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Homes for Arizonans Day
December 17, 2004
February 14, 2005 is the date for the 3rd annual Homes for Arizonans day celebration.
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HUD Final 2005 "Fair Market Rents (FMRs)
October 8, 2004
Please review carefully!
Many changes to rural areas including major increases in some FMR's and actual decreases in other areas.
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced the final fiscal year 2005 fair market rents (FMRs) in today's edition of the Federal Register. These annually adjusted values are used to determine, among other things, the standard payments amounts for the federal Housing Choice Voucher program.
The final FMRs issued today depart markedly from the proposed FMRs that the department presented for public comment on August 6. The proposed FMRs had incorporated new metropolitan area definitions devised by the President's Office of Management and Budget (OMB) along with more recent Census data. During the comment period, however, officials from public housing agencies and housing and homelessness advocates expressed concern that the new calculations did not realistically reflect the cost of available rental housing and would result in significantly adverse effects for families in need of housing assistance.
In its notice today, the department responded: "As a result of public comments and further consideration of the proposed FMRs, HUD determined that there was sufficient reason to not use the new OMB metropolitan area definitions in calculating the final FY2005 FMRs. The final FY2005 FMRs provided in this publication are therefore based on the most recent available data but use the same FMR area definitions used in the FY2004
FMR publication, which were based on old OMB metropolitan area definitions."
To access the final FMR data, see http://www.huduser.org/datasets/fmr.html
To read the notice in the Federal Register, see under "Housing and Urban Development" at http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/fedreg/a041001c.html
Arizona Program Evaluation
September 28, 2004
Information and documents about the Arizona Program Evaluation project are now available for review or download. These documents were discussed at the National HMIS Conference in a presentation by Charlene Moran Flaherty as well as at the recent Continuum meetings in Phoenix, Tucson, and Flagstaff.
>>Visit the Program Evaluation page
2004 Continuum of Care Application
July 19, 2004
The Rural AZ CoC does it AGAIN! The Arizona Department of Housing, as lead applicant, submitted the 2004 HUD Continuum of Care application on July 16, 2004 totaling nearly $3 million. This includes 18 renewal projects (including HMIS and 2 new projects (1 in Yuma and La Paz for 25 units serving persons with major mental illnesses within a Housing First model and 6 units in Yavapai County serving Veterans with major mental illnesses).
New this year is the scoring of Exhibit 1 of this application in the areas of persons moving from transitional to permanent housing; we have a "fairly good" amount of 79%, and persons remaining in permanent supportive housing longer than 6 months; we have a "high" amount of 86%.
One of the areas with great improvement for which we are also scored is the amount of pledged leverage (of resources to persons homeless) and in this years 2004 application there was a remarkable increase of $850,000!!
Scores of the application along with award announcements are anticipated in late December 2004.
The HMIS Virtual Classroom in Now Available!
July 9, 2004
The Rural Arizona HMIS Virtual Classroom is now open! Symmetric Solutions has set up a new “HMIS Virtual Classroom” that will be used for Rural HMIS training classes. The HMIS Virtual Classroom combines the use of web & audio conferencing technology along with HMIS training so users do not have to travel to attend regional training classes and trainers do not have to travel across the state to deliver brief training classes. Thus, Rural HMIS users can receive training through the Internet and phone without leaving their own office. The HMIS Virtual Classroom will be used for advanced and supplemental training courses, typically of one or two hour durations. We will continue to have live, regional training courses for the initial End-User training classes and Agency Administrator training classes and will continue to provide onsite follow-up training and go live support at each agency’s site.
HUD SuperNOFA Released
May 20, 2004
The 2004 HUD SuperNOFA has been released. All documents relating to the SuperNOFA can be downloaded from the HUD website at:
http://www.hud.gov/offices/adm/grants/fundsavail.cfm
The deadline for submission to ADOH for all Rural Arizona New and Renewal Projects is June 11, 2004. Any organization that wishes to apply for a "New" project should contact Vicki VanDreel at ADOH IMMEDIATELY. Vicki can be reached at (602) 771-1024 or vickiv@housingaz.com.
HUD Awards Nearly $3 Million, a "Record Amount" to Rural Arizona Continuum of Care
December 19, 2003
In response to the 2003 HUD Rural AZ Continuum of Care application, submitted by the Arizona Department of Housing for Homeless Housing Assistance, totaling 257 pages and consisting of nineteen (19) housing projects, HUD has awarded $2,852,495.00.
The Rural AZ CofC has been officially awarded by HUD, as of today, $2,852,495.00. Arizona in total from all 3 CofC's received a record amount of $23,867,210 award from the US Dept. of HUD/Bush Administration.
Essentially, all of you who submitted renewals received your renewals AT THE EXACT amount submitted.
In the weeks to come Vic Hudenko and Vicki VanDreel will have a telephonic review with HUD state/local and HUD Headquarters/DC to review the actual score given to the continuum.
Worth mentioning, especially, is the following:
The NEW Bonus Project (housing first/chronic homeless model - for 2 counties w/o McKinney-Vento Homeless projects) for Graham, Greenlee, and Santa Cruz were funded for a total of 5 years (locks up a housing resource for many yrs.) was funded at $ 677,040.00.
This large amount is rather good considering these are rural area.
The Department of Housing was awarded the HMIS project exactly as submitted; $ 157,500.00
Thanks to all of you for the utmost dedication in serving persons and families homeless in rural AZ!!
HMIS: The Promise of Information to End Homelessness
from the Arizona Department of Housing Fall 2003 E-letter, Vol. 2, No. 4, released October 2003
© 2003 by the State of Arizona, Arizona Department of Housing.
ADOH staff attended a HUD-required conference in July with the theme "HMIS: The Promise of Information to End Homelessness". The purpose of the conference was to unveil federally-mandated data collection requirements for the Homeless Management Information System (HMIS) and provide guidance and training on the implementation of data systems to collect Congressionally-required unduplicated count of the numbers and demographics of the homeless population nationally. ADOH has already assisted two urban Continuum of Care coalitions (Maricopa and Pima Counties) and has begun work to complete planning for a rural Continuum of Care as a final phase of the rollout of the data systems. The implementation of this data system was only possible in Arizona through the use of Housing Trust Fund dollars as the federal resources available for this implementation are limited. Once implementation is completed, data from all Continuums in Arizona will be aggregated to provide an overall state picture of our homeless population and services.
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