Explanation
Background: This ordinance authorizes the Director of the Department of Neighborhoods to enter into an advance payment in full grant agreement with Families Flourish for $150,000.00 to assist with rental subsidies to program participants while providing wraparound services and coaching in the areas of health, job training, parenting, financial literacy, and coping mechanisms in a new environment. Families Flourish helps create affordable housing in higher-resource neighborhoods and promotes a better-educated workforce. Through the partial rent support, more Columbus resident who earn low wages have options to become part of safer, healthier neighborhoods that have often been off limits to them due to zoning hurdles.
Fiscal Impact: The funding of $150,000.00 for this agreement will be transferred from the General Fund Citywide Account to the Department of Neighborhoods General Fund Budget.
Contract Compliance: Families Flourish, CC 043645, exp. 10-24-26
Emergency action is requested to avoid any delay in providing critical assistance and support as it relates to affordable housing efforts.
Title
To authorize the Director of the Department of Neighborhoods to enter into an advance payment in full grant agreement with Families Flourish, Inc. to assist with rental subsidies for program participants; to authorize the transfer of $150,000.00 within the general fund Finance Department Citywide Account and the Department of Neighborhoods; to authorize an advance payment in full; to authorize the expenditure of $150,000.00 from General Fund; and to declare an emergency ($150,000.00).
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WHEREAS, there is a need for affordable housing in higher-resourced neighborhoods; and
WHEREAS, building safer and stronger neighborhoods, promoting workforce development and jobs, and furthering the construction and maintenance of affordable housing align with City priorities; and
WHEREAS, partial rent support for participants gives families the added s...
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