BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR

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BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR
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Tapping into HUD Programs

• Pinch Hitter Peggy Meinl, Program Manager,
  Competitive Programs, HUD Buffalo Office
• Peggy.m.meinl_at_hud.gov
• 716-551-5755, ext. 5806

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Objectives

• Overview of HUD Bread Butter Programs
• Overview of American Recovery and Reinvestment
  Act Programs (ARRA)

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Types of HUD Funding

• Community Development Block Grant (CDBG)
• HOME Investment Partnerships Program
• Continuum of Care Programs (SHP/SPC)
• Public Housing Capital Funds Program
• CDBG/HOME State Administered
• Rural Housing Economic Development (RHED)
• Healthy Homes
• Emergency Shelter Grants (ESG)

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Eligible Grantees

• Entitlement Funding
• Units of Government
• States
• Counties
• Metro Cities/Towns
• Competitive Programs
• Non-Profit Agencies
• Units of Government
• Public Housing Authorities

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Entitlement Communities in Upstate

• Buffalo Rochester Syracuse Albany Utica
  Schenectady Niagara Falls Binghamton Troy
  Tonawanda - Jamestown Elmira Union - Rome -
  Auburn Cheektowaga - Irondequoit Ithaca
  Amherst Dunkirk Glens Falls Hamburg
  Greece Colonie Saratoga Springs
• Erie County/West Seneca Monroe County
  Onondaga County/Clay

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Dazzle Your Friends with Trivia

• Entitled Communities receive monies via a formula
  allocation
• Two methods to calculate the allocation and
  Community receives the larger amount of the
  formula
• Method 1 Based on Population
• Method 2 Based on Population, Low/Mod Status,
  Age of Housing Growth Lag Factor
• Buffalo is the 17th largest CDBG recipient

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Whats Eligible?

• Housing Rehabilitation
• Single Family
• Rental Properties
• Homeownership Assistance
• New Construction of Housing
• Public Services Education/Awareness Programs
• Economic Development
• Public Facilities/Infrastructure (Roads, Water,
  Sewer, Sidewalks)

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Whats Eligible? (cont.)

• Planning Activities
• Training
• Code Enforcement (Know the Local Building Codes)
  

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Benefits to Low/Mod People

• For CDBG Funds
• Satisfy a National Objective
• Low/Mod Housing
• Create Jobs
• Serve a Limited Clientele
• Slums Blight
• Urgent Need

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American Recovery Reinvestment Act (ARRA)

• Community Development Block Grant R (CDBG- R)
• Neighborhood Stabilization Program II ( NSP 2)
• Competitive
• Homeless Prevention Rapid Re-Housing Program
  (HPRP)
• No Physical Assest Improvement Money
• HOME Tax Credit Program
• Public Housing Capital Fund

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What are the ultimate goals of the programs?

• Preserve create jobs promoting Economic
  Recovery
• Assist those most impacted by the recession
• Provide investment needed to increase economic
  efficiency
• Invest in transportation, environmental
  protection, or other infrastructure that will
  provide long-term economic benefits
• Minimize or avoid reductions in essential
  services
• Foster energy independence, promote green
  technology

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Projects should

• Be able to start quickly
• Be labor intensive
• Create jobs where they are need
• Have a lasting benefit to our neighborhoods
• Retrofit housing to be more energy efficient
• Promote Green Jobs

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SPEND SPEND SPEND SPEND

• Intended to be a one time shot in the arm
• ARRA Money needs to be fully expended by
  September 30, 2012
• All funds remaining after this date will be
  returned to the Treasury
• 60 must be expended in two years
• Shovel Ready Projects are recommended
• Grantees must still comply with all timeliness
  standards or risk losing regular Entitlement
  allocations

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But Dont Waste Funds

• Intent is to stimulate the economy by creating
  permanent jobs as well as construction jobs
• Strictly prohibited are swimming pools, golf
  courses, zoos, aquariums, casinos/gambling
  facilities, assistance to professional sports
  teams, recreational facilities that serve
  predominately higher income persons.
• Positive projects, improving transportation,
  energy efficiency, projects that work in
  collaboration with other funding resources.

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Allocations for ARRA

• Formula for CDBG R is about one quarter of an
  annual CDBG Allocation
• HPRP funds are a minimum of 500,000. Grantees
  not reaching that threshold did not receive these
  funds. This calculation far exceeded ESG
  funding. 3 grantees have never received ESG
  funds in the past

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NSP - 2

• Competitive Program
• Request a minimum of 5,000,000
• Must address at least 100 units of housing
• Purpose To stabilize neighborhoods whose
  viability continues to be damaged by the economic
  effects of properties that have been foreclosed
  upon and abandoned.
• Applicants Government entities, public and
  private non-profits.

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Public Housing

• 4 Billion earmarked for energy efficiency and
  modernization of our Nations Public Housing
• Capital Fund Improvements Only
• Construct replacement housing
• Purchase land for construction
• Conduct Energy Audits
• Expand or expedite capital improvments

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1005 Glendale Place, Schenectady, NY
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What Makes this Home Unique?

• Affordable subsidies in partnership with HUD
  funding, City of Schenectady and Community Land
  Trust
• Green recycled materials such as carpeting made
  from water bottles, bamboo flooring
• LEED Certified The first Leadership in Energy
  Environmental Design (LEED) Certified Platinum
  Home in NYS
• Sustainable Energy Efficient Materials
• Water Savings Indoor Environmental Quality

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• Universal Design
• Energy Conservation Renewable Energy will
  generate up to 40 60 of its own electric and
  hot water needs.
• Historic design to fit into the neighborhood.

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How Do I Get Involved?

• Entitlement Money contact your local Community
  Development Office
• New York State DHCR for non-entitled areas
• Public Hearings/Citizen Participation
  Requirements
• Consolidated/Annual Plan
• Request for Proposals
• Local Representatives

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Other Things to Know

• When Are the Public Hearings Held?
• How Are Proposals Accepted?
• Who Administers the Housing Programs?
• What is the Housing Program Design?
• What is the Cycle for Proposals?
• Who Do I Contact?
• Every Community is Different
• What are the Funding Limits?

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Competitive Programs

• Must Get a Community Interested in Applying for
  Funding
• Must Get a Non-Profit Interested in Funding

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NYS Small Cities (CDBG)

• NYS received 48,803,770 in CDBG funding
• Publishes two NOFAs
• 16M was set aside for Economic Development
  Activities
• Remainder is used for Comprehensive,
  Housing-related, Micro-Enterprise, Public
  Facility Grants
• Average grants are between 400,000-600,000
• Check website for publication dates.

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Rural Housing Economic Development (RHED)

• National Competition
• Bundled with the Super NOFA Package usually
  published in January/February/March
• 26,000,000 available in 2009
• Maximum of 300,000
• Very flexible regarding eligible activities
• Application deadline May 29th

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Important Websites

• Hud.gov/recovery
• Grants.gov
• Hud.gov
• Hudclips.org
• www.huduser.org/datasets/pdrdatas.html
• Fair Market Rents
• Income Guidelines
• USPS Vacancy Data
• A Data Nerds Paradise
• www.access.gpo.gov
• (Code of Federal Regulations CFR)

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Other Resources

• U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)
• Syracuse Office 315-477-6400
• www.rurdev.usda.gov/ny/
• Home Repair Loans Grants
• NYS Division of Housing Community Renewal
  (DHCR)
• Tom Carey
• Albany Office 518-486-5012
• www.dhcr.state.ny.us