HomeMy WebLinkAbout081123 Housing Fund Board - Data and Needs Assessment Meeting NotesHousing Fund Board - Data and Needs Assessment Committee Meeting
August 11, 2023
Present: Viki Sontag - facilitator, Julia Cochrane - scribe, Lara Barnum - Olycap, Heather Dudley-Nollette, Cheryl Weinstein - Dove House
Emerging Needs - Training, accountability, culture, and salary levels - HR needs for housing/service provider employees. Services are under resourced affecting quality of service delivery.
Most employees do not make median wage.
Meeting Process: Check-ins - “Watermelon” safe word to keep us on track. Use rounds for decision-making.
Changes in State Funding – See attached Presentation
Senate Bill 5386 - Discussion including Review of Homeless System Performance County Report Card for Jefferson County
Matching planning on the Demand Side (Homeless Housing and Assistance Act and local plans) to Supply Side (Housing Element of the GMA)
Supply Side – Basic unit is housing units
Housing Supply planning by income bracket
71.5% of units needed out of 4,000 total additional units required over the next 20 years are in the 0 - 80% range.
DOC Homeless and affordable Housing Needs Estimates - HAPT
Estimate of AH Units Needed to house Current Homeless: 739 unduplicated homeless count (from HMIS/Snapshot data) adjusted for undercount equates to 1033 AH units needed to house current
homeless.
Current Number of emergency and transition beds 58 (177 by local count)
Current Number of Affordable Housing Units including PSH: 5765
2044 Projected Emergency Housing Need: 614 Beds
2044 Additional Affordable Units Needed including PSH: 2848
Of over 4,000 units needed to meet growth more than half (2200) are needed to address current unmet affordable housing needs.
Question regarding why use length of time as an adjustment factor in current and future bed estimates to account for underestimate of homeless in HMIS/Snapshot. (Answer: It is good
for estimating number of beds needed when average length of stay is less than year.)
Comprehensive plan periodic update due June 30 2025
HAPT Tool
80% AMI and below is affordable; 80-120% AMI is Work Force Housing (Discussion of whether Starrett House is affordable or workforce housing by planning definitions of affordable/workforce.
Target is 80% AMI and under.) Future discussion on consistency in using definitions for workforce versus affordable housing.
Data shows that lack of AH units is both causing homelessness and keeping people in homelessness longer
Demand Side -
Certain level of Supportive Housing Case management is needed for people newly housed
PSH - funding available (up to 50% AMI) – dependent on chronic homeless and disability.
No funding for above 50%
New Homeless Projection Factors -
Severe Rent Burdened (% of household income spent on rent) - 2.753%-2.919% incidence rate
Foster Care - 3-5% incidence rate
Wait List Definition Discussion - Deferred
Process for Housing Inventory Spreadsheet Review - Send to providers for verification
What are the human factors besides trauma that unsheltered people share, such as writing and owning pets?
Next Meeting – Dove House, September 9th (2nd Friday) at 9:30