Housing Opportunities for Persons With AIDS HOPWA

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• Housing Opportunities for Persons With AIDS
  (HOPWA)
• 2005 Competition
• April 5, 2005

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Todays Broadcast - 2005 Overview

• Renewal of Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH)
  Grants
• New Permanent Housing Projects in Non-Formula
  Areas
• SPNS Demonstration Grants for Transitional
  Projects

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Todays Broadcast - 2005 NOFA Learning Objectives

• Electronic submissions
• Threshold Reviews on PSH Renewals
• Rating Criteria for New and Continuing Projects
• Leveraging requirements

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HOPWA Program Purpose

• To provide states and localities with the
  resources and incentives to devise long-term
  comprehensive strategies for meeting the housing
  and related supportive service needs of
  low-income persons with HIV/AIDS.

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HOPWA Client Outcomes

• HOPWA resources are used to assist low-income
  persons living with HIV/AIDS and their families
  establish or maintain stable housing, reduce
  their risks of homelessness and improve their
  access to healthcare and other support.

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2005 Available Funding

• Formula Grants in 122 St/local 251 million
• National Technical Assistance 2 million
• This Competition 37 million (includes 9
  million in FY2004)

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Sec. I Description with Definitions

• Includes Permanent Housing (legal rights to
  continued occupancy)
• PH projects show at least 51 of funds dedicated
  to this purpose
• For expiring grants (in FY05 or by 9/21/06) by
  term of grant agreement

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Sec. I Description with Definitions

• SPNS Demonstration Grants (Transitional,
  Short-term or Emergency housing efforts that lead
  to Permanent Housing at the end of the grant)
• Transitional Housing involves housing intended
  to facilitate movement of clients to permanent
  housing within 24 months

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Sec. II Award Information -

• Awards for 3 year performance contracts
• potential for renewal of PSH projects but not for
  SPNS demo TH grants
• max. grant amount at 1.43 million
• 30-36 grants expected to be awarded

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Sec. III Eligibility

• Covers eligibility
• As Renewals
• As New and Continuing Applicants
• As Non-Profit applicants or sponsors

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Sec. III Eligibility

• Describes 11 program requirements
• performance output and outcome goals
• use of the logic model
• agreements on maintaining permanent housing
• obligation of grant funds
• development and operational benchmarks

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Performance Goals - Outputs for Housing
Assistance

• Number of housing units or households assisted
  during each of 3 years of grant operations
• Commitments detailed in the new budget form for
  the grant and for each sponsor

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Performance Goals - Client Outcomes

• Achieving housing stability, reduced risks of
  homelessness, and improved access to healthcare
  and other support
• Annual housing assessment

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Eligible Activities for Renewals

• Approved current activities with on-going costs,
  e.g. rental assistance
• Includes operating costs for facilities or
  community residences developed in the original
  grant
• No new activities or new housing sites or
  development

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Eligible Activities for All Applicants

• PH focus with efforts to access mainstream
  services
• Limits on services (35) other healthcare
  limits apply, e.g. not funding medications
• Grantee Project Sponsor administrative costs
  include data collection evaluation efforts for
  annual reporting

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Eligible Activities for All Applicants

• Defines Permanent Housing Placement Services to
  include application fees, credit reviews,
  reasonable security deposits not exceeding 2
  months
• Does not include other move-in items e.g.
  furniture, unit repairs (which may be leveraged)

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Sec. IV Application and Submission Requirements

• Grants.gov process for electronic submission
• help at
• support_at_grants.gov
• 800-518-GRANTS

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Sec. IV Application and Submission Requirements

• Documents in e-grants or electronic facsimile
• SF-424 Survey,
• Logic Model,
• Con Plan Cert,
• Cert on RC/EZ/EC-II if applicable,
• Disclosures Lobbying, and
• App receipt comments.

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Sec. IV Application and Submission Requirements

• HOPWA Application Budget (2-part form)
  Certifications
• Narratives for each section
• Proof of Nonprofit status of applicants and
  sponsors (except renewals with the same project
  team)
• Documentation of leveraging

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Sec. IV Application and Submission Requirements

• Scanned copies or electronic facsimile (see
  General Sec. IV.F)
• Only attachments, such as leveraging letters,
  certifications, nonprofit status documentation
• With cover form HUD-96011

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Sec. IV Application and Submission Requirements

• HOPWA NOFA Application Submission Date for All
  Types
• May 27, 2005
• Waiver of e-grant (April 28) for cause (see
  General Sec. IV.F)
• Copy of materials at Grants.gov
• Submission date corrected on slide

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Eligible Applicants/Sponsors

• Long-term Projects in Non-formula Areas (LT)
• Only States and local governments
• Special Projects of National Significance (SPNS)
• States and local governments
• Non-profit organizations

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Grant Size --1.3 million

• Maximum grant for proposed activities with tie to
  current BLI for renewals 100 up to 120 with
  leveraging
• Add administrative costs (includes data
  collections reporting), up to 3 Grantee up
  to 7 Project Sponsors

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Eligible Activities Limits

• Defined activities with housing outputs in budget
  form with descriptions in narratives (not
  allowing for future RFP)
• Housing Assistance with focus on PH or linkages
  to PH
• through housing subsidies
• in housing facilities and community residences

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Outreach to Special Populations (not a rating
criteria)

• Veterans
• Chronically Homeless and/or other homeless
  persons

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Supportive Services

• With limit at 35 of program activities
• Not including medications
• Leveraging of other mainstream service funds (tie
  to BLI for renewals or rating criteria for new
  projects)

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Housing Information Other Services

• Information for clients on available housing
• Not additional Resource Identification/Technical
  Assistance (see national TA support) and
• No personal items, entertainment, financial
  assistance, vehicles

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Housing Assistance

• In Facility-based Housing
• Acquisition new construction
• Lease
• Rehabilitation
• Operating Costs for housing

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Housing Assistance

• In Housing Subsidies
• Tenant-based rental assistance
• Short-term rent, mortgage, and utility payments

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Application Budget Summary (all applicants) Form
HUD-40110-B (10/2004)
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Detailed Project Budget and Housing Outputs (each
organization)Form HUD-40110-B (10/2004)
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Example Sponsor of Community Residence
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Questions Answers
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Sec. V Application Review Information

• Threshold reviews for expiring PSH renewals
• Competitive Rating Ranking for New Continuing
  Applications

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Threshold Review for Renewal Applications

• Permanent supportive housing projects under prior
  HOPWA award
• Must show measurable progress in meeting
  requirements and
• Avoid weak performance, such as not expending
  more than 50 of funds by submission date (May
  27)

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Renewal Applications

• Grants now expiring under grant agreement terms
• Same team of organizations (unless change of
  sponsor is justified and new sponsor has
  sufficient capacity, a minimum of 14 of 20
  points)

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Renewal Applications

• Updated plans and goals to be achieved
• Renewable activities
• Budget Line Items (BLI) adjusted to plans,
  allowance for 120 over current (if services
  requested, must show equal leveraging of other
  supportive services commitments)

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Renewal Applications

• Includes an Executive Summary and synopsis
• Overview of main components
• any updated elements
• annual housing output for the next year
• Grantee/sponsor contacts

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Renewal Applications

• Provision of Current PSH Narrative
• demonstrate how your project provides permanent
  supportive housing through HOPWA
• Describe planned performance benchmarks, and how
  your current project has been meeting your goals

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Renewal Applications

• Achieving New Results and Program Evaluation
• identify the housing benefits or outcomes of your
  Renewal program
• address your evaluation plan or method of
  collecting data on HUD program measures

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Renewal Applications

• Leveraging for supportive service requests
• If your renewal project requests funding for
  supportive services, your application will be
  reviewed for leverage.
• demonstrate evidence of commitments from other
  state, local, federal, or private resources to
  provide additional supportive services
• Allows for BLI increases to 120 from current
  grants BLI for continuing activities

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Renewal Applications

• Limits on supportive service requests
• Limits of 35 of the maximum activity cost at
  455,000

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Competitive Rating and Ranking for New and
Continuing Applications

• Long-term Projects for Permanent Housing in
  Non-Formula Areas
• SPNS Demonstration Grants for Transitional
  Projects

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New and Continuing Applications

• 100 rating points available
• 2 bonus points RC/EZ/EC-II
• 75 points minimum required along with minimum of
  14 of 20 points for capacity

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Rating Criteria New Projects

• Capacity (20)
• Need (15)
• Soundness of
• Approach (45)
• Leveraging (10)
• Achieving Results (10)

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Factor 1 Capacity of the Applicant and Project
Sponsors (20 pts)

• HUD will consider your
• ability to develop operate programs
• past experience
• experience in monitoring evaluating programs
• prior performance with HUD

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Factor 2 Need/Extent of Problem (15 pts)

• Description of unmet housing need in your area,
  shown in Con Plans, Cont. of Care or other plans
• Involving a comprehensive and coordinated
  approach
• Shown in sound reliable data
• AIDS cases from CDC data

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Factor 3 Soundness of Approach (45 pts)

• (15 pts) Responsiveness Address unmet housing
  need through the provision of housing activities
  with related operational plans and support.
• (5 pts) Coordination
• Coordinated project activities with other
  organizations to complement efforts, and access
  other mainstream support

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Factor 3 Soundness of Approach

• (5 pts) Public Policy Priorities
• Visitability Universal design
• nonprofit grassroots community-based
  organizations, including faith-based
• Energy Star
• regulatory barriers questionnaire

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Factor 3 Soundness of Approach

• (20 pts) Model Demonstration Qualities
• Service delivery model for managing evaluating
  planned efforts, with other special features,
  including support for chronic homeless,
  innovative qualities to benefit or expand HOPWA
  knowledge

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Factor 4 Leveraging and Sustainability (10 pts)
For 5 points, commitments of resources to your
project in signed documentation and with equal
leveraging on service requests
State Local Funds
Private Funds
In-kind resources
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Factor 4 Leveraging

• For 5 points, a plan with resources for
  sustaining efforts after the use of the federal
  grant

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Factor 5 Achieving Results and Program
Evaluation (10 pts)

• Setting benchmarks indicators that implement
  the HOPWA output and outcome goals
• Evaluation plans for objective measurement of
  achievements and use of results
• Logic Model

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New Project Applications

• Narratives responsive to the rating criteria
• Budget requests and output plans
• Leveraging commitments
• Certifications, nonprofit status documentation,
  other required forms
• Logic Model

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Sec VI Award Administration

• Conditional-selection
• Award modifications

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Helpful Hints

• Read and study the NOFA for HOPWA and the General
  Section
• Clarity in your presentations
• Check consistency, completeness of plans,
  accuracy of budgets and leveraged documentation
• Keep within program limits
• Dont be late

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Grants.gov

• Applications Submission Date -- May 27, 2005
• Help at
• support_at_grants.gov
• 800-518-GRANTS

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For More Information

• Office of HIV/AIDS Housing
• HOPWA_at_HUD.GOV
• HUD Website for AIDS Housing
• http//www.hud.gov/cpd/offices/
• aidshousing
• For area formula programs see
• local/index.cfm