Appropriating $20,000 Community Development Block Grant Fund Emergency Repair Housing Services

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CITY Of SOUTH BEND PETER J. NEMETH, Mayor COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM Carl Ellison Director Jon R. Hunt Deputy Director V. LaMar Wilson Assistant Director October 18, 1978 �O rn 1440 County -City Building South Bend, Indiana 46601 219/284 -9335 M E M O R A N D U M TO: MEMBERS OF THE COMMON COUNCIL FROM: CARL ELLISON, DIRECTOR, COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT SUBJECT: 1978 CDBG APPROPRIATION (URBAN LEAGUE EMERGENCY REPAIR HOUSING SERVICE) The Division of Community Development is presenting for your consid- eration a bill appropriating $20,000 to be used by the Urban League for an "emergency repair housing service." The $20,000.00 appropriation would be used as a match for Title XX monies to generate approximately $80,000 for the emergency repair program. Client eligibility would be based on Title XX and CDBG income guidelines. It is anticipated that 60% of the clients would be SSI or AFDC recipients and 40% would be "income eligible." The Community Development staff believes an emergency repair program would highly complement our existing CDBG housing services. It has been our experience that low -and moderate - income persons must a _ ionate share of their income for housing and are under extreme financcialt hardship to make necessary housing repairs. We envision this emergency service as a "prevention measure" to curb deterioration of units prior to their becoming in serious disrepair and probable candidates for demolition. The service will provide up to $1,000 of repair to eligible households. This $1,000 limit will include a maximum of $400 of materials and $600 labor costs. Based on these figures, we anticipate approximately eighty to a hundred units being repaired. In addition, we see this emergency repair service as a means to enable a considerable number of low -to moderate - income families to qualify for the Housing Allowance Program. This subsidy can then serve to financial) assist them in providing necessary home repair maintenance on an ongoing basis. Y