Explanation
BACKGROUND: This ordinance authorizes the appropriation and expenditure in an amount up to $500,000.00 of grant funding from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), through the HOME Investment Partnerships Program American Rescue Plan (HOME-ARP) and authorizes the Director of Development to enter into a Subrecipient Not For Profit Service Contract with National Church Residences (NCR) for the purpose of providing supportive services at the Berwyn East Place. The supportive services will help those individuals that reside at Berwyn East that struggle with homelessness, mental illness, and substance abuse. That expenditures prior to the issuance of the purchase order are authorized beginning December 1, 2025 through July 31, 2030.
Berwyn East Place provides eighty-eight (88), one-bedroom units of permanent supportive housing prioritized for low-income senior residents who meet the State of Ohio’s Permanent Supportive Housing Policy Framework. The units will be reserved for seniors with low-income who can benefit from on-site services to best address the needs of those elderly that are frail and have advanced geriatric conditions complicated by homelessness and housing insecurity. Supportive Services will be provided for all HOME ARP eligible residents of Berwyn East Place. The construction of this project was authorized by City Council on March 25, 2024 via Ordinance Number 0735-2024. This legislation is authorizing the supportive services that will be provided to those residents that meets HUD’s definition of chronic homelessness.
Berwyn East Place is an innovative new “triple blend” service enriched, supportive housing model whereby rental subsidy, care coordination, as well as health and wellness services are offered to the low-income senior residents. This innovative supportive housing model will in part target older adults having experienced long-term homelessness with a concurrent disabling condition in the form of ad...
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