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Description
Docket #0801- Grant appropriation for housing for the homeless
A
8:01
authorizing
the
Department
of
Neighborhood
Development
to
apply
for,
accept
and
expend
federal,
FY
17
continuum
of
care
grants
grant
funds
not
to
exceed
28
million
dollars
from
the
US
Department
of
Housing
and
Urban
Development
to
support
programs
that
provide
services
and
housing
to
the
homeless.
Thank
you
for
being
here
as
the
chair
of
the
Committee
on
homelessness,
mental
health
and
recovery,
I'd
like
to
welcome
you
and
remind
everyone
that
this
hearing
is
being
recorded
and
broadcast
live
on,
Comcast
8
and
RCN
82,
as
well
as
strained
on
the
internet
live
and
for
further
broadcast.
A
We
ask
that
you
please
turn
off
your
cell
phones
and
anything
else
that
makes
noise
also,
if
you
haven't
done
so,
please
sign
in
as
a
signing
cheeser
at
the
outside
door.
If
you'd
like
to
testify
just
check
the
box,
and
we
will
call
you
up
at
the
end
of
the
hearing,
I
don't
think
we'll
have
public
testimony
today.
A
I
would
like
to
just
say
I'm
so
happy
to
be
here
and
honored
to
sit
on
the
city
of
Boston's
continuum
of
care,
Leadership
Council
as
chair
of
the
committee
and
homelessness,
mental
health
and
recovery,
and
know
firsthand
the
amazing
work
that
Sheila,
that
your
team
does
on
this
council
and
on
this
COC
as
we
refer
to
it
and
look
forward
to
being
able
to
do
some
great
things
going
forward.
As
we
accept
this
grant.
I
think
we'll
turn
it
over
to
all
of
you,
chief
Dillon
and
your
team.
B
C
You
Sheila
good
afternoon,
councilor
asabi
for
the
record.
My
name
is
Katie
Cahill
Holloway
and,
as
Sheila
mentioned,
I've
moved
into
the
acting
acting
deputy
role
for
the
supportive
housing
division
at
DND
and
I'd
also
like
to
echo
the
thanks
that
Sheila
just
gave
to
you
for
your
unwavering
support
of
our
efforts
to
house
our
most
vulnerable
citizens.
C
So
the
order
before
us
authorizes
DND
on
behalf
of
the
city,
to
apply
for
accept
and
expend
federal
fiscal
year,
2017
funding
for
HUDs
annual
continuum
of
care,
competition,
the
federal
fiscal
year
2017
is
actually
the
city
of
Boston's
fiscal
year
18.
Just
for
clarification.
These
important
funds
are
critical
to
the
continued
operation
of
Boston's
homeless
assistance.
The
funds
through
the
National
annual
mckinney-vento
Homeless
continuum
of
care
funding,
competition
and
the
competition
opens
on
an
annual
basis
in
accordance
with
HUD
requirements.
C
The
Boston
toc
submitted
its
2017
registration
on
May,
1st
2017,
and
the
filing
of
the
registration
makes
the
Boston
COC
eligible
to
compete
in
the
2017
competition
when
it
opens
the
up
to
28
million
amount
on
the
order
to
apply
for
accept
and
expend.
The
funds
is
an
estimate
based
on
HUDs
registration
notice.
The
majority
of
the
application
consists
of
the
renewal
of
existing
permanent
housing
programs.
C
So
we
are
seeking
a
vote
amount
that
will
cover
all
of
the
renewals
plus
any
new
or
increased
funding
that
HUD
may
award.
So
in
summary,
the
application
seeks
funding
for
34
grants
that
fund
permanent
housing,
rental
and
leasing,
assistance,
transitional
housing
and
support
services
for
permanent
housing
programs.
The
resources
awarded
through
this
application
directly
support
the
city's
efforts
to
eliminate
chronic
and
veterans
homelessness.
In
Boston,
the
current
funding
supports
nearly
1,800,
formerly
homeless
and
housing,
including
nearly
1,100
chronically
homeless.
C
The
funds
are
from
HUD
and
are
awarded
in
the
annual
COC
competition
and,
as
I
mentioned,
we've
submitted
our
registration,
which
makes
us
eligible
to
submit
an
application
once
the
NOFA
opens.
How
does
yet
to
publish
it,
but
we
anticipate
that
it
will
be
released
by
the
end
of
this
month
and
HUDs
registration
notice
indicated
that
the
NOFA
a
contain
an
opportunity
for
communities
to
apply
for
new
permanent
housing
bonus
funding.
Such
funds
must
be
used
to
create
housing
for
HUD
priority
populations,
including
the
chronically
homeless,
homeless,
individuals
and
families
and
youth.
C
And,
finally,
the
renewal
allocation
that
I
mentioned
earlier
by
project
type
we
fund
94%
of
that
total
grant
amount,
goes
to
support
permanent
housing,
including
leasing
and
rental
assistance
activities.
1%
of
it
goes
to
transitional
housing.
2%
goes
to
our
homeless
management
information
system,
which
tracks
client
level
data
across
the
system.
1%
supports
our
coordinated
access
system
which
matches
homeless,
clients
to
appropriate
housing
and
supportive
service
resources
and
2%
is
towards
COC
planning
efforts.
This
concludes
my
overview
of
the
COC
program,
competition
and
it's
important
to
Boston's,
homeless
assistance
system
and
the
clients
we
serve.
C
A
C
C
A
A
A
C
I
mean
it
is
a
competition.
It's
not
like
the
formula
base
funding,
so
we
really
have
to
go
in,
and
sort
of
you
know
prove
that
what
we're
doing
is
working
and
all
of
the
you
know
the
details
in
terms
of
what
we're
going
to
be
evaluated
on
are
going
to
be
in
the
NOFA,
but
I
think
we.
We
have
good
indication.
Hud
has
really
move
towards
looking
at
system
performance
measures.
So
how
quickly
are
we
moving
people
through
our
system?
C
What
rates
of
success
do
we
have
with
both
placing
people
in
permanent
housing
and
then
keeping
them
there
once
they
are?
We've
gotten,
you
know
really
really
sophisticated
with
the
data
that
we'll
able
able
to
collect
and
I
think
you
know
what
we've
been
able
to
review.
You
know
indicates
that
we'll
be
very
competitive
in
this
round
once
again
and.
C
So
the
rates
in
terms
of
you
know,
people
coming
out
of
shelter,
is
obviously
impeded
by
the
fact
that
we
don't
have
a
lot
of
vacancy
we're
really
successful
in
terms
of
retaining
people
that
we
do
place
in
permanent
housing
in
permanent
housing,
so
we're
sort
of
dependent
on
applying
for
new
funds
to
create
additional
units
and
also
being
very
careful
and
how
we
target
the
turnover
in
our
existing
portfolio.
So
we
have
number
of
efforts
kind
of
supporting
those
efforts.
We
have
a
moving
on
pilot
where
our
partners
are
evaluating.
C
Clients
that
have
been
in
housing
has
been
unstable
in
housing
for
a
long,
long
time
and
doing
an
assessment
of
their
skills
to
see
whether
or
not
they're
ready
to
move
on
to
more
independent,
affordable
housing.
So
you
know
we're
always
sort
of
you
know
scrambling
to
make
the
case
to
add
to
our
permanent
housing
portfolio.
So
we
can
continue
to
move
people
through
our
system
successfully.
We
also
obviously
have
done
a
big
effort
around
infusing
resources
into
our
rapid
rehousing
system,
and
so
that
you
know
will
prove
to
yield
I
think
many.
A
Great
and
then
the
the
housing
efforts
do
we
I
see
that
you've
broken
up
some
of
the
work
by
neighborhood.
If
you
talk
about
some
of
the
shelters
that
we
work
with
in
particular
and
another,
you
know,
the
two
are
two
main
city
shelters,
but
some
of
the
work
that's
happening
there
with
accessing
some
of
the
permanent
housing.
C
Is
accessing
resources
so
it
we're
in
the
process
of
really
constructing
sort
of
a
system-wide
response.
So
specifically,
what
we're
working
on
now
around
rapid
rehousing,
the
partnership
that
we're
in
the
process
of
creating
involves,
obviously,
the
major
city
shelters
as
well
as
Pine
Street,
Saint,
Francis
house,
pilgrim
shelter
were
also
holding
st.
Francis
into
that
as
a
day.
Shelter
and
really
the
vision
is
that,
no
matter
what
shelter
somebody
presents
that
that
they're
going
to
have
sort
of
the
same
menu
of
opportunity
as
anybody
in
any
other
shelter.
C
But
you
know
it's
hard
work
and
it's
transformative
work,
but
I
think
that
we
have
kind
of
laid
a
foundation
for
good
partnerships
with
the
shelters.
We
have
a
big
meeting
tomorrow,
really
to
kind
of
kick
off
the
formal
rollout
of
the
Housing
Works
Partnership,
which
is
our
rapid,
rehousing
effort.
That's
great.
A
C
C
What
I
do
hope
is
that
in
the
past
year
we've
had
several
of
our
rapid
rehousing
efforts
come
online
and
I'm,
hoping
that
you
know
the
data
that
we
have
from
that
is
sort
of
in
the
timeframe
that
HUD
will
be
evaluating,
because
we
should
see
some
improvements
there
due
to
that
I
think
going
forward.
We'll
see
sort
of
you
know
increasing
success
in
that
regard,
just
as
rapid
rehousing
really
comes
to
scale
so.
B
I
could
the
length
at
the
point
in
time
count
has
shown
that
our
length
of
stay
in
the
last
year
has
really
greatly
improved.
As
you
know,
we've
been
working
very
hard
to
house
our
chronic,
which
was
they
had
the
longest
length
of
stay
so
by
getting
them
housed.
You
know
the
length
of
stay
is
shortened.
Pine
Street
was
in
the
other
day
and
I
can
get
you
the
information
counselor.
It
was
fascinating.
The
length
of
stay
at
Pine
Street
was
greatly
reduced.
B
A
B
A
Into
I,
fascinating
yeah,
to
know
a
little
bit
more
about
the
details
and
I.
Do
you
want
to
share
that
housing
surge
I
know
my
office
would
whose
really
yeah
it
it's
awkward
to
say.
They've
enjoyed
this
work,
but
I
think
they've
enjoyed
participating
in
the
success
of
this
work.
We
really
would
that
this
work
wasn't
necessary,
but
would
you
talk
a
little
bit
about
some
of
the
results
from
the
search
from
last
week,
I
actually,
and
maybe
for
anyone
at
home,
viewing
perhaps
just
described
very
quickly
and
in
a
quick
captions?
What
how.
C
It
inversion
is
yes
sure,
so
a
housing
surge
is
really
one-stop
shopping
for
targeted
guests
of
our
shelter
to
come
in
and
the
vision
is
that
they're
going
to
walk
out
at
the
end
of
the
day,
with
a
housing
offer
in
a
service
package,
that's
going
to
allow
them
to
be
successful
in
stable
and
permanent
housing.
So
we've
hosted
a
number
of
these
I
think
I've
lost
count,
probably
yeah
a
December
8
step,
so
we
hosted
eight
and
I
think
the
word
has
gotten
out
when
we
were
first
operating
the
surges.
C
We
expected
a
return
rate
of
maybe
twenty
to
thirty
percent
of
the
invited
guests,
and
at
last
week
surge
we
were
up
at
fifty
percent
return
rate
of
invited
guests,
so
I
think
the
word
is
definitely
getting
out
that
this
is
for
real
and
people
are
walking
out
with
office
of
housing.
So
last
week
we
had
63
people
actually
attend
the
surge,
and
we
had
from
our
great
partner
the
Boston
Housing
Authority
44
offers
of
hard
units
that
day,
meaning
that
they
walked
out
of
there
with
their
apartment
address.
C
C
We
also
had
an
additional
nine
folks
walk
out
with
tenant
based
vouchers
from
MB
HP,
so
it
sort
of
operates
like
a
section-8
program
and
they're
going
to
be
starting
housing
search
so
out
of
63
that
that's
an
amazing
rate
of
people
actually
walking
out
with
house,
and
we
had
a
few
people
that
a
surge
can
be
overwhelming.
We
had
some
people
that
walked
out.
We
had
one
gentleman
that
was
able
to
be
paired
with
a
service
package
and
we're
in
he
was
going
the
next
day
to
look
at
a
unit
of
paint,
France
house.
C
So
it
absolutely
takes
a
community.
We
have
partnerships
sort
of
like
across
the
spectrum
of
government.
You
know
we
have
federal
partners,
obviously
the
state
OHHS.
You
know
the
office
of
elderly
affairs
at
the
state
was
critical
in
terms
of
helping
us
navigate
the
service
package
side.
Most
of
the
services
are
through
different
Medicaid,
funded
programs
in
the
detail
and
and
the
work
that
goes
into
sort
of
assessing
each
client
prior
to
surge,
to
figure
out
what
they're
eligible
for
is
a
huge
team
effort
and
also
in
terms
of
city
departments.
C
Obviously,
City
Council
has
been
very
supportive.
The
Boston
Housing
Authority.
We
could
not
do
it
without
them
and
then
obviously,
the
lobber,
a
cenar
for
hosting
us
I
mean
so
generous
and
letting
us
basically
take
over
their
building
for
thirteen
hours,
which
is
how
long
we
were
there.
So
it's
a
very,
very
gratifying
but
effective
event.
At
the
same
time,
great.
B
You
know
front
and
center
and
they
were
great
and
our
own
elderly
commissioner,
was
there
helping
with
elder
services
so
you're
right,
it's
a
lot
of
departments
and
them,
but
very
successful,
and
if
I
just
want
to
add
one
thing
to
that,
and
for
folks
that
are
watching
this
might
say.
Well
how
hard
is
it
to
offer?
B
You
know
housing
and
services
to
someone
if
they're
homeless,
but
these
are
folks
that
have
been
homeless
for
very
long
periods
of
time
and
have
a
lot
of
a
lot
of
obstacles
to
getting
housed
and
need
a
lot
of
supports
and
have
been
homeless
for
very
long
periods
of
time
and,
as
you
know,
sometimes
aren't
always
trusting
with
you
know
towards
government.
So
it's
it
was
great
that
they
overcame
that
and
was
able
to
get
housed.
Well.