To
provide States and localities with the resources and incentives
to devise long-term comprehensive strategies for meeting the housing
needs of persons with AIDS or related diseases and their families.
TYPES
OF ASSISTANCE:
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USES
AND USE RESTRICTIONS:
Grantees
and project sponsors may use HOPWA funds to provide for any of the
following eligible activities, subject to certain standards and
limitations provided in the regulations: (l) Housing information
services including, but not limited to, counseling, information,
and referral services to assist eligible individuals to locate,
acquire, finance and maintain housing; (2) Resource identification
to establish, coordinate and develop housing assistance resources;
(3) Acquisition, rehabilitation, conversion, lease, and repair of
facilities to provide housing and services; (4) New construction
(for single room occupancy (SRO) dwellings and community residences
only); (5) Project- or tenant-based rental assistance including
assistance for shared housing arrangements; (6) Short-term rent,
mortgage, and utility payments to prevent the homelessness of the
tenant or mortgagor of a dwelling; (7) Supportive services including,
but not limited to, health, mental health, assessment, permanent
housing placement, drug and alcohol abuse treatment and counseling,
day care, nutritional services, intensive care when required, and
assistance in gaining access to local, State, and Federal government
benefits and services except that health services may not be provided
to family members (*); (8) Operating costs for housing including
maintenance, security, operation, insurance, utilities, furnishings,
equipment, supplies, and other incidental costs; (9) Technical assistance
in establishing and operating a community residence, including planning
and other pre-development or pre-construction expenses and including,
but not limited to, costs relating to community outreach and educational
activities regarding AIDS or related diseases; (10) Administrative
expenses: 3 percent for grantees and 7 percent for project sponsors,
including costs of staff necessary to carry out eligible activities;
and (11) For competitive grants only any other activity proposed
by the applicant and approved by HUD. Restrictions: Appropriate
supportive services must be provided as part of any HOPWA assisted
housing and may be provided independently of any housing assistance.
General standards for housing activities are established, including
minimum use periods for structures (10 years for new construction,
substantial rehabilitation or acquisition and 3 years for other
non-substantial rehabilitation or repair). Resident rent payments
are required for rental assistance and for residing in rental housing.
Additional standards for rental assistance, short-term supported
housing, and community residences are provided. Under the fiscal
year 2002 appropriation, $2 million of program funds will be available
through a Notice of Funds Availability (NOFA) for HOPWA technical
assistance. (*)Per the HOPWA regulations, health services may only
be provided to an individual with HIV/AIDS (not family members)
and payments for health-care costs are limited by 574.310(b) to
items and services that are not made or reasonably expected to be
made under compensation programs, insurance policy, or health benefits
programs. HUD issued guidance on the restricted use of HOPWA funds
for AIDS Drug Assistance and other Health-care Costs.
ELIGIBILITY
REQUIREMENTS:
Applicant
Eligibility: (1) Entitlement grants will be
awarded by formula to States and qualifying cities for eligible
metropolitan statistical areas (EMSAs) with the largest number of
cases of AIDS. The most populous city will serve as the applicant/grantee
for the EMSAs award; and (2) competitively awarded grants will be
awarded to: (a) States, local governments and nonprofit organizations
for special projects of national significance; and (b) projects
submitted by States and localities in areas that do not qualify
for HOPWA formula allocations. Nonprofit organizations are eligible
to apply for projects of national significance, but may also serve
as a project sponsor for other types of grants.
Beneficiary
Eligibility: Eligible beneficiaries are low
income persons with HIV or AIDS and their families (* except as
noted for health services). Regardless of income, persons with
AIDS may receive housing information. Persons living near community
residences may receive educational information.
Credentials/Documentation:
Costs will be determined in accordance with OMB Circular No. A-87
for State and local governments and No. A-110 and A-122 section
report to private nonprofit organizations. Governmental entities
will certify to their eligibility.
Pre-application
Coordination: An environmental assessment is
required for this program. Any activity provided in an application
that HUD determines would have a significant adverse impact on the
human environment would not be eligible for funding. All components
of this program are excluded from coverage under E.O. 12372.
Application
Procedure: Government recipients must have
submitted a Consolidated Plan, an annual action plan and certifications
to HUD. The Consolidated Plan and annual action plan cover four
major formula- distribution HUD community development programs,
including HOPWA. The annual action plan must describe how funds
will be used. Ten percent of HOPWA funds and the technical assistance
funds are awarded on a competitive basis through a national competition,
under the SuperNOFA, a Notice of Fund Availability . Application
packages prescribing the specific information that applicants
must submit will be available from HUD when the SuperNOFA is published
in the Federal Register. The fiscal year 2002 appropriation act
authorizes the Secretary to renew all expiring contracts for permanent
supportive housing that were funded under section 854(c)(3) of
AIDS Housing Act that meet all program requirements before awarding
funds for new contracts and activities authorized under this section:
Provided further, That the Secretary may use up to $2,000,000
of the funds under this heading for training, oversight, and technical
assistance activities.
Award
Procedure: HUD reviews Consolidated Plan submissions
and competitive applications under the SuperNOFA. HUD prepares
a Grant Agreement for formula applicants and for those applications
selected on a competitive basis.
Deadlines:
A Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) for competitive grants
announces deadlines for applications. For formula grants, action
plans associated with the Consolidated Plan must be submitted
based on the grantee's operating year, but no earlier than December
1 or no later than August 16 of the fiscal year for which funds
are allocated.
Range
of Approval/Disapproval Time: Processing of
Consolidated Plan submissions will take place in HUD Field Offices
and selection of successful competitive applicants will take place
in HUD Headquarters with post-selection technical submissions
(if any) processed in HUD Field Offices. HUD will make its final
selections and obligate funds as soon as the applications are
processed.
Appeals:
None.
Renewals:
Not applicable.
ASSISTANCE
CONSIDERATIONS:
Formula
and Matching Requirements: The formula for entitlement
grants is found at 24 CFR 574.130. Ninety percent of appropriated
amounts are to be distributed by formula entitlement. Seventy-five
percent of this 90 percent is distributed to qualifying cities for
eligible metropolitan statistical areas (EMSA) and eligible States
for areas outside of EMSAs, based on each metropolitan area's or
State's proportionate share of the cumulative number of AIDS cases
in all eligible metropolitan areas and eligible States. The remaining
twenty- five percent is allocated among the qualifying cities in
eligible metropolitan statistical areas, but not States, where the
per capita incidence of AIDS for the year (April 1 to March 31)
preceding the fiscal year of the appropriation is higher than the
average for all metropolitan areas with more than 500,000 population.
The EMSA's allocation is based on its proportionate share of the
incidence of AIDS cases. The high incidence factor is computed by
multiplying: (1) the population of the metropolitan area; and (2)
the difference between its twelve-month-per-capita-incidence rate
and the rate for all metropolitan areas with more than 500,000 population.
HUD will use data collected by the U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention (CDC), National Center for Infectious Diseases, Division
of HIV/AIDS, and population data provided by the U.S. Census. The
CDC data utilized will be as reported as of March 31 of the fiscal
year immediately preceding the fiscal year of the appropriation.
Length
and Time Phasing of Assistance: Funds should
be expended in a timely manner or may be subject to deobligation
after 3 years from the date of the signing of the grant agreement.
POST
ASSISTANCE REQUIREMENTS:
Reports:
Annual progress reports for competitive grants and performance reports
for formula programs under the Consolidated Plan will describe the
use of the amounts received, including the number of persons assisted,
the types of assistance provided, and any other information that
HUD may require. Recipients jurisdiction file a Consolidated Annual
Performance and Evaluation Report (CAPER) are required and are due
to HUD 90 days following the completion of the grantee's operating
year along with data elements to be provided in HUD's information
technology system for Consolidated Plan programs (IDIS). Reports
are filed and reviewed by the area CPD office. Standard HOPWA grant
agreements provide that formula grantees agree and will ensure that
project sponsors agree to comply with requirements for record keeping,
annual performance reports (to be submitted to HUD within 90 days
after the close of the jurisdiction's program year, 24 CFR 91.520)
and information to be collected periodically in the Department's
Integrated Disbursement and Information System (IDIS). Grantees
must use IDIS to provide complete annual information on the use
of program and other funds. The periodic collection of information
in IDIS should be made, at a minimum, within 90 days of any disbursement
request, on the completion of an activity, and on the completion
of the program year. The information to be collected should include
information on grant activities, project sponsors, sites and units
of housing, and beneficiaries (which must include racial and ethnic
data on participants) that is to be used for program monitoring
and evaluation purposes. If the State grantee has not yet converted
to the use of IDIS, the grantee should report to HUD on information
collected in the Annual Progress Report, Form HUD-40110-C (11/97).
For grantees that convert to the use of IDIS during an operating
year, the grantee may use this form to report on activities for
the full year, or for that part of the year prior to their conversion
in conjunction with their IDIS reports, or use IDIS to combine such
information with information being collected in IDIS.
Audits:
The financial management systems used by governmental entities
that are grantees or project sponsors of other grantees must provide
for audits in accordance with 24 CFR 85. A nonprofit organization
serving as a grantee or project sponsor for a grantee is subject
to the audit requirements set forth in 24 CFR part 84.
Records:
Grantees will ensure that records are maintained for a seven-year
period to document compliance with the program. Grantees must
maintain current and accurate data on the race and ethnicity of
program participants.
FINANCIAL
INFORMATION:
Account
Identification: 86-0308-0-1-604.
Obligations:
(Grants) FY 01 $257,432,000; FY 02 est $277,432,000; FY 03 est
$292,000,000. (NOTE: Amounts reported reflect allocation of new
budget authority rather than obligation amounts.)
Range
and Average of Financial Assistance:
The range of fiscal year 2002 formula allocations is $49,409,000
to the largest grant and $65,000 to the smallest grant; the average
amount is $2,295,269 for the 108 recipient communities.
Grants selected under the fiscal year 2001 competition range in
size from $1,370,000 to $308,116; the average amount is $1,023,741
for the 25 recipient competitive organizations.
HOPWA funds have helped many communities establish strategic AIDS
housing plans, better coordinate local and private efforts, fill
gaps in local systems of care, and create new housing resources.
In assisting low-income persons who are living with HIV or AIDS
and their families avoid homelessness, grantees have provided for
a wide-array of housing, social services and program planning and
development activities undertaken in connection with health-case,
AIDS Drug Assistance and other support offered through community-wide
efforts. Program activities have also helped to address the objectives
of the National AIDS Strategy which established national goals to
end the epidemic of HIV and AIDS and to ensure that all people living
with HIV have access to services, from health care to housing and
supportive services, that are affordable, of high quality, and responsive
to their needs. HUD estimated that the fiscal year 2002 HOPWA appropriation
of $277.4 million would provide housing assistance to about 61,700
persons, including family members who reside with the persons living
with HIV/AIDS in about 53,100 units of housing. More than half,
60% of the assistance involve clients who receive a small, short-term
payments to prevent homelessness, 24%involve on-going rental assistance
payments and approximately 16% is used for supportive housing facilities.
SROs or community residences would also be developed or operated
with HOPWA funds. Residents and other persons also receive supportive
services that are funded by this or other related public and private
programs. The allocations 1992-98 have been almost fully used in
provided needed housing assistance to persons with HIV/AIDS and
their families who have pressing housing needs. The most recent
grants 1999- 2001 are underway and the 2001 funds are generally
in a development stage that involves community consultations, the
development and refinement of plans, and the selection of providers,
often by local request-for-proposal processes. Following development,
programs initiate operations, select trained staff, identify clients,
and coordinate services with other area providers. Property development
activities, such as site selection, predevelopment plans, construction
and rehabilitation efforts, code inspections, and licensure actions
may also be involved in specific projects. Grantees and their sponsors
also monitor the assistance provided to clients, may adapt activities
to improve the responsiveness of services and consult clients, undertake
evaluations and report on the accomplishment of their activities.
REGULATIONS,
GUIDELINES, AND LITERATURE:
Final Rule at 24 CFR 574, as amended; and Consolidated Plan Final
Rule at 24 CFR part 91.
INFORMATION
CONTACTS:
Regional
or Local Office: Designated Community Planning
and Development staff in each HUD Field Office. HUD Field Offices
are listed in Appendix IV of the Catalog.
Headquarters
Office: David Vos, Director, Office of HIV/AIDS
Housing, Community Planning and Development, Department of Housing
and Urban Development, 451 Seventh Street SW., Room 7212, Washington,
DC 20410. Telephone: (202) 708-1934, 1-800-877-8339 TTY, E-Mail
David_Vos@hud.gov. Information on HOPWA is also available on the
HUD home page on the world wide web at http://www.hud.gov/offices/cpd/aidshousing
HOPWA Technical Assistance is provided by AIDS Housing of Washington,
2014 East Madison, Suite 200, Seattle, WA 98122. Telephone: (206)
322- 9444.
Web
Site Address: http://www.hud.gov/offices/cpd/aidshousing
EXAMPLES
OF FUNDED PROJECTS:
Competitive Projects: In the 9 national competitions held to date,
176 projects have been selected to serve as models of exemplary
AIDS housing efforts. An example is: Under their award in the Fiscal
Year 2001 competition, The City of Savannah, Community Planning
and Development Division, will receive renewal funding of $1,229,636
to continue operating Project House Call. The City partners with
Union Mission, Inc., and two project partners - Georgia Legal Services
Program and Hospice Savannah - and operate activities within the
10-member Savannah-Chatham AIDS Continuum of Care. Assistance is
based on the use of a 10-unit community residence and short-term
housing payments for 75 households. Under the original grant, this
program prevented homelessness for 213 unduplicated individuals
with HIV/AIDS who enrolled in Project House Call and received the
provision of home-based services. The program provides services
in the homes of PLWA/A's who might not otherwise have access to
services within the Chatham/Effingham County areas. Project House
Call is a lifeline for the population it serves, linking them with
primary medical care, legal services, transportation assistance,
substance abuse counseling, group therapies, and hospice services.
For information contact: Community Planning and Development Division,
Office of the City Manager, P.O. Box 1027, Savannah, GA 31402. Ms.
Taffanye Young, Director; Phone: (912) 651-6520; Fax: (912) 651-6525;
Email: Taffanye_Young@ci.savannah.ga.us. Formula Programs (34 states
and 74 cities): The City of Jacksonville has been a HOPWA formula
grant recipient since 1994. The program is administered by the City's
Community Development Division of the Planning and Development Department
and serves the Jacksonville metropolitan area that includes Clay,
Duval, Nassau and St. Johns counties. PROGRAM ACCOMPLISHMENTS: HOPWA
grants totaling $949,000 were awarded to six subrecipients who administer
programs that address the need of homeless and persons with special
needs who are infected with HIV/AIDS. The programs provide three
major components of assistance: 1) Shared housing program; 2) Short-term
rent/mortgage payments, security deposits and utility assistance;
and 3) Shelter and supportive services for HIV/AIDS persons dually
diagnosed with substance abuse and/or mental health problems. The
Lutheran Social Services Shared Housing Program matched persons
who may or may not be HIV/AIDS infected with rooms to rent in their
homes, with 48 individuals seeking a place to live. Northeast Florida
AIDS Network used HOPWA funds to provide emergency financial assistance
that included 493 units of rent and mortgage assistance, 473 units
of utility assistance, 161 security deposits and over 4500 units
of case management to 312 individuals. Overlay services were provided
to 32 dually diagnosed persons with substance abuse, mental illness
and HIV/AIDS that included mental health treatment and structured
workshops by River Region Human Services. HOPWA continued to support
the St. Johns Horizon House, a permanent supportive housing facility
for persons with HIV/AIDS. Thirty-eight persons received counseling
sessions and 24-hour caregiver service in this caring home- like
environment. In 1993, nearly a half million dollars in CDBG funds
were awarded to Methodist Regional Hospital Systems, Inc. to assist
with the rehabilitation of approximately 30,000 square feet of the
old 50- room hospital into individual residences for persons with
AIDS. Since then, the City of Jacksonville has continued to support
this program through HOPWA. HOPWA grant funds also supported a residential
substance abuse treatment program, including psychiatric evaluations
for 56 individuals at Gateway Community Services. Primary Contact:
Roslyn M. Phillips, Community Dev. Div. Chief 128 E. Forsyth, Suite
600 Jacksonville, FL 32202, Phone: 904-630-7030 FAX: 904-630-4626
Descriptions of all HOPWA Programs are found at www.hud.gov/offices/cpd/aidshousing.
CRITERIA
FOR SELECTING PROPOSALS:
For competitive grants, the Statute establishes rating criteria
and further information will be published in a NOFA.
