[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 139 (Thursday, July 20, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 37552-37553]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-17812]




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Part III





Department of Housing and Urban Development





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Office of the Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing



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Public and Indian Housing HOPE in Youth Program: Demonstration; Notice

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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

Office of the Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing
[Docket No. FR-3841-N-03]


Public and Indian Housing HOPE in Youth Program: Notice of 
Demonstration

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian 
Housing, HUD.

ACTION: Notice of demonstration program.

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SUMMARY: This Notice announces the Department's intention to contribute 
up to $1 million from the Youth Development Initiative under the Family 
Investment Centers Program for a HOPE in Youth Demonstration to be 
administered by the Housing Authorities of the City and County of Los 
Angeles. The Demonstration is designed to leverage funds, bringing 
together combined investments through an alliance among the Housing 
Authorities of the City and County of Los Angeles, the Industrial Areas 
Foundation, church-related social service providers, and leaders of 
several major religious denominations. A Coordinating Council of this 
alliance will develop greater avenues for educational opportunities and 
supportive services for public housing youth in these communities. In 
addition, the housing authorities will be working with private sector 
institutions to provide a variety of services that enhance the 
supportive services already available to public housing youth. This 
demonstration will particularly emphasize the provision of educational 
opportunities and supportive services to attempt to break the cycle of 
poverty that often leads to crime and violence among youth. A component 
of the demonstration will be the development of replicable models with 
wider applicability. This notice provides guidelines for the use of the 
demonstration funds and invites comments on the proposed demonstration.

DATES: Comment due date: August 21, 1995.

ADDRESSES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments regarding 
this notice to the Rules Docket Clerk, Office of General Counsel, Room 
10276, Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 Seventh Street, 
SW, Washington, DC 20410-0500. Communications should refer to the above 
docket number and title. Facsimile (FAX) comments are not acceptable. A 
copy of each communication submitted will be available for public 
inspection and copying between 7:30 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. weekdays at the 
above address.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Bertha Jones, Office of Community 
Relations and Involvement, Department of Housing and Urban Development, 
451 Seventh Street SW, Room 4112, Washington, DC 20410, Telephone 
Number (202) 708-4214 (This is not a toll-free number). Hearing- or 
speech-impaired persons may use the Telecommunications Devices for the 
Deaf (TDD) by contacting the Federal Information Relay Service, on 1-
800-877-8339, for information on the program.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Authority

    Section 22 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 
1437t) provides for the establishment of Family Investment Centers 
(FIC). The final rule implementing the FIC Program for public housing 
was published on August 24, 1994 (59 FR 43622), as part 964, subpart D.
    In the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban 
Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1995 (Pub. L. 
103-327, approved September 28, 1994), Congress appropriated 
$26,342,000 for Family Investment Centers. The Department's intention 
to use the total of $10 million for Youth Development Initiative 
activities was announced in the NOFA for Public and Indian Housing 
Family Investment Centers, published on February 15, 1995 (60 FR 8900). 
On May 30, 1995 (60 FR 28304), the Department published a NOFA for 
Youth Development Initiative Under Public and Indian Housing Family 
Investment Centers (Youth Development Initiative), which announced that 
$10 million was being made available for the Youth Development 
Initiative. The Youth Development Initiative was amended on July 6, 
1995 (60 FR 35215), to clarify that $1 million of the funds was being 
set aside for a HOPE In Youth Demonstration Program, reducing the 
amount to be awarded under the Youth Development Initiative from $10 
million to $9 million.
    In accordance with the requirements of section 470(a) of the 
Housing and Urban-Rural Recovery Act of 1983 (42 U.S.C. 3542), this 
notice describes the proposed demonstration and invites public comment. 
Any changes made in this demonstration as a result of the Department's 
consideration of public comments, and any extension of time for the 
commitment of funds that may be necessary because of these changes, 
also will be published in the Federal Register.
    The Department will not commit funds for the proposed demonstration 
until after the latest of: (1) The date the Department has considered 
any comments received in response to this notice; (2) September 18, 
1995, which is 60 days after today's publication date; and (3) the date 
the Department has received and approved an application that meets the 
requirements set forth in this notice and any subsequent notice 
announcing changes in the demonstration.

Background of Demonstration

    The Los Angeles public housing community has a particular need to 
address a lack of educational opportunities, supportive services and 
lifestyle choices for its youth. The City of Los Angeles is living with 
a crisis, a generation of young people doomed to school failure and 
lack of jobs with no future. Los Angeles County has the distinction of 
being the gang capital of the world, because of the magnitude of gang-
related crimes and the sheer number (over 100,000) of gang members 
within its borders as a result of the lack of proper educational and 
training opportunities to provide alternatives to crime. Based on 1991 
statistics, gang activity has accounted for 771 homicides, more than 
two each day. This demonstration will bring into the public housing 
communities unique experiences that have proven to be successful in 
other communities outside of public housing, together with a 
coordinated team approach for reducing gang membership and preventing 
new recruitment into gang activity and crime.
    For purposes of this demonstration, the Department will make up to 
$1 million available to the Housing Authorities (HAs) of the City and 
County of Los Angeles for use in establishing a HOPE in Youth 
Demonstration to be administered in accordance with the requirements of 
the Youth Development Initiative under the Family Investment Centers 
Program. This demonstration will bring together the skills needed for 
the successful operation of a program that will build a critical mass 
of people to develop educational and employment opportunities, provide 
alternatives to crime and violence and empower public housing youth to 
become economically self-sufficient. It is designed to empower parents 
in public housing to positively influence these at-risk youth to 
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their education and to build coalitions of principled people and train 
them to rebuild the social fabric of public housing neighborhoods.
    Under the HOPE in Youth Demonstration Program, HUD will make 
available up to $500,000 each to the Housing Authorities of the City 
and County of Los Angeles, after the HA meets applicable programmatic 
and application requirements. The HOPE In Youth Demonstration is unique 
in a number of ways. It involves an innovative collaboration between 
two housing authorities whose combined jurisdictions cover a large 
metropolitan area. In addition, the housing authorities will be working 
with private sector institutions to provide a variety of services to 
enhance the supportive services available to public housing residents. 
The demonstration will also focus on education and supportive services 
aimed at strengthening families through parenting classes, mentoring, 
helping parents understand their role in supporting schools and helping 
parents to know how to communicate with their children.

Applicable Requirements

    In order to receive the funding proposed in this notice, the 
Housing Authorities of the City and County of Los Angeles will be 
required to meet the applicable programmatic and submission 
requirements set forth in the NOFA for the Youth Development Initiative 
under Family Investment Centers Program published on May 30, 1995 (60 
FR 28304), as well as any subsequent notice that is published after the 
comment period for this demonstration notice has closed. If either of 
these HAs cannot fulfill its obligation, the Secretary reserves the 
right to award the entire grant to the remaining HA in accordance with 
the programmatic and application requirements.
    When applicable, the certifications, findings, determinations, and 
requirements listed by the Department under the ``Other Matters'' 
section of that NOFA also apply to this notice.

    Authority: 42 U.S.C. 1437t and 3535(d).

    Dated: July 11, 1995.
Michael B. Janis,
General Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing.
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