To: Board of Supervisors
From: Planning and Building Department
Agenda Section: Public Hearing
SUBJECT:
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Consider and Adopt the Permanent Local Housing Allocation ("PLHA") 5-Year Plan and Resolution authorizing the Submittal of a Department of Housing and Community Development ("HCD") Grant Application for the 2019 Permanent Local Housing Allocation
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RECOMMENDATION(S):
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That the Board of Supervisors:
1. Open the public hearing and receive the staff report and testimony by the public;
2. Close the public hearing;
3. Direct that $146,000 of the PLHA Year 2019 funds be set aside for an eligible homelessness solutions activity(ies) to be recommended by the Housing Trust Fund and Homelessness Solutions Committee ("Committee");
4. Adopt the resolution (Resolution 20-__) in Attachment 1, which does the following:
a. Authorizing and adopting the Permanent Local Housing Allocation 5-Year Plan;
b. Authorizing an application to be submitted to the Department of Housing and Community Development ("HCD") for the 2019 Permanent Local Housing Allocation ("PLHA") Funding Allocation Year 2019 for up to $344,448; and
c. Authorizing and directing the Planning and Building Department Director to execute in the name of the County of Humboldt the application, the Standard Agreement, and all other documents required by HCD for participation in the PLHA Program, and any amendments.
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SOURCE OF FUNDING:
The cost to submit this grant application is included in budgeted salary allocations for budget unit 1100282; and the Permanent Local Housing Allocation Year 2019 funds.
DISCUSSION:
Background. On February 26, 2020, The State of California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) released a Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) for the Permanent Local Housing Allocation (PLHA). Funding for this NOFA is provided by the 2017 Building Homes and Jobs Trust Fund Act ("Fund"). It authorizes HCD to allocate 70 percent of monies col...
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