OHFA Annual Plan - Ohio Housing Finance Agency

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3. The State should assist local Continuums of Care that have underutilized federal HUDMcKinney Vento funds available for PSH.Rationale: In 2007 alone, approximately $4 million of federal McKinney-Vento fundswere left unapplied for and therefore lost to the state of Ohio due to local capacity andinadequate numbers of new PSH projects.4. Develop performance measures and common standards for quality PSH and adopt themacross multiple state agencies that invest in PSH.Rationale: Investors and technically assistance providers such as the Community ShelterBoard, Enterprise Community Partners, and the Corporation for Supportive Housing havefound that performance outcomes and quality of PSH varies from location to location.5. Develop a business plan across the state agencies whose constituents are identifiedin this report needing supportive housing. The business plan should include a multi-yearapproach to developing units to meet the need; common terminology and definitions; local/state collaboration; methods for complimentary use of resources; consistent methods fordata collection across multiple systems; method for reporting out results; identify an easiercoordinated process for accessing state resources. 15Rationale: In Minnesota, a statewide business plan to develop PSH called for by theGovernor, led to greater targeted investment in PSH development. 166. Preserve existing state resources targeting PSH in the current biennium and futurebiennium budgets.Rationale: Research and data collected around PSH provides policy makers withirrefutable evidence that PSH is a very strategic investment with an excellent rate ofreturn. Ohio and its citizens are paying dearly for the lack of investment in PSH – throughavoidable trips to emergency rooms, involvement with the criminal justice system at thestate and local level, demands upon shelters and behavioral health crisis services, andother emergency services. There is also the human cost associated with the expensiveoption of status quo. Therefore, it is recommended that Ohio preserve state resourcesaimed at PSH and be open to considering new options for funding of PSH in the future.For example, the Ohio Housing Trust Fund revenues used by OHFA and ODOD for PSHdevelopment, operations and services should continue at increasing levels to addressincreased costs.7. Create a new PSH Gap Program to provide funding for services and operations.Rationale: A new Bundled Supportive Housing Subsidy would fill the critical operationsand essential service funding gaps of new and existing PSH projects. The PSH GapProgram would fill gaps specifically for on-site service coordination and operating PSHwith new ongoing source of revenue.15In order to make informed decisions, policy-makers must be aware of concerns among advocates about the best approachesto public policy. Insufficient funding for PSH creates a conflict about where resources are best directed. Tension arises betweenefforts dealing with homelessness on a local community level and efforts seeking to broadly direct resources at possible points ofentry into homelessness.Local communities are sometimes suspicious of non-community based programs that if ineffectively administered, direct PSHresources - including units - to helping people for whom PSH may not be appropriate. Local communities have a strong need forassistance in reducing the immediate burden on local resources to continuously shelter and provide emergency assistance to peoplethat are homeless now. Organizations with a focus broader than a local community’s plan make a case that resources should bedirected towards populations at risk of homelessness (e.g. those exiting public institutions).The tension between those focal points necessarily enters into the public policy debate over PSH. To be certain, the debate is notabout the “right” thing to do for homeless people and (contrary to some belief) housing professionals understand that PSH is notthe solution for ending all homelessness. The conflict is primarily about prioritizing limited funds.16Minnesota Housing Finance Agency, Heading Home 2010, Minnesota’s Business Plan to End Long Term Homelessness, AvailableInternet: http://www.mnhousing.gov/initiatives/housing-assistance/homelessness/index.aspx34
Resource InventoryThe Subject Matter Workgroups created an inventory of existing programs and resourcesdirected to the identified housing needs; this inventory is the only such housing itemizationthat exists in the State of Ohio.35
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Page 8 and 9: The State’s Housing NeedsAffordab
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Page 12 and 13: 3. Financial LiteracyOHFA and other
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Page 20 and 21: 3) Create dedicated funding streams
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Page 49 and 50: APPENDIXWorkgroup 1: Affordable Hom
Page 51 and 52: Executive SummaryHousing Need Descr
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Primary Recommendations• Create a
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Unmet Housing Needs:• Due to the
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Recommendations for Annual Plan Adv
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Action is needed at the State level
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a “user-friendly” data system,
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5) Incentivize the formation of bro
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