Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-housing Program (HPRP)
An American Recovery & Reinvestment Act program (ARRA)
Purpose
A three year program to utilize $22 million for the following activities:
- Prevention – Assist households at risk of losing their housing and becoming homeless.
- Rapid Re-housing – Assist homeless households in need of short-term or medium-term assistance obtain housing.
Eligible Applicants for Program Delivery
- Units of local government
- Private non-profit organizations
Participant Eligibility
- Household at or below 50% of Area Median Income (AMI), and
- Household is either homeless or at risk of being homeless, and
- No appropriate subsequent housing options have been identified, and
- The household lacks the financial resources and support networks needed to obtain immediate housing or remain in its existing housing.
Eligible Activities
- Financial Assistance (for re-housing or homelessness prevention)
- Short and medium term rental assistance (not to exceed 18 months)
- Security deposits
- Utility deposits and payments
- Moving cost assistance
- Motel and hotel vouchers
- Housing location and stabilization services
- Case management
- Outreach and engagement
- Housing search and placement
- Legal services
- Credit repair
- Data Collection and Evaluation
- Program Administration
Program Administration – the partners and their primary roles
- Office of Economic Recovery and Investment (OERI) – overall responsibility for program development, compliance, oversight, Federal and State reporting, selection of applicants (lead organizations), and program implementation including training, fiscal monitoring and technical assistance
- DHHS – selection of applicants (lead organizations), ongoing program implementation, training, program monitoring, technical assistance, participant eligibility documentation, compliance, and participant data collection
- NCHFA – selection of applicants (lead organizations), the drawing down of funds through IDIS (a HUD system), accounts payable, payment documentation and compliance, and financial data collection and integrity
Key Dates/Timeline
June 19th – Program Information Packet published and distributed
July 2nd – RFA published once HUD approved amendment to State Consolidated Plan
Aug 3rd – Applications due 30 days after publication of RFA
Sept 1st – Preliminary award decisions made
Sept 14th – 25th – Meetings with provisional awardees to finalize award decisions
Sept 30th – Deadline for award notifications after OERI executed contract with HUD
Sept 30th – Oct 16th Development of training content and materials
Oct. 20th – 30th – Training of lead organizations and team members
Nov 1st – Commencement of assistance to eligible households
Aug 30th, 2011 – 60% of funds must be expended.
Aug 30th, 2012 – 100% of funds must be expended.
NOTE: Commencement of assistance to eligible households cannot begin until (early) November 2009. (Partner organizations must first receive training at the end of October 2009.)
Awardees
| Lead Organization |
Service Area |
Grant Amount |
| East Carolina Behavioral Health |
Beaufort, Camden, Chowan, Craven, Currituck, Dare, Gates, Hyde, Jones, Martin, Pamlico, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Terrell, Washington |
$2,100,000 |
| Community Link |
Cabarrus, Davidson, Rowan, Stanly, Union |
$1,400,000 |
| NW Regional Housing Authority |
Ashe, Alleghany, Avery, Mitchell, Watauga, Wilkes, Yancey |
$1,300,000 |
| Isothermal Planning Commission |
Cleveland, Polk, Rutherford |
$1,200,000 |
| Cape Fear United Way |
Brunswick, New Hanover, Pender |
$1,200,000 |
| Mountain Projects |
Haywood, Jackson |
$1,100,000 |
| City of Winston-Salem |
Forsyth |
$1,091,170 |
| Mental Health Partners |
Burke, Catawba |
$1,000,000 |
| Pitt County DSS |
Pitt |
$1,000,000 |
| CADA CAA |
Northampton, Hertford, Bertie, Halifax |
$1,000,000 |
| Alamance United Way |
Alamance |
$1,000,000 |
| Orange County DSS |
Orange |
$1,000,000 |
| Open Door of High Point |
City of High Point and surrounding areas in Guilford, Davidson, and Randolph |
$900,000 |
| Wilson County DSS |
Wilson |
$800,000 |
| Surry County DSS |
Surry, Yadkin |
$800,000 |
| McDowell County DSS |
McDowell |
$750,000 |
| Salvation Army of Gastonia |
Gaston, Lincoln |
$700,000 |
| Asheville Housing Support Team |
Buncombe |
$600,000 |
| Durham Housing Support Team |
Durham |
$600,000 |
| Guilford Housing Support Team |
Guilford |
$600,000 |
The following entitlement areas received a direct appropriation from HUD: |
| Charlotte |
Charlotte |
$1,930,217 |
| Raleigh |
Raleigh |
$991,091 |
| Durham |
Durham |
$789,101 |
| Greensboro |
Greensboro |
$781,141 |
| Winston-Salem |
Winston-Salem |
$748,097 |
| Fayetteville |
Fayetteville |
$589,648 |
| Wake |
Wake |
$582,164 |
| Asheville |
Asheville |
$509,460 |
| Total |
$29,078,387 |
Since this is a statewide program, but not all communities are in a funded service area, lead organizations are encouraged to serve eligible households from surrounding counties.
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