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CITY OF HOUSTON - CITY COUNCIL
Meeting Date: 12/19/2023
ALL
Item Creation Date: 9/11/2023
HCD23-90 Amended Home Repair Program Guidelines (1 of 3)
Agenda Item#: 30.
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| | | | | | | | Summary:
ORDINANCE approving and authorizing amendments to City’s Home Repair Program Guidelines, authorized pursuant to Ordinance No. 2018-22, as amended by Ordinance No. 2020-115, to increase the maximum project Cost Cap to address additional site-specific costs and revise provisions regarding construction standards, criteria for eligibility withdrawal and reinstatement, duplication of benefits, affordability periods, and property transfer in the event of death |
| | | | | | | | Background:
The Housing and Community Development Department (HCD) recommends Council approval of an Ordinance authorizing amending the Single-Family Home Repair Program (HRP) Guidelines (with version 1.8), to revise provisions regarding the construction standards; administrative withdrawal criteria; assistance levels; homeowner voluntary withdrawal and reinstatement criteria; eligibility requirements; procurement; death of a homeowner; and a general reduction of affordability periods’ duration. No additional funding.
The objective of the City of Houston’s (City) HRP is to ease life, health, and/or safety hazards resulting from substandard conditions in homes owned and occupied by low and moderate-income homeowners. The City will use Community Development Block Grant (CDBG), Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery Funds 2015 (CDBG-DR15), if applicable and Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone (TIRZ) funding to provide HRP assistance to qualified homeowners.
Among other things, version 1.8 of the HRP Guidelines reflect the adjustments to cost thresholds (inclusive of approved change orders) of the Level of Assistance, substantially in the form of the following table (and related textual amendments):
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Assistance Levels
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Cost of Repairs
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Affordability Period
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Percentage forgiven annually
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Emergency & Minor Repairs – Tier I
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<$50,000.00
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None
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Not Applicable
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Moderate & Substantial Rehabilitation – Tier II
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>$50,000.01 to $80,000.00
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5 years
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20%
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Substantial Gut Rehabilitation – Tier III
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>$80,000.01 to $200,000.00
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10 years
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10%
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Reconstruction – Tier III
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>$80,000.01 to $250,000.00
(With Director approval, additional funding up to $50,000.00 may be available only for site-specific costs, not included in the base costs, due to homeowner association requirements, deed restrictions, accessibility enhancements, and asbestos remediation or other environmental issues or health and safety hazards for reconstruction projects only)
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10 years
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10%
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Prior Version 1.7 of the table reflecting Levels of Assistance:
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Level of Assistance
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Cost of Repairs
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Affordability Period
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Percentage of total assistance forgiven annually
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Minor Rehabilitation/ Emergency Repair – Tier I
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<$20,000
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None
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0%
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Moderate Rehabilitation – Tier II
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$20,000 to $40,000
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5-year
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20%
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Substantial Rehabilitation – Tier II
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$40,001 to $80,000
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10-year
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10%
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Reconstruction/Substantial Gut Rehabilitation – Tier III
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$80,001 to $200,000
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20-year
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5%
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This item was reviewed by the Housing and Community Affairs Committee on September 19, 2023.
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Keith W. Bynam, Director |
| | | | | | | | Prior Council Action:
04/09/2012 (O) 2012-334; 01/24/2018 (O) 2018-056; 1/31/2018 (O) 2018-67; 12/16/2020 (O) 2020-1094 |
| | | | | | | | Contact Information:
Roxanne Lawson
(832) 394-6307 |
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