Housing Advisory Committee (HAC) Wednesday June 24, 2020 12:00 – 2:00 PM Virtual Meeting Agenda** 1. Call to Order / Introductions / Housekeeping / Minutes 2. Emergency Response to Covid 19 i. Strategy and Co-ordination*** 3. Subcommittee Updates – respective chairs 4. Other Business 5. Public comment **** ** Note – While the agenda does follow the template for the regular full HAC meeting, item 2 will be the focus of the meeting, and some agenda items will certainly be deferred or continued. *** See Housing, Public Health + Economic Recovery in Charlottesville.xlsx for the live version of the spreadsheet included in packet **** Note – at the discretion of the Chair, public comments related to particular agenda items may be solicited at that point in the meeting. Individuals with disabilities who require assistance or special arrangements to participate in the public meeting may call the ADA Coordinator at (434) 970-3182 or submit a request via email to ada@charlottesville.gov. The City of Charlottesville requests that you provide a 48-hour notice so that proper arrangements may be made. Staff Contact: John Sales, Housing Program Coordinator (salesj@charlottesville.org), 434-970-3315 National Alliance to End Homelessness Center on Budget and Policy Priorities A FRAMEWORK FOR COVID-19 HOMELESSNESS RESPONSE RESPONDING TO THE INTERSECTING CRISES OF HOMELESSNESS AND COVID-19 VERSION 1: MAY 1, 2020 The public health and economic crises created by the global COVID-19 pandemic are disproportionately impacting people experiencing homelessness, communities of color and people with disabilities and/or underlying health conditions. Homelessness assistance systems, most of which are strained in normal circumstances, are struggling to keep up with demand and be incorporated sufficiently into community-level public health and economic recovery activities. This crisis could be long-lasting – and we know that the longer the crisis lasts, the harder it will become for people experiencing homelessness and those with low or extremely low incomes to meet their basic needs, with Black and Hispanic people hit the hardest. Significant new funding to support the responses needed for this unprecedented situation is in the process of being allocated at the federal, state, and local levels. The passage of the CARES Act and approval of other funding sources, such as FEMA Public Assistance, are helping make it possible for communities to conduct emergency protective measures and to plan for recovery-oriented uses of these funds simultaneously. The purpose of this Framework is to provide guidance to communities on how to use these funds strategically across a range of key public health and economic recovery strategies, to meet public health goals, to increase housing stability, and to prevent future increases in homelessness that result from an economic downturn – all with a racial justice and equity lens. These actions will need to be coordinated across many partners and systems, and across all levels of government, including emergency management offices and emergency operations; cash assistance programs; public health, physical health, and behavioral health care; homelessness services and housing; food and nutrition; and others. This Framework will be constantly updated as new information on strategies, funding sources and implementation tools emerge. For example, much of the guidance on COVID-19 response for people experiencing homelessness thus far has not been specific to individual subpopulations (such as families with children, survivors of domestic violence, youth and young adults, and veterans). We recognize, however, that subpopulations are impacted in different ways and may need targeted strategies or be eligible for certain types of funding. The Framework will be an expanding document, and new action areas, strategies and resources (including protocols and plans) will be added. Many of these will address the need of specific populations. Framework for COVID-19 Homelessness Response The range of strategies and activities that communities need to implement, across systems and partners, can be overwhelming. Through conversations with our partners, and by learning from the experiences of a diverse range of communities, we recommend using the following Framework for COVID-19 Response. Because of the changing nature of the crises, we fully expect elements of this Framework to change or evolve as we learn more and as we begin to focus more on longer-term strategies and economic recovery. This Framework will support communities’ efforts to address needs during this public health crisis, to respond to future needs, and to leave our communities better prepared for future emergencies and crises. Strategies and activities will need to be undertaken in these five (5) areas: 1) Unsheltered Homelessness 4) Prevention and Diversion 2) Shelter 5) Strengthening Systems for the Future 3) Housing Page 1 of 16 National Alliance to End Homelessness Center on Budget and Policy Priorities This document identifies essential actions in four (4) implementation phases and provides guidance regarding funding that can support those actions, with a focus on existing and new federal funding. Phase 1: Immediate Actions (which should already be underway) Phase 2: Short-Term Actions (which should be underway or should be begun now) Phase 3: Medium-Term Actions (which should be underway or begun no later than in the next 30 days) Phase 4: Longer-Term Actions (which should be begun no later than in the next 30 to 60 days) It is important to note that the work across these phases is not purely consecutive or confined to specific phases; rather, a great deal of the work begun in each phase will continue through the duration of the public health response and into the economic recovery response, and beyond. Racial Justice and Equity Orientation The homelessness services field is in the early stages of addressing racial justice and equity. People of color – especially Black and American Indian/Alaska Native communities – are overrepresented within the homeless population, in part because of historical and systemic racism in other systems that feed into homelessness including the justice, health care, child welfare, behavioral health and education systems. People who identify as LGBTQ are also over- represented and face discrimination in the same systems. Data is emerging that these groups also experience disparities in the homelessness system, itself. Further, it is already clear that people of color and people from marginalized communities are disproportionately impacted by the coronavirus. This is a result of their lack of access to health care; lower quality health care; and generally increased public exposure to the virus through use of public transportation, and their reliance on employment in hourly wage, tip-supported, or other work that can only be done in public and not from home. Further, they are more likely to be poor, and therefore less able to withstand the consequences of the job loss and eviction that are resulting from the pandemic. It is critical, therefore, that planning, design and implementation of responses to COVID-19 aim to close gaps in systems of care that lead to disproportionality and disparities. In order to understand the impacts of those gaps and identify appropriate and effective responses, communities should consult the people most impacted in their planning, design, and implementation. This Framework will help communities focus on these issues. It is important to hold them at the forefront during both the emergency response phase and the longer-term recovery/rehousing phase of the response. It will be much more difficult to eliminate disparities if we do not address them head on. Page 2 of 16 National Alliance to End Homelessness Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Page 3 of 16 National Alliance to End Homelessness Center on Budget and Policy Priorities PHASE 1: IMMEDIATE ACTIONS (WHICH SHOULD ALREADY BE UNDERWAY) Public Health Response: Emergency Protective Measures Initial Focus Is on: Equitably protecting ALL people experiencing homelessness from COVID-19 infection and illness, helping flatten curve of community infections and reducing demand on health care resources, integrated within public health and emergency response. Action Priorities Strategic Use of Funding1 UNSHELTERED PERSONS: • FEMA Public Assistance: Category B-Emergency Protective • Implement non-congregate shelter for people living in encampments and follow Measures for hygiene resources for unsheltered persons and CDC guidance not to clear encampments unless alternatives that meet CDC guidance expand outreach. These activities should be included in the are available. Public Health Order and FEMA application. • Implement robust outreach, screening, and testing protocols to assess needs of • ESG or ESG-CV for outreach and other services for people in people who are unsheltered, including people in encampments AND on their own, unsheltered locations. and use information gathered to identify and prioritize people with greatest risks. • CDBG or CDBG-CV for essential services for people in • Implement approaches to referring and safely transporting people to appropriate unsheltered locations. and safe shelter and/or housing. • Federal Coronavirus Relief Fund funding provides to State and • Provide hygiene resources (handwashing stations, outreach, showers, laundry) for local jurisdictions. people in unsheltered locations. • Local jurisdictions or service providers should contact their local • Equip staff and clients with protective supplies (masks, etc.) and train staff to Office of Emergency Management to receive PPE through FEMA support people who remain unsheltered to implement safer social distancing, channels and other sources. sanitation, hygiene, and harm reduction practices. • Ensure people who are currently unsheltered have access to appropriate health care options. • Engage people with lived expertise of homelessness to ensure plans for this population are adequate and implementable. SHELTERS: • FEMA Public Assistance: Category B to pay for Emergency • Implement screening and testing protocols to assess needs and to identify and Protective Measures, including non-congregate shelter and prioritize people with greatest risks. congregate shelter. • Implement approaches to referring and safely transporting people to appropriate • ESG, ESG-CV, CDBG, CDBG-CV for shelter operations and and safe alternative shelter options and/or housing. services. • Federal Coronavirus Relief Fund funding provided to State and local jurisdictions. 1Communities should use funding as strategically as possible. National estimates for need on homeless response to COVID exceeded the amount allocated for ESG-CV, therefore it is important to ensure that planning includes ways to maximize ESG while using other non-dedicated resources for eligible activities. Page 4 of 16 National Alliance to End Homelessness Center on Budget and Policy Priorities PHASE 1: IMMEDIATE ACTIONS (WHICH SHOULD ALREADY BE UNDERWAY) Public Health Response: Emergency Protective Measures Initial Focus Is on: Equitably protecting ALL people experiencing homelessness from COVID-19 infection and illness, helping flatten curve of community infections and reducing demand on health care resources, integrated within public health and emergency response. Action Priorities Strategic Use of Funding1 • Stand up new non-congregate settings to provide isolation/quarantine units, respite • HHS/CDC COVID-19 funds through state and local jurisdictions beds, alternate care settings, and temporary shelter options for people, consistent for a variety of public health activities, including “Controlling with CDC guidance. COVID-19 in high-risk settings and protect vulnerable or high- • Use data gathered through screening and testing strategies to inform planning and risk populations.” identify needs for additional non-congregate settings. • CSBG COVID/CARES funding flows through Community Action • Ensure people staying within existing and new shelter options have access to Agencies for services to low income persons, including people appropriate health care options and trauma-informed services. experiencing homelessness. • Ensure that all existing and new shelter options are low-barrier, culturally • Runaway and Homeless Youth programs are eligible for CARES appropriate, non-discriminatory, and readily accessible to people in marginalized Act/RHY supplemental funds ($25 million). communities. • Domestic Violence Programs can access Family Violence • Deconcentrate existing shelters by relocating people to non-congregate settings, Prevention and Services CARES Act funding ($45 million). equip staff and clients with protective supplies (masks, etc.), and train staff and • Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) funding can clients on social distancing, sanitation, and hygiene practices, including adjusting be used to support temporary shelter placements. meal services. • State and local discretionary funds. • Identify shelters that are likely to close because they are seasonal (winter-only) or • Create cash flow or fill gaps with philanthropic dollars. due to lack of staff, lack of funding, inability to implement proper procedures, etc., and create alternate plans to extend operations and/or to safely relocate all people currently staying in such facilities. • Engage people with lived expertise for input and decision-making. HOUSING: Funding is largely through existing mechanisms, including: • Continue to house as many people as possible through existing resources and • CoC Program, including the Youth Homelessness through a range of options – rapid rehousing, permanent supportive housing, family Demonstration Program. reconnection, shared housing, etc. • ESG and ESG-CV (RRH) • Link those exiting to housing with needed services, including employment services • HOME TBRA and opportunities as appropriate. • HOPWA (for People Living with HIV/AIDS) • Public Housing Authorities (Public Housing and Housing Choice Vouchers) Page 5 of 16 National Alliance to End Homelessness Center on Budget and Policy Priorities PHASE 1: IMMEDIATE ACTIONS (WHICH SHOULD ALREADY BE UNDERWAY) Public Health Response: Emergency Protective Measures Initial Focus Is on: Equitably protecting ALL people experiencing homelessness from COVID-19 infection and illness, helping flatten curve of community infections and reducing demand on health care resources, integrated within public health and emergency response. Action Priorities Strategic Use of Funding1 • HUD-VASH/Tribal HUD-VASH (Veterans) • SSVF (Veterans) • TANF can support rapid rehousing interventions and links to employment. • Workforce Development Boards can support employment. • State and local discretionary funding. • Funds administered through HUD’s Office of Native American Programs for Tribal Areas. PREVENTION AND DIVERSION: • ESG and ESG-CV • Identify and support people who are living in permanent supportive housing or • SSVF (Veterans) being served by rapid rehousing programs who may be at highest risk of losing their • TANF can provide financial assistance to prevent loss of housing. housing. • Implement jurisdiction-wide moratoria on evictions. • Philanthropic funding STRENGTHENING SYSTEMS FOR THE FUTURE: • Administrative funds from block grants. • Integrate homelessness response within general public health response through • CoC Planning funds can be used to plan for integration of partnerships among Public Health Department, Emergency Management homelessness and public health. Departments, health care partners, housing agencies, and Continuum of Care. • CoC HMIS, ESG and ESG-CV for data collection and analysis. • Integrate all relevant data into HMIS, including data on the use of overflow • Philanthropic dollars for racial justice and equity analysis. congregate and non-congregate shelter for future planning purposes. • Engage people with lived expertise of homelessness and peers into all elements of planning and implementation. • Document and assess the impact of COVID-19 on disproportionately impacted communities, especially communities of color, and create planning structures and partnerships to develop strategies to eliminate such disparities. Page 6 of 16 National Alliance to End Homelessness Center on Budget and Policy Priorities PHASE 1: IMMEDIATE ACTIONS (WHICH SHOULD ALREADY BE UNDERWAY) Public Health Response: Emergency Protective Measures Initial Focus Is on: Equitably protecting ALL people experiencing homelessness from COVID-19 infection and illness, helping flatten curve of community infections and reducing demand on health care resources, integrated within public health and emergency response. Action Priorities Strategic Use of Funding1 • Ensure strategies and communications efforts have broad geographic reach, including into rural areas of community and in support of Native American communities. Page 7 of 16 National Alliance to End Homelessness Center on Budget and Policy Priorities PHASE 2: SHORT-TERM ACTIONS (WHICH SHOULD BE UNDERWAY OR SHOULD BE BEGUN NOW) Public Health and Economic Recovery Response: Re-Housing Add Greater Focus on: Effective and equitable use of resources to re-house people experiencing sheltered and unsheltered homelessness. Action Priorities Strategic Use of Funding2 UNSHELTERED PERSONS: • FEMA Public Assistance: Category B-Emergency Protective • Ensure full reach of, and monitor initiatives to, screen, test, and safely shelter or Measures for hygiene resources for unsheltered persons and house people who are unsheltered, and support people who remain unsheltered to expand outreach. This terminates at the end of the declared implement safer social distancing, sanitation, hygiene, and harm reduction practices. public health crisis. Ensure all assistance is trauma-informed. • ESG or ESG-CV for outreach and other services for people in • Engage people with lived expertise and grass roots organizations, faith-based unsheltered locations. institutions, etc., to reach out to people experiencing homelessness, especially in • CDBG or CDBG-CV can be used for essential services for people areas where shelter is scarce and unsheltered people may be staying in less visible in unsheltered locations. locations. • Federal Coronavirus Relief Fund funding provided to State and local jurisdictions. • Philanthropic funding to engage people with lived expertise. SHELTERS: • FEMA Public Assistance: Category B to pay for Emergency • Scale up additional non-congregate shelter options for people who are high-risk, Protective Measures, including non-congregate shelter and people who are symptomatic, people who need to be relocated to deconcentrate congregate shelter. Authorization is usually provided in 30-day shelters, and people in unsheltered locations, as needed. increments. • Ensure that adequate screening and testing are in place in homeless shelters and • ESG, ESG-CV, CDBG, CDBG-CV for shelter operations and ensure safety of people staying in congregate and non-congregate shelter settings; services. monitor and adjust as needed. • Federal Coronavirus Relief Fund funding provided to State and • Implement protocols to ensure that no one is purposefully exited from any of new local jurisdictions. sheltering facilities into unsafe congregate shelters or unsheltered homelessness • HHS/CDC COVID-19 funds through state and local jurisdictions and provide individual units for those who exit quarantine or isolation shelters and for a variety of public health activities, including “Controlling cannot return to their original location. COVID-19 in high-risk settings and protect vulnerable or high- • Assess whether equitable access to new and existing shelter facilities is being risk populations.” provided to people of color and examine data to determine if there are other • CSBG COVID/CARES funding flows through Community Action disparities to be addressed, such as by race, ethnicity, disability, gender status, family Agencies for services to low income persons, including people composition, etc. experiencing homelessness. 2Communities should look to combine current and new funding streams to address emerging needs. Communities should also seek non-traditional partners that reach into underserved and marginalized communities. Page 8 of 16 National Alliance to End Homelessness Center on Budget and Policy Priorities PHASE 2: SHORT-TERM ACTIONS (WHICH SHOULD BE UNDERWAY OR SHOULD BE BEGUN NOW) Public Health and Economic Recovery Response: Re-Housing Add Greater Focus on: Effective and equitable use of resources to re-house people experiencing sheltered and unsheltered homelessness. Action Priorities Strategic Use of Funding2 • Runaway and Homeless Youth programs are eligible for CARES Act/RHY supplemental funds ($25 million). • Domestic Violence Programs can access Family Violence Prevention and Services CARES Act funding ($45 million). • State and local discretionary funds. HOUSING: • CoC Planning and HMIS for developing equity-based decision • Use data to project need for different housing interventions (permanent supportive structures. housing, rapid rehousing, affordable rental housing subsidies, etc.) and to inform • CoC Program (PSH and RRH) including the Youth Homelessness equity-based decisions and begin to identify resources that can support interventions Demonstration Program. at scale needed. • HUD/SNAPS Technical Assistance to stand up emergency • Stand up new housing tracking and lease-up protocols, if needed, to closely track housing tracking and lease-up protocols. unit availability and minimize time to lease up. • ESG and ESG-CV (RRH) • Begin to scale new investments into permanent housing options, including re- • CDBG-CV for essential services. housing people from congregate or unsheltered locations, modifying coordinated entry policies and protocols as necessary. • Mainstream systems (including Community Health Centers) for services. • Scale landlord engagement activities to ensure that people are housed quickly, and that tenant-based rental assistance can be mobilized efficiently. • HOME TBRA • Monitor data to ensure that exits to housing are equitable and that returns to • HOPWA (for People Living with HIV/AIDS) homelessness are not racially or otherwise disproportionate. • Public Housing Authorities (Public Housing and Housing Choice • Ensure people in housing are linked to appropriate services, including health care Vouchers) and employment services. • HUD-VASH/Tribal HUD-VASH (Veterans) • SSVF (Veterans) • CSBG COVID/CARES funding (through Community Action Agencies) • TANF • Workforce Development Boards • Funds administered through HUD’s Office of Native American Programs for Tribal Areas. Page 9 of 16 National Alliance to End Homelessness Center on Budget and Policy Priorities PHASE 2: SHORT-TERM ACTIONS (WHICH SHOULD BE UNDERWAY OR SHOULD BE BEGUN NOW) Public Health and Economic Recovery Response: Re-Housing Add Greater Focus on: Effective and equitable use of resources to re-house people experiencing sheltered and unsheltered homelessness. Action Priorities Strategic Use of Funding2 • State and local discretionary funding. PREVENTION AND DIVERSION: • ESG and ESG-CV • Scale up efforts to prevent loss of housing among people who are living in • SSVF (Veterans) permanent supportive housing or being served by rapid rehousing programs. • TANF • Assess homelessness services system’s current diversion practices and establish • Philanthropic funding strengthened practices and increased capacity, including tailoring support for households whose support networks have fewer resources. STRENGTHENING SYSTEMS FOR THE FUTURE: • Philanthropic funds for development of equity-based decision • Implement equity-based decision making in order to promote equitable outcomes making and planning tools and coordination with mainstream for highly impacted communities. systems. • Monitor and assess data to ensure that tests are being administered equitably, and • CoC and ESG/ESG-CV to monitor and assess data collected to ensure that screening and referral processes are yielding appropriate outcomes through HMIS. across race, ethnicity, gender status, sexual orientation, and disability status. • CoC Planning for developing partnerships to plan regarding • Create planning structures and partnerships that can assess racially-based health disparities. disparities and develop remediation strategies. • Establish links to employment services and jobs, and use data to ensure that employment, income, and access to benefits outcomes are equitable. Page 10 of 16 National Alliance to End Homelessness Center on Budget and Policy Priorities PHASE 3: MEDIUM-TERM ACTIONS (WHICH SHOULD BE UNDERWAY OR BEGUN NO LATER THAN IN THE NEXT 30 DAYS) Economic Response: Homelessness and Eviction Prevention Add Greater Focus on: Reducing new entries into homelessness through prevention and diversion strategies Action Priorities Strategic Use of Funding UNSHELTERED PERSONS: • ESG or ESG-CV for outreach and other services for people in • Examine situation of those who remain unsheltered; assess whether they remain unsheltered locations. unsheltered because of lack of beds available or because assistance being offered is • CDBG or CDBG-CV can be used for essential services for people unacceptable to them; and take individualized, trauma-informed steps to assist in unsheltered locations. remaining unsheltered people into shelter or housing that is acceptable to them. • FEMA Public Assistance: Category B authorization is usually • Establish regular support for any who prefer to remain unsheltered including help to provided in 30-day increments. achieve safe social distancing, sanitation, hygiene, and harm reductions practices, and • Federal Coronavirus Relief Fund funding provided to State and provide access to healthy food, health and behavioral health services, clean and local jurisdictions. weather-appropriate clothing and bedding, etc. SHELTERS: • FEMA Public Assistance: Category B to pay for Emergency • Further scale up additional non-congregate shelter options for people who are high- Protective Measures, including non-congregate shelter and risk, people who are symptomatic, people who need to quarantine, people who need congregate shelter. Authorization is usually provided in 30-day to be relocated to deconcentrate shelters, and people in unsheltered locations, until increments. all need is met. • ESG, ESG-CV, CDBG, CDBG-CV for shelter operations and • Continue to monitor the screening and testing of people staying in congregate and services. non-congregate shelter settings to ensure their safety, and adjust as needed. • Federal Coronavirus Relief Fund funding provided to State and • Monitor effectiveness of protocols to ensure that no one is purposefully exited from local jurisdictions. any of new sheltering facilities into unsheltered homelessness, and adjust as • HHS/CDC COVID-19 funds through state and local jurisdictions needed. for a variety of public health activities, including “Controlling • Expand housing-focused case management services and housing subsidy resources COVID-19 in high-risk settings and protect vulnerable or high- within shelters to support people to exit to housing. risk populations.” • Initiate planning for new or sustained non-congregate shelter capacity to replace • CSBG COVID/CARES funding flows through Community Action congregate shelters. Agencies for services to low income persons, including people experiencing homelessness. • Runaway and Homeless Youth programs are eligible for CARES Act/RHY supplemental funds ($25 million). • Domestic Violence Programs can access Family Violence Prevention and Services CARES Act funding ($45 million). • TANF Page 11 of 16 National Alliance to End Homelessness Center on Budget and Policy Priorities PHASE 3: MEDIUM-TERM ACTIONS (WHICH SHOULD BE UNDERWAY OR BEGUN NO LATER THAN IN THE NEXT 30 DAYS) Economic Response: Homelessness and Eviction Prevention Add Greater Focus on: Reducing new entries into homelessness through prevention and diversion strategies Action Priorities Strategic Use of Funding • State and local discretionary funds HOUSING: • CoC Planning and HMIS for developing exit strategies for • Create a plan to ensure that no one who is in a hotel and motel room or other non- temporary non-congregate and congregate facilities. congregate setting exits to the street or shelter, but rather exits to permanent • CoC Coordinated Entry funds to conduct housing placement. housing. • CoC Program (PSH and RRH) including the Youth Homelessness • Develop agreements and protocols for housing high need and unsheltered Demonstration Program. populations at full scale needed, including identifying and securing funding • HUD/SNAPS Technical Assistance to stand up emergency commitments. housing tracking and lease-up protocols. • Mobilize scaled-up investments into permanent housing options to exit people from • ESG and ESG-CV (RRH) sheltered and unsheltered homelessness, with focus on the most greatly impacted populations. • CDBG-CV for employment activities and other essential services. • Work with partners including public housing authorities, health systems, state housing finance agencies and others to access short- and long-term rental subsidies • HOME TBRA for housing, including permanent supportive housing as appropriate. • HOPWA (for People Living with HIV/AIDS) • Use data to refresh projections of need for different housing interventions and to • Public Housing Authorities (Public Housing and Housing Choice examine equity impact. Vouchers) • Create critical time intervention structure to link unsheltered and other high need • HUD-VASH/Tribal HUD-VASH (Veterans) individuals who are moving into housing with appropriate services in the community, • SSVF (Veterans) including employment and employment services. • CSBG COVID/CARES funding (through Community Action • Ensure that everyone who is housed has a solid link to health care, that their home Agencies) does not present health risks (mold, lack of insulation, etc.), that children have a pediatrician, and that they can access health care facilities. • Funds administered through HUD’s Office of Native American Programs for Tribal Areas. • Sustain robust landlord engagement strategies to ensure that people are housed quickly and that tenant-based rental subsidies can be utilized quickly and efficiently. • State and local discretionary funding PREVENTION AND DIVERSION: • ESG and ESG-CV • Implement system-wide diversion strategies, including financial assistance and • SSVF (Veterans) problem-solving services, across homelessness assistance system. • TANF Page 12 of 16 National Alliance to End Homelessness Center on Budget and Policy Priorities PHASE 3: MEDIUM-TERM ACTIONS (WHICH SHOULD BE UNDERWAY OR BEGUN NO LATER THAN IN THE NEXT 30 DAYS) Economic Response: Homelessness and Eviction Prevention Add Greater Focus on: Reducing new entries into homelessness through prevention and diversion strategies Action Priorities Strategic Use of Funding • Implement expanded homelessness and eviction prevention services, through • Philanthropic funding flexible models of financial assistance and other services, with focus on those with lowest incomes (0-30% of AMI) and greatest risks of loss of housing. • Ensure prevention funding is being provided to community-based organizations and/or non-traditional partners best able to reach into highly-impacted communities. • Identify and engage partner systems (TANF, Unemployment, Child Welfare, Justice) to strengthen their prevention activities. STRENGTHENING SYSTEMS FOR THE FUTURE: • Philanthropic funds for strategic planning. • Assess likely impacts of cessation of eviction moratoria, rent forbearance, • CoC and ESG/ESG-CV to monitor and assess data collected unemployment compensation, individual payments, and other policies on through HMIS. homelessness. • CoC Planning for developing partnerships to plan regarding • Continue to closely monitor data on households receiving assistance, households disparities. exiting homelessness, and households returning to homelessness to ensure that • TANF there are not inequities in access and outcomes. • Assess impact of equity-based decision-making and make mid-course corrections to program design to ensure equitable outcomes. Page 13 of 16 National Alliance to End Homelessness Center on Budget and Policy Priorities PHASE 4: LONGER-TERM ACTIONS (WHICH SHOULD BE BEGUN NO LATER THAN IN THE NEXT 30 TO 60 DAYS) Economic Recovery and Public Health Preparedness: Long Term Change Add Greater Focus on: Strengthening systems to be better prepared for future crises and advance racial equity Action Priorities Strategic Use of Funding3 UNSHELTERED PERSONS: • ESG or ESG-CV for outreach and other services for people in • Continue to provide any unsheltered people who have not agreed to come in to unsheltered locations. temporary or permanent housing with food, hygiene equipment, sanitation • CDBG or CDBG-CV can be used for essential services for people services, harm reduction supports, and other assistance to meet basic needs. in unsheltered locations. • Ensure that any people who remain unsheltered are being regularly contacted and • Federal Coronavirus Relief Fund funding provided to State and engaged, screened, and tested as needed, and are receiving re-housing, health, local jurisdictions. behavioral health, and other trauma-informed services as needed. SHELTERED: • Philanthropic funding for long-term strategic planning on • Initiate planning to eliminate congregate shelters in favor of shelters with private emergency shelter configuration. rooms and bathrooms to address general and long-term public health issues, • ESG or ESG-CV for winding down auxiliary shelter operations. trauma, etc. Such shelters should be low-barrier and housing-focused. • Federal Coronavirus Relief Fund funding provided to State and • Begin to implement activities for closing non-congregate shelters if no longer local jurisdictions. needed in public health response or for long-term supply of shelter. HOUSING: • CoC Coordinated Entry funds to conduct housing placement • Continue to mobilize scaled-up investments into permanent housing options, • CoC Program (PSH and RRH) including the Youth Homelessness including permanent supportive housing as needed, to exit people from unsheltered Demonstration Program. homelessness and from shelters, including from new sheltering options created. • Mainstream systems for services • Implement multi-sector efforts to project and meet current and future needs for • CDBG-CV for employment activities and other essential housing at all affordability levels. services. • Connect people exiting homelessness with employment, health care, and other • ESG and ESG-CV (RRH) services. • HOME TBRA • National Housing Trust Fund • HOPWA (for People Living with HIV/AIDS) • Public Housing Authorities (Public Housing and Housing Choice Vouchers) • HUD-VASH/Tribal HUD-VASH (Veterans) • 3 Plan for spending of CARES Act funds over program period (2-3 years), including projections for program wind-down Page 14 of 16 National Alliance to End Homelessness Center on Budget and Policy Priorities PHASE 4: LONGER-TERM ACTIONS (WHICH SHOULD BE BEGUN NO LATER THAN IN THE NEXT 30 TO 60 DAYS) Economic Recovery and Public Health Preparedness: Long Term Change Add Greater Focus on: Strengthening systems to be better prepared for future crises and advance racial equity Action Priorities Strategic Use of Funding3 • SSVF (Veterans) • CSBG COVID/CARES funding (through Community Action Agencies) • TANF • Funds administered through HUD’s Office of Native American Programs for Tribal Areas • State and local discretionary funding PREVENTION AND DIVERSION: • ESG and ESG-CV • Continue to assess and strengthen the implementation of diversion strategies, and • SSVF (Veterans) use success of diversion efforts to shape planning for scale of non-congregate shelter • TANF needed. • Philanthropic funding • Support previously sheltered and unsheltered people who have moved to permanent housing to maintain health and housing stability, including regular check-ins and provision of necessary services and supports. • After meeting all the prevention needs of people with the lowest incomes (0-30% AMI), consider scaling efforts to prevent evictions due to economic crisis for higher- income populations (30-80% AMI). STRENGTHENING SYSTEMS FOR THE FUTURE: • Partnership with colleges and universities to collect and report • Strengthen coordination and partnerships between state and local public health promising practices/conduct analyses. systems and homelessness services and housing systems to both reduce • Philanthropic funds for strategic planning. homelessness and to strengthen future public health responses. • CoC and ESG/ESG-CV (including admin) to monitor and assess • Document strengths and weaknesses of response for people experiencing data collected through HMIS. homelessness within COVID-19 emergency response and develop actionable plans • CoC Planning for developing partnerships with public health that can be implemented quickly in future crises. and other mainstream systems. • Use data to quantify and then publicly communicate the inequitable health and economic impacts of COVID-19 on communities of color and marginalized communities, and develop strategies to limit such disparate impacts in the areas of health, financial well-being, and housing within future public health crises. Page 15 of 16 National Alliance to End Homelessness Center on Budget and Policy Priorities PHASE 4: LONGER-TERM ACTIONS (WHICH SHOULD BE BEGUN NO LATER THAN IN THE NEXT 30 TO 60 DAYS) Economic Recovery and Public Health Preparedness: Long Term Change Add Greater Focus on: Strengthening systems to be better prepared for future crises and advance racial equity Action Priorities Strategic Use of Funding3 • Identify and document promising practices and support all organizations to implement such practices, including equity-focused practices, and make mid-course corrections to program design to ensure equitable outcomes. Page 16 of 16 Pu ACTION PRIORITIES: Route p housed FUNDING: PRIORITIES: Utiliz funds, CACF emergency relief fun People Unhoused People Low-income Renters Homeowners/buyers Other Key Activities Economic Recovery R ACTION PRIORITIES: Support FUNDING PRIORITIES: Adopt losing ground on affordable hous People Unhoused People Low-income Renters Low-income Homeowners/buyers Other Key Activities IMMEDIATE ACTIONS - 0 to 3 months ublic Health Response: Emergency Protective Measures to Flatten the Curve people to appropriate options based on need; Focus on housing the homeless and keeping vulnerable people e State and Federal funds and Local Philanthropic Dollars primarily (CDBG-CV, federal/state/local emergency nds, etc.); Preserve local and pass-through capital funds for longer term (CDBG, HOME, CAHF, etc.) Activities • Increase outreach and create additional hygiene resources in unsheltered locations • Ensure social distancing in current congregate facilities • Rent a hotel and provide services in temporary location • Begin search for motel/hotel purchase to later convert to PSH • Implement a emergency homeless rental assistance program • Create quarantine/isolation units for unhoused people who test positive for COVID-19 or who are awaiting test results • Encourage jurisdiction-wide moratoria on evictions • Increase outreach to vulnerable renters through existing nonprofit channels • Support people in PSH • Begin search for properties for future affordable rentals • Implement a short term Landlord Rental Assistance Program • Implement a short-term emergency rent relief/eviction prevention program - prioritize unsubdidized renters • Increase outreach to vulnerable homeowners and soon to be homeowners through existing NGO channels • Implement a short term Homeowner Mortgage Assistance Program • Provide emergency finanical coaching to help people stabilize their finances • Complete/expedite almost finished subsidized homeownership homes • Complete ongoing and scheduled Emergency Repairs - prioritize vulnerable (elderly/disabled) households • Distribute masks to those who need them • Utilize existing relationships through NGOs to help distribute relief (food, funding, school supplies, etc.) • Collect data for planning • Engage people with lived expertise in planning communities of color MEDIUM-TERM ACTIONS - 6 to 12 months Response: Assess post COVID housing conditions and pass housing strategy based on new data t Development of Housing Across the Housing Continuum t Intervention Analysis Tool to strategize short/medium/long-term funding levels for interventions to ensure not sing and equity goals Activities • incrementally upgrade motel/hotel for PSH • Expand CSRAP - homeless preference • Continue providing shelter in hotels for people at high risk for complications with COVID-19 • Ensure ending moratoria do not result in evictions or unpayable debt • Engage partner systems (TANF, Child Welfare, etc.) for eviction prevention activities • Establish funded Eviction Prevention program • Expand CSRAP • Ensure priority redevelopment projects (CRHA and FC) remain fully funded • Increase financial coaching supports to help ground safely • Plan to sustain funding for affordable homeownership, use market downturn and prevent speculation/gentrification • Use data to refresh projections for interventions and assess equity impact • Engage people with lived expertise in planning • Gradually wind down temporary assistance programs in favor of longer term solutions • Adopt Housing Strategy based on achieving equity that is aligned with CIP, Comprehensive Plan and Zoning Code Public Health + Economic ACTION PRIORITIES: Support in future activity. FUNDING PRIORITIES: Invest Governments, 2) Ensure city's inv distressed properties and prevent People Unhoused People Low-income Renters Homeowners/buyers Other Key Activities Economic Reco GOAL: Strengthen systems to ad FUNDING PRIORITIES: Align t to safe, decent, affordable housin People Unhoused People Low-Income Renters Low-income Homeowners/buyers Other Key Activities SHORT-TERM ACTIONS - 3 to 6 months Recovery Response: Prevent Reentry in Homeless situations, help others remain housed, invest in ongoing and future initiatives vulnerable/low-income people across the housing continuum; Shore up existing initiatives; and begin to invest Capital Fund dollars to: 1) Bolster emergency assistance where needed and not provided by Federal and State estment in ongoing housing projects is protected, 3) Take advantage of market downturn by purchasing t housing speculation. Utilize Federal and State funding to extend short term housing assistance programs Activities • Sustain + expand efforts to support, screen, test + shelter unsheltered people • Engage people with lived expertise to increase outreach, especially in rural areas • Provide non-congregate sheltering (motels, etc.) for unsheltered people • Purchase hotel or other existing facility to keep people housed and increase overall system capacity • Extend short term homeless rental assistance program as needed • Begin aggressive landlord engagement activities to increase supply of affordable rentals • Invest in Housing Hub/housing navigation supports to assist people who lose their housing • Engage people with lived experience to increase outreach • Maintain funding commitments for ongoing public housing redevelopment/affordable housing development projects • Purchase land and/or properties for affordable rentals • Extend short term Landlord Rental Assistance/Rent Relief Program as needed credit, etc. • Compile database of local rental properties/landlords subject to moratoria • Monitor court for eviction proceedings, provide legal services to tenants • Extend short term homeowner mortgage assistance program as needed • Increase financial coaching for impacted homeowners/buyers to avoid debt accum., protect credit, navigate forbearance etc • Increase subsidies to complete/expedite in progress affordable homeownership and rehab/emergency repair projects p p p p p investors • Offer tax relief/forebearance for low-income homeowners at risk of losing their homes due to delinquent taxes • Increase down payment assistance to low-income homebuyers • Implement transparent, equity-based decision-making protocols • Partner with NGOs to update estimates about real time housing needs • Use data to project need for varying interventions and inform equity-based decisions • Engage people with lived expertise in planning • Continue development of housing strategy and add COVID-19 addendum to scope of work LONG-TERM ACTIONS - 1 to 2 years overy + Public Health Preparedness: Create a healthy and resilient housing ecosystem dvance racial equity and prepare for future crises the IAT and CIP with the goals of the City/County Housing Strategy so that everyone in Charlottesville has access ng by 2035 Activities • Finalize plan for permanently housing all unhoused people • Build and repair sufficient quality affordable rental housing to meet the demand • Build and sell affordable homes to low-income households to meet the need and provide systemic mobility • Fund home repair/energy upgrade supports for low-income households • Establish Financial Opportunity Center, inclusive of Housing Hub, to provide integrated financial and housing services • Engage people with lived expertise in planning