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Council on Homelessness Affordable Housing Committee Call Minutes Thursday, September 28, 2017 at 10:00 a.m. PARTICIPANTS:Erik Braun, Office on HomelessnessTayler LeMaster, Office on HomelessnessBill Aldinger, Florida Housing CoalitionWarren Davis, CareerSource FLShannon Nazworth, Ability Housing Patricia Boswell, FL DOHDianna Moore, EscaRosa Coalition on the HomelessLynn Hodges, United Way Suwannee ValleyIsabelle Potts, FL Department of Economic OpportunityAGENDA DISCUSSIONBill Aldinger:Issues or recommendations the Committee will bring to the full Council regarding:Erik Braun – CoC/VA call 9-27-17 had a significant discussion re: main issues of Irma; will highlight items during the next quarterly meeting in December and on the 2018 annual report.Patricia Boswell – We staff special needs shelters during hurricanes. Due to the flooding, a lot of people have lost homes and FEMA has put them in hotels for one week. There is an issue of long term displacement for people who were not homeless but living paycheck to paycheck.Lynn Hodges – We have Challenge Grant and ESG funding – can we spend additional money for those who have been displaced by the storm? I’ll check with our housing authority and call re: funding.Skip Forsyth – Will try to get an idea of what the districts are dealing with post-storm. The panhandle area is still getting evacuees from Hurricane Harvey. Asking the schools to identify students that have been displaced and homeless and to make note of which storm that displaced them since there are possible federal funds available.Warren Davis – FL Dept. of Economic Opportunity is doing outreach survey for migrant farm workers in the central FL area and can be a resource for this population. Department has opened up a hotline re: employment elsewhere if working people were displaced.Isabelle Potts – If anyone needs information re: the previous discussion please contact me. Have a regional dislocated worker grant for the entire peninsula that will allow laid-off people get temporary employment and some repair on housing for those who are eligible.Irma Disaster Recovery – Bill Aldinger3,400 households were displaced all but about 10 are back on the site. Majority of damage for 19 developments was water damage.Worked with all referral agencies who have special needs clients in the units.FL Housing contracts with Social Serve to manage the affordable housing locator – services online searches. Contracted with them after Irma to implement their disaster services package – they do intensive and frequent updating of all landlords that are registered in the Locator to check their unit availability. They work with FEMA to recruit landlords that are not registered with the Locator. They’ve also worked through storms Harvey and Matthew.Sent out information re: and the call center re: available units in counties that were impacted.Any landlords FEMA finds are being funneled to Social Serve to add to their registry.ACTION ITEM: Bill Aldinger to put together a one-two pager re: discussion today with resources/links that can be shared with Executive Committee and the CouncilThe Affordable Housing Workgroup that was mandated by the 2017 Legislature2016 Legislature mandated and authorized a short-term Affordable Housing workgroup. Must be recommendations on issues with Affordable Housing [land use, etc.] and report approved by the Board and submitted to legislature and govern by January 1.Having four [4] workgroup meeting – Shannon is Governor Appointee as chair. Two meetings so far – 8/30 and 9/27 in Orlando. Covered on FL Channel with livestream, including issues around housing for homeless.Agenda items that have been covered are overview of building codes, local government impact fees, permanent housing for homeless households, and interview of state’s implementation of all rental programs to see if workgroup would have any recommendations.Expert presenters speaking about housing inventory and needs re: affordable housing. Discussion comparing funding tenant based vouchers; permanent supportive housing pilot; local SHIP resources; advocate for full funding of local and state government trust funds; national research around affordable housing – National House Study.ACTION ITEM: Bill will be providing a more condensed packet around a week before the in-person council meeting in December.Funding opportunities for financing permanent housing for homeless households2017-2018 Request for Application funding cycles.Put out a RFA Development Liability Funding to help with gaps due to decrease equity of housing tax credits. Sent to Board and selected applicants were approved.Workforce Housing RFA issued today providing 41 million in sale and 10 million in credit equity housing issues for people to live in communities where they work.In the spring, persons with special needs and homeless households will have RFA’s issued in February or March. 18.2 million in sale from the state trust fund and RFA for non-profit applicants. The focus is on permanent supportive housing development. 25% is set aside for low-income special needs households.Applicant must be non-profit in order to distribute financing around the state. Each funding year is spread through four areas. Central and West Florida will have preference and prioritize this year. Call Adjourned at 10:54 a.m. ................
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