DEPARTMENT: Planning and Community Development
DEPARTMENT HEAD: John Dugan
COUNCIL DISTRICTS IMPACTED: District 5
SUBJECT:
Authorizing co-application submission of grant application to HUD and pledging match for Westside Choice
SUMMARY:
This Ordinance ratifies the submission of a grant application to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for the Choice Neighborhoods Planning Grants Program as a co-applicant with the San Antonio Housing Authority (SAHA) as the lead applicant for the Westside Choice Neighborhood and pledging $200,000 in funds to be identified in the FY 2017 budget toward the required $500,000 grant match to be utilized for the implementation of action activities that will be defined through a community planning process and approved by HUD. This item also authorizes an Interlocal Agreement between the City of San Antonio and San Antonio Housing Authority that outlines the responsibilities of each entity.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
Choice Neighborhoods is HUD's signature place-based initiative designed to address struggling neighborhoods with distressed public housing and/or HUD-assisted housing through a comprehensive approach to neighborhood transformation. The Choice program helps communities transform neighborhoods by revitalizing severely distressed public and/or assisted housing and investing and leveraging investments in well-functioning services, high quality public schools and education programs, high quality early learning programs and services, crime prevention strategies, public assets, public transportation, and improved access to jobs. Choice Neighborhoods ensures that current public and assisted housing residents will be able to benefit from this transformation, by preserving affordable housing or providing residents with the choice to move to affordable and accessible housing in another existing neighborhood of opportunity. Choice Neighborhoods is focused on three core goals:
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