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CITY OF HOUSTON - CITY COUNCIL

Meeting Date: 12/12/2017
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Item Creation Date: 11/16/2017

HCD17-116 Substantial Amendments to 2014 and 2017 Action Plans

Agenda Item#: 16.


 
                               
Summary:

ORDINANCE amending City of Houston Ordinance Nos. 2014-337 passed April 23, 2014, as amended; and 2017-516 passed July 19, 2017, which authorized the submission of the  2014 and 2017 Annual Action Plans, including the applications/budgets for the  Housing Opportunities for Persons With AIDS Grant, among others to the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development

Background:

The City of Houston (City), through its Housing and Community Development Department (HCDD), is proposing to amend the Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS (HOPWA) Program Summary Budgets under the 2014 and 2017 Annual Action Plans.

 

In accordance with HUD’s Citizen Participation Plan regulations, the City is required to amend components of its Consolidated Plan/Annual Action Plan for a variety of reasons, including when a reallocation of funds increases or decreases the budget of an activity by more than 25%.

 

The following Amendments to the HOPWA Budget are necessary to reallocate funds for Project or Tenant Based Rental Assistance and Short Term Rent Mortgage and Utility.

 

Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS (HOPWA)

Budget Year Amended

Activity

Budget Decrease

Budget Increase

2014

Resource Identification/Technical Assistance/Housing Information

(120,921.00)

2014

Project or Tenant Based Rental Assistance

120,921.00

2017

Project or Tenant Based Rental Assistance

(500,000)

2017

Short-term Rent, Mortgage, & Utility Subsidies

500,000.00

 

Total HOPWA Budget Changes:

(620,921.00)

620,921.00

 

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Tom McCasland, Director

 

Contact Information:

Roxanne Lawson

Phone: 832.394.6307

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