Title
Emergency Solutions Grant Funding Recommendations
Action
Action:
Approve the Housing and Neighborhood Development Committee’s recommendation of Emergency Solutions Grant Fund allocations totaling $690,768 to the following agencies:
- Supportive Housing Communities, $118,594
- Salvation Army, $309,012
- Men’s Shelter of Charlotte, $263,162
Body
Committee Chair:
LaWana Mayfield, Housing and Neighborhood Development
Staff Resource(s):
Pamela Wideman, Housing and Neighborhood Services
Warren Wooten, Housing and Neighborhood Services
Explanation
§ The approval of the Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG) Fund allocations for temporary shelter to support the City’s efforts to end and prevent homelessness.
§ On any given night, more than 700 individuals are sleeping in men’s and women’s homeless shelters.
§ On May 8, 2017, City Council adopted the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Annual Action Plan (Plan). The Plan:
- Identifies the need for affordable, safe, and decent housing and shelter for low-income and moderate-income families,
- Governs the use of funding for federal housing programs and identifies City housing goals, and
- Outlines a goal of supporting facilities and programs for the homeless with the ESG funds.
§ The ESG program contains five components: Street Outreach, Emergency Shelter, Homeless Prevention, Rapid Re-Housing, and the Homeless Management Information System.
§ ESG funds are allocated annually by HUD and must be used to:
- Engage homeless individuals and families living on the streets,
- Improve the quality and operation of emergency shelters,
- Provide essential services to shelter residents,
- Rapidly re-house homeless individuals and families, and
- Prevent families and individuals from becoming homeless.
Housing and Neighborhood Development Committee Discussion
§ On August 23 2017, Housing and Neighborhood Services presented the proposed recommendations to the Housing and Neighborhood Development Committee. The Committee voted unanimously to approve the ESG fund allocations. (Mayfield, Driggs, Ivory and Kinsey voted yes. Ajmera was absent.)
Fiscal Note
Funding: HUD Funds
Attachments
Attachment(s)
Housing and Neighborhood Development Committee August 23 Committee Presentation