Title
Program Services for Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS
Action
Action:
Approve a contract in the amount of $500,000 with Kintegra Health for a term of one year to provide short term housing assistance programming that supports individuals and families living with HIV/AIDS, and
Authorize the City Manager, or his designee, to negotiate, modify, amend, and extend the contract for up to two, one-year terms consistent with the purpose for which the contract was approved.
Body
Staff Resource(s):
Raquishela Stewart, Housing and Neighborhood Services
Warren Wooten, Housing and Neighborhood Services
Explanation
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS (HOPWA) Program is the only federal program dedicated to the housing needs of people living with HIV/AIDS.
The City of Charlotte, as the participating jurisdiction, is the HOPWA regional administrator for the Charlotte Metropolitan Statistical Area (Program Area), which includes the counties of Anson, Cabarrus, Gaston, Iredell, Lincoln, Mecklenburg, Rowan, and Union in North Carolina, and the counties of Chester, Lancaster, and York in South Carolina. This required Program Area is determined by HUD.
In fiscal year (FY) 2027, the city received a HOPWA allocation from HUD in the amount of $4,084,628 to help low-income persons living in the Program Area with HIV/AIDS and their families achieve and maintain housing stability and improve their access to and engagement in HIV/AIDS treatment and care. The city must use the FY 2027 allocation for eligible activities within three years.
Eligible activities include a wide range of housing and social services including program planning, rental assistance and short-term payments to prevent homelessness, and the coordination and delivery of support services such as housing information, counseling and navigation services, assessment and case management, substance abuse treatment, mental health treat...
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