Background:
The Housing and Community Development Department (HCDD) recommends Council approval of an Ordinance authorizing the Mayor or Mayor’s designee to execute an amendment to contract No. 19-076-008-B357 with the Texas General Land Office (GLO) for the Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery for the 2016 Flood Events (CDBG-DR16).
Council authorized the Mayor to execute the contract for $23,486,698.00 of CDBG-DR16 on February 19, 2019 to fund a housing buyout program to purchase single family or multifamily homes. In March 2021, Council authorized the Mayor to execute a contract amendment to revise the Performance Statement to reflect a multifamily-only buyout program and perform other administrative language changes.
This contract amendment will update the following:
- Extend the agreement term from April 30, 2022 to April 30, 2023
- Revise the Performance Statement, including the addition of low- and moderate-income area benefit as a National Objective and information about the estimated number served
- Revise contract language as required by the GLO
This grant is used to carry out the Multifamily Voluntary Buyout Program, and guidelines for this program were approved by Council and reviewed by the GLO in 2019. HCDD, in coordination with Houston Public Works, identified multifamily residential properties that were impacted by the 2016 Flood Events for proposed buyout to remove housing from the floodplain and prevent future housing development on the property to eliminate future housing flood risk. Three multifamily properties have been acquired using CDBG-DR16. After relocation of the tenants is completed, the City will demolish the buildings.
No Fiscal Note is required on grant items.
This item was reviewed by the Housing and Community Affairs Committee on November 16, 2021.
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Keith W. Bynam, Director