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Overview
Guidelines Review•Housing and Essential Needs•Targeted Prevention•Assessments, Stability Plans, and Rent Subsidies•Certifications and InspectionsSeeking Your Input•Webinars •Fall Forum
What’s different with the Housing and Essential Needs Program
HEN Referral•DSHS now makes 12 month referrals•Suggest checking BVS monthly to review HEN Referral eligibility
What’s different with the Housing and Essential Needs Program
Housing Stability Plans•Required minimum, developed collaboratively with HH
Homeless Homeless or At RiskMust address immediate barriers to obtain housing (income, criminal, credit, rental history)
Must address barriers to maintain housing stability (ability to pay rent, follow lease)
Plan identifies amount and duration of rent subsidy, needed services and referrals, goals and action steps.
What’s different with the Housing and Essential Needs Program
Income Eligibility•Review income eligibility every 3 monthsContinued Eligibility – what do you do?•Over AMI but still in HEN Referral•Under AMI but lost HEN Referral
What’s different with the Housing and Essential Needs Program
Friends & Family •Certification of Payment Obligation / Potential Eviction from Friends Family Utility Only Assistance
What’s different with the Housing and Essential Needs Program
Landlord Certification or Inspections•Required for HEN clients moving into a unit
Targeted Prevention: What is it?
• Prioritized based on a standardized, evidence-based assessment for risk of homelessness.
• An important part of your coordinated entry system.
• Reduce homelessness, without spending a lot of time and money on people who would never become homeless.
Targeted Prevention: Requirements
• Required with CHG, as of January 1, 2014.
• Commerce has provided a tool – available on CHG website.
• You don’t have to use our tool, but you must do something similar.
Targeted Prevention: Challenges traditional beliefs about homelessness
Mythical predictors of homelessness
Factual risk factors for homelessness
At or below 50% AMI At or below 15% AMI
Receive an eviction notice Past homelessness
Pay > 30% of their income toward rent
Pay > 65% of their income toward rent
Have a disability Under 30 and pregnant or parenting a young child
Targeted Prevention: Transforming your prevention program
Traditional prevention Targeted prevention
Help those most likely to succeed Help those most likely to become homeless
Limit services per HH once a year HH helped as needed
Preference to HH that have not been helped before (to be “fair”)
Preference to HH who have been in your homeless system before (reduce returns!)
Provide fixed amount of subsidy based on household or unit type
Amount of subsidy based on HH needs and availability of other resources
Targeted Prevention: Conference workshop
B1 – 9:00 a.m. Thursday
Strategic Use of Community Resources: Homeless Diversion and Prevention Programs
Assessments
An assessment is required for each household to identify:•Immediate barriers to obtaining permanent housing, and•Barriers to maintaining permanent housing stability.
Housing Stability Plans
This assessment informs a Housing Stability Plan to include:•The amount and duration of rent subsidy,•Services and referrals addressing barriers, •Housing and self-sufficiency goals, and•Action steps, including completion dates, leading to housing stability.
Rent Subsidy
Percent of Household Income
OR
Percent of the Rent
AND
Household share should increase based on goals or steps and adjusted overtime as necessary
Example of Rent Subsidy
Percentage of Income:Monthly Recertification of Household Income Percentage Range
Monthly Gross Income Percentof Income
Rent Range
TANF - 700 35% 0-280 700-1000 40% 280-400
1000-1400 45% 450-630 1400-2000 50% 700-1000 2000-2400 55% 1,100-1,320
2,400+ 60% to full rent 1,548+
Example of Rent Subsidy
• Percentage of rent:Level Months in
Program% of Rent
Level 1 0-3 Months 30% of rentLevel 2 3-6 Months 50% of rentLevel 3 6-9 Months 65% of rentLevel 4 9-12 Months 80% of rent
Certifications and Inspections – CHG standard, EFH, and HEN
RENTCertifications, Inspections, Lead-Based Paint Visual Assessment •Family/Friend Certification •Landlord Certification•Inspections•Lead-based paint visual assessment
Certifications and Inspections – CHG standard, EFH, and HEN
General Requirements•Required for all units households will be moving into•Visual assessment required for all units•Completed before subsidy paid•Procedures to address household concerns and inspections
Certifications and Inspections – CHG standard, EFH, and HEN
Friend/Family Certification•Certification of Payment Obligation/ Potential Eviction from Friend/Family form•Certification of safe and habitable housing
Certifications and Inspections – CHG standard, EFH, and HEN
Landlord Certification•Landlord Habitability Standards Certification Form•Landlord Tenant Act•Valid for household tenancy or 12 months if new household in same unit
Certifications and Inspections – CHG standard, EFH, and HEN
INSPECTIONS•Use in addition to or in lieu of landlord certification•Commerce Housing Habitability Standards (HHS) form OR•HUD Housing Quality Standards (HQS)•Other inspections
Certifications and Inspections – CHG standard, EFH, and HEN
FACILITY SUPPORTInspections, Assessment•Inspection and lead-based paint visual assessment•Once per year•Occupancy > 90 days, < 2 years•Commerce Housing Habitability Standards (HHS) form OR•HUD Housing Quality Standards (HQS)