TO: Mayor and Commissioners
FROM: David Weatherspoon, Interim Director, Neighborhood and Community Services
THROUGH: Chief Neal de Jesus, Interim City Manager
DATE: August 20, 2019
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STATE HOUSING INITIATIVES PARTNERSHIP LOCAL HOUSING ASSISTANCE PLAN (LHAP) FY2019-2022
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RECOMMENDATION:
Recommendation
Motion to authorize and approve the revised Local Housing Assistance Plan (LHAP) for Fiscal Years 2019-2022, pursuant to Title 67-37 of the Florida Administrative Code.
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BACKGROUND:
For the past twenty-seven (27) years, the City has received funds under the State Housing Initiatives Partnership (SHIP) Program. SHIP funds are generated from a portion of documentary stamp taxes collected throughout the State and held in the State’s Housing Trust Fund for the development and maintenance of affordable housing. The State requires a Local Housing Assistance Plan (LHAP) outlining how the City plans to administer the SHIP funds once they are received. On February 23, 1993, under Ordinance #2-93, the City Commission established a Local Housing Assistance Program created the Local Housing Trust Fund and created the Affordable Housing Advisory Committee to comply with various sections of Title 67 of the Florida Administrative Code. The Neighborhood Services Division staff administers the program and under the approved plans, has assisted Delray Beach residents with homeownership, housing rehabilitation, and foreclosure prevention opportunities.
The following strategies were recently approved in the attached Local Housing Assistance Plan for 2019-2022:
1) Purchase Assistance; 2) Owner-Occupied Rehabilitation Assistance; 3) Land Acquisition; 4) Disaster Relief Assistance; 5) Sub-Recipient Housing Partnership Program (Community Land Trust); 6) Foreclosure Prevention; 7) Rapid Rehousing (Rental Assistance), as well as several incentives within the LHAP, that may be implemented during the next three years. The LHAP is based on the curre...
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