CR-05 - Goals and Outcomes

[Pages:37]CR-05 - Goals and Outcomes

Progress the jurisdiction has made in carrying out its strategic plan and its action plan. 91.520(a) This could be an overview that includes major initiatives and highlights that were proposed and executed throughout the program year.

The City of Duluth 2021 Program year began on April 1, 2021 and ended on March 31, 2022. During this year, the community transitioned from the pandemic state that was declared by the Presidential on March 13, 2020 to a hybrid environment, where people changed their living and work habits to deal with the impacts resulting from the coronavirus pandemic. During the pandemic, the City of Duluth was awarded additional $1,927,758 in CDBG and $2,972,199 in ESG funding from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, also known as the CARES Act, to assist people negatively impacted by the pandemic. The City was able to use these "CV" funds to provide assistance to over 9000 people, a spreadsheet is attached to Administrative Section of the CAPER to provide an overview of these programs and the people who were assisted. Not all the CV funding has been spent, therefore will be additional accomplishments reported next year. It appears that the CV funding will help the city meet and exceed some of the strategic goals. To minimize confusion, the chart below shows only the accomplishments that was achieved with the Entitlement Funding. City Staff is attaching another spreadsheet that includes the CV results for Strategic Plan.

Comparison of the proposed versus actual outcomes for each outcome measure submitted with the consolidated plan and explain, if applicable, why progress was not made toward meeting goals and objectives. 91.520(g) Categories, priority levels, funding sources and amounts, outcomes/objectives, goal outcome indicators, units of measure, targets, actual outcomes/outputs, and percentage completed for each of the grantee's program year goals.

Goal

Affordable Housing

Category

Affordable Housing

Source / Indicator Amount

CDBG: $ / HOME: $

Rental units constructed

Unit of Measure

Household Housing Unit

Expected ? Strategic Plan

Actual ? Strategic Plan

Percent Complete

Expected ? Program Year

Actual ? Program Year

Percent Complete

250

72

28.80%

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Affordable Housing

Affordable Housing

Affordable Housing Affordable Housing Affordable Housing

Childcare Access

Create Living Wage Jobs

Food Access

Affordable Housing

Affordable Housing

Affordable Housing

Affordable Housing

Affordable Housing

Non-Housing Community Development

Non-Housing Community Development

Non-Housing Community Development

CDBG: $ / HOME: $ CDBG: $ / HOME: $ CDBG: $ / HOME: $ CDBG: $ / HOME: $ CDBG: $ / HOME: $

CDBG: $

Rental units rehabilitated

Homeowner Housing Added

Homeowner Housing Rehabilitated

Housing for Homeless added

Housing for People with HIV/AIDS added

Public service activities other than Low/Moderate Income Housing Benefit

Household Housing Unit Household Housing Unit Household Housing Unit Household Housing Unit Household Housing Unit

Persons Assisted

CDBG: $ Businesses assisted

Businesses Assisted

CDBG: $

Public service activities other than Low/Moderate Income Housing Benefit

Persons Assisted

500 50 500 0 0 500 70 85250

70

14.00% 40

16

32.00% 1

81

100

16.20%

0

0

0

0

150

30.00% 120

36

51.43% 48

42051 49.33% 15625

59

147.50%

8

800.00%

63 63.00%

0

0

70

58.33%

20

41.67%

21464 137.37%

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Food Access

Non-Housing Community Development

Health Services

Non-Housing Community Development

Health Services

Non-Housing Community Development

Homelessness Homeless

Homelessness Homeless Homelessness Homeless

CDBG: $

Homeless Person Overnight Shelter

CDBG: $

CDBG: $

CDBG: $ / HOME: $ / ESG: $ CDBG: $ / HOME: $ / ESG: $ CDBG: $ / HOME: $ / ESG: $

Public Facility or Infrastructure Activities other than Low/Moderate Income Housing Benefit Public service activities other than Low/Moderate Income Housing Benefit Public service activities for Low/Moderate Income Housing Benefit

Tenant-based rental assistance / Rapid Rehousing

Homeless Person Overnight Shelter

Persons Assisted

0

Persons Assisted

0

Persons Assisted

1000

Households Assisted

15000

Households Assisted

270

Persons Assisted

8150

0 0 0 10330 39 3943

0 20000

0.00% 68.87% 3562 14.44% 69 48.38% 1720

0 0

6247 11 1870

0.00%

175.38% 15.94% 108.72%

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Homelessness

Homelessness

Increase Incomes Increase Incomes

Infrastructure Improvements

Neighborhood Revitalization

Homeless

Homeless

Non-Housing Community Development

Non-Housing Community Development Non-Homeless Special Needs Non-Housing Community Development

Non-Housing Community Development

CDBG: $ / HOME: $ / ESG: $ CDBG: $ / HOME: $ / ESG: $

CDBG: $

CDBG: $

CDBG: $

CDBG: $

Homelessness Prevention

Persons Assisted

Other

Other

Public service activities other than Low/Moderate Income Housing Benefit

Persons Assisted

Jobs created/retained Jobs

Public Facility or Infrastructure Activities other than Low/Moderate Income Housing Benefit Public Facility or Infrastructure Activities other than Low/Moderate Income Housing Benefit

Persons Assisted

Persons Assisted

26

44

0

0

200

130

0

0

1000 0

0

0

169.23% 50

18

406

176

65.00%

190

175

0.00%

5986 0

36.00% 43.35% 92.11%

0.00%

CAPER

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Public service

Neighborhood Revitalization

Non-Housing Community Development

CDBG: $

activities other than Low/Moderate Income Housing

Persons Assisted

0

0

75

0

Benefit

Neighborhood

Non-Housing Community

CDBG: $ Buildings Demolished Buildings

5

0

7

0

Revitalization Development

0.00%

Public Services

Homeless Non-Housing Community Development

CDBG: $

Public service activities other than Low/Moderate Income Housing Benefit

Persons Assisted

17500 4842

27.67% 1225

175

Affordable

Housing

Staff Administration

Public Housing Homeless Non-Homeless Special Needs Non-Housing

CDBG: $ / HOME: $ / ESG: $

Other

Other

1

1

100.00% 1

1

Community

Development

Transportation Access

Non-Homeless Special Needs Non-Housing Community Development

CDBG: $

Public Facility or Infrastructure Activities other than Low/Moderate Income Housing Benefit

Persons Assisted

50

0

0.00%

Table 1 - Accomplishments ? Program Year & Strategic Plan to Date

0.00% 0.00% 14.29%

100.00%

CAPER

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Assess how the jurisdiction's use of funds, particularly CDBG, addresses the priorities and specific objectives identified in the plan, giving special attention to the highest priority activities identified.

Housing continues to be a major concern in Duluth, as public agencies who assist people experiencing homelessness a other housing crises lack affordable housing units within the City. The vacancy rate is usually under 4% for market rate rentals and under 1% for public housing, restricting renter options and creating pent up demand. [In 2021, the city's vacancy rate for public housing was 4.25% and the overall vacancy rate for rental units was 2.1%. Because the options for affordable rental units are so few, the waiting list for subsidized housing averaged over 1,000 people during 2021.] The City recently approved the Imagine Duluth 2035 Comprehensive Plan to in part address housing and will work closely with housing agencies, sub-recipients, and the Housing and Redevelopment Authority of Duluth to achieve the goals listed in the 20202024 Consolidated Plan and subsequent Annual Action Plans. A primary focus will be the construction of new affordable rental units and housing rehabilitation.

The COVID-19 pandemic and supply chain delays continued to delay several construction projects in 2021, but the city was able to begin catching up on housing projects that had been postponed in 2020. The newly completed Decker Dwellings project added 42 affordable units to Duluth's rental stock. Two rental building rehabilitation projects that had been postponed in 2020 were completed in 2022, adding a total of 48 units to the city's stock. All told, the city added 212 units to its stock in 2022. Rehabilitation work also continued or began on 90 additional units. Housing is and will continue to be addressed in the Actions Plans. In addition, Burke and Redruth were able to complete rehab, resulting in 38 rehab units for very low income households.

CAPER

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CR-10 - Racial and Ethnic composition of families assisted

Describe the families assisted (including the racial and ethnic status of families assisted). 91.520(a)

CDBG

HOME

White

11,562

27

Black or African American

2,830

28

Asian

163

0

American Indian or American Native

5,595

22

Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander

33

0

Total

20,183

77

Hispanic

39

0

Not Hispanic

20,144

77

Table 2 ? Table of assistance to racial and ethnic populations by source of funds

ESG 1,147 364 10 598 7 2,126 0 2,126

Narrative

The information in the above chart is not complete and does not accurately represent the population. Due to a computer system error in the IDIS system, the chart does not list: American Indian/Alaska Native & White; Asian & White; Black/African American & White; American Indian/Alaska Native & White; and Other Multi-Racial information. In addition, the ESG demographics have not been fully represented due to this issue. For the entitlement funding, there were 32,673 people served. The additional CV funds were used to provide assistance to 8933 people, the racial data is also not represented in the chart above.

According to the 2016-2019 American Community Survey the racial demographic breakdown in Duluth is 89.7% White, 2.3% Black or African American, 1.8% American Indian or American Native, 1.6% Asian or Pacific Islander and the remaining percentage is people who are other race or more than one race. CDBG and HOME funds assisted the racial and ethnic groups with the percentages: 54% White, 21% Black or African American, and 23% American Indian or American Native; and less than 1% of funds assisted other racial groups.

CAPER

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CR-15 - Resources and Investments 91.520(a)

Identify the resources made available

Source of Funds

Source

Resources Made Available

CDBG

public - federal

27,172,495

HOME

public - federal

565,149

ESG

public - federal

206,941

Table 3 - Resources Made Available

Amount Expended During Program Year

3,549,369

610,751

172,900

Narrative

For the CDBG and HOME funds, more funds were expended then what was received for the 2021 Action Plan. The reason for this difference is that the multifamily development and rehab projects (ie- Decker Dwelling, Burk Apartments, Reduth Apartments, and Birchwood) were received 2020 funds, but due to COVID stalled. These projects were completed in the spring of 2022, therefore the allocated funds were also spent in the spring of 2022. CR-15 does not include the CV funds, of which an additional $1,927,758 in CDBG-CV was allocated to the City and as of this date, $1,559,432.57 has been spent and $369,325.43 remains. These funds are planned to be spent in 2022. An addtional $1,972,199 of ESG-CV funds was allocated to the City; $1,234,935.12 has been spent; and the remaining $737,263.88 is allocated to be spent during the summer of 2022. The activies associated to the CV funds are attached in the Administration Section of the CAPER.

Identify the geographic distribution and location of investments

Target Area

Planned Percentage of Actual Percentage of

Allocation

Allocation

Narrative Description

Table 4 ? Identify the geographic distribution and location of investments

Narrative

Funds were appropriately spent for the 2021 Program Year. Although the amount expended on Public Services exceeded the 15% limitation, it was allowable due to the overage being allocated towards CBDO agencies. SOAR Career Solutions and Life House are qualified Community Based Development Organizatiosn (CBDO) that conducts job training activities under the Economic Development category. Projects High-Demand, Living-Wage Job Training Program received $190,139 and Futures Program recived $50,037 to conduct job training . Under the HUD regulations 24 CFR 570.204, CBDO's are exempted from the HUD Public Service Cap, therefore ($240,176) is exempted from the CDBG cap.

CAPER

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