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Joint resolution to approve $420,058 in pass-through funding from the United States Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD) for Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH) Project.
Staff Summary
• The 2015-2019 Consolidated Plan HUD identifies the community need for increasing availability of PSH within its broader focus on increasing the supply of affordable housing, but this need remains substantially unmet.
• In May 2018, the Lake County Housing and Community Development Commission (HCDC) announced a special competitive application round for $420,058 in funding from the HUD. This funding in potential combination with a new round of state funding for PSH creates an opportunity to address this PSH gap in Lake County’s continuum of affordable housing options.
• At its meeting on July 11, 2018, the HCDC voted to request Lake County Board approval of $73,431 in 2018 Community Development Block Grant Funds (CDBG) and $346,627 in HOME Investment Partnership (HOME) Funds to be allocated to Over the Rainbow Association (OTR), an organization that specializes in providing housing and supportive services to clients with physical disabilities for its proposed project, Kirwan Apartments, in Waukegan, Illinois.
• This funding is contingent on receipt by OTR of PSH funding from the Illinois Housing Development Authority (IHDA). In the event IHDA funding is not awarded to OTR for Kirwan Apartments, the HCDC recommends the $420,058 be allocated to Housing Opportunity Development Corporation (HODC) for its Zion Woods Apartments in Deerfield that is intended to be half workforce housing and half supportive housing.
Body
RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) requires the submission of a Housing and Community Development Annual Action Plan every year; and
WHEREAS, on June 12, 2018 the Lake County Board approved a 2018 Annual Action Plan containing $420,058 available for permanent supportive housing project(s); and
WHEREAS, the Lake County Housing and Community Development Commission (HCDC) identified a substantially unmet need for permanent supportive housing (PSH) to be addressed in a special application round; and
WHEREAS, the Lake County HCDC recommends approval by the Lake County Board of 2018 HUD pass-thru grants totaling $420,058 to Over the Rainbow Association for new construction of Kirwan Apartments contingent on the awarding by the Illinois Housing Development Authority (IHDA) of additional PSH funding; and
WHEREAS, in the potential event that Over the Rainbow (OTR) Corporation does not receive PSH funding from IHDA, the Lake County HCDC recommends contingent approval by the Lake County Board of the same $420,058 pf 2018 HUD pass-thru grants to Housing Opportunity Development Corporation for its Zion Woods Apartments if it instead receives PSH funding from IHDA; and
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by this County Board of Lake County, Illinois, that the 2018 Action Plan that governs the use of federally-funded CDBG, HOME and ESG program funds from May 1, 2018, through April 30, 2019, is hereby approved; and
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Chairman of the Lake County Board or his designee is hereby authorized to execute a grant agreement as necessary to implement this approval with either non-profit organization based on meeting of contingency requirements.
DATED at Waukegan, Illinois, on this day of August 14, 2018.