would serve those with the greatest risk of housing instability. HUD defines these populations as individuals and households who do not qualify under any of the populations above but meet one of the following criteria:

Read more...

(1) Other Families Requiring Services or Housing Assistance to Prevent Homelessness is defined as households (i.e., individuals and families) who have previously been qualified as “homeless” as defined in 24 CFR 91.5, are currently housed due to temporary or emergency assistance, including financial assistance, services, temporary rental assistance or some type of other assistance to allow the household to be housed, and who need additional housing assistance or supportive services to avoid a return to homelessness.
(2) At Greatest Risk of Housing Instability is defined as household who meets either paragraph (i) or (ii) below:

(i) has annual income that is less than or equal to 30% of the area median income, as determined by HUD and is experiencing severe cost burden (i.e., is paying more than 50% of monthly household income toward housing costs);

(ii) has annual income that is less than or equal to 50% of the area median income, as determined by HUD, AND meets one of the following conditions from paragraph (iii) of the “At risk of homelessness” definition established at 24 CFR 91.5:
(A) Has moved because of economic reasons two or more times during the 60 days immediately preceding the application for homelessness prevention assistance;
(B) Is living in the home of another because of economic hardship;
(C) Has been notified in writing that their right to occupy their current housing or living situation will be terminated within 21 days after the date of application for assistance;
(D) Lives in a hotel or motel and the cost of the hotel or motel stay is not paid by charitable organizations or by Federal, State, or local government programs for low-income individuals;
(E) Lives in a single-room occupancy or efficiency apartment unit in which there reside more than two persons or lives in a larger housing unit in which there reside more than 1.5 persons reside per room, as defined by the U.S. Census Bureau;
(F) Is exiting a publicly funded institution, or system of care (such as a health-care facility, a mental health facility, foster care or other youth facility, or correction program or institution); or
(G) Otherwise lives in housing that has characteristics associated with instability and an increased risk of homelessness, as identified in the recipient’s approved consolidated plan

Veterans and Families that include a Veteran Family Member that meet the criteria for one of the qualifying populations described above are eligible to receive HOME-ARP assistance.

General Information

For general information regarding the Consortium’s HOME-ARP, or to request special accommodations or translation services please contact:
CARES of NY, Inc.
gmattey@caresny.org