FINAL 2018 Housing & Community Development Action Plan

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The ESG Program in the City of South Bend is receiving $212,959 in 2018 for emergency shelter and ' rapid rehousing activities that serve the community's homeless population. ESG grant matching requirements will be satisfied using funds from other federal, state, and private dollars. ' Numerous sources of funding are expected to be available to supplement the federal dollars for Supporting Homeowners and Helping Renters become Homeowners. In addition to annual CDBG and ' HOME funds, private local financial institution support, and general community donations are anticipated. A consortium of six local financial institutions will continue to pool resources to provide mortgage assistance to new homeowners through the Community Homebuyers Corporation (CHC) ' program. Rebuilding Together will rehab homes with CDBG dollars and local labor and material donations. South Bend Home Improvement Program (SBHIP) will rehab owner-occupied homes with CDBG. Housing counseling will be made available through CDBG, South Bend city resources and state dollars via the Indiana Foreclosure Prevention Network. Additionally, in 2011, the Hardest Hit Funds Program was added to the pool of assistance to those facing foreclosure. These sources fund the counseling activity that supports the efforts to asssist homeownership. Over 200 households are expected to attend a counseling session and or class in 2018. 3. Evaluation of past performance This is an evaluation of past performance that helped lead the grantee to choose its goals or ' projects. The City has a long history of successfully partnering with Community Development Corporations (CDCs) to create affordable housing, both rental and owner-occupied. This partnership also provided the means to create community meeting spaces and improve public facilities in low-mod income neighborhoods. In addition, the City administers an owner-occupied home rehab program, and annually provides additional homeowner assistance with CDBG funds to Rebuilding Together and REAL Services, Inc. for home rehabs. Direct homeownership assistance was provided to low-mod income first-time homebuyers through the Community Homebuyers Corporation homebuyer assistance program. , Public facilities improvements are a high priority, and will be funded with CDBG in 2018. To ensure compliance with applicable requirements, every CDBG, HOME and ESG subrecipient is desktop-monitored multiple times throughout the year. This monitoring occurs with each claim for reimbursement and each application for funding that is submitted to the Department of Community Investment (DCI). All subrecipients receive feedback and/or guidance via email and phone communication, and in-person meetings with DCI staff. In addition, DCI staff conduct at least eight (8) on-site monitoring visits of sub-grantees every year to review their internal systems. As part of the monitoring visit, DCI staff meets with appropriate members of the sub-grantee staff to review , procedures, client files, financial records and other pertinent data. Any new sub-recipient is monitored in its first year of funding. Promoting Quality Rental Property is realized with the PHA's Section 8 vouchers, CDBG funds for rehab ' of existing rental units, as well as HOME funds for Tenant Based Rental Assistance. Efforts to prevent homelessness and assist the homeless are supported with Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG) funds, as well as HEARTH McKinney-Vento Homeless funds. ESG funding has been allocated for operations of emergency shelters, outreach, rapid re-housing, homeless prevention and program Annual Action Plan 2 ' 2018 OMB Control No:2506-0117(exp.06/30/2018) '