[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 206 (Wednesday, October 23, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 55009-55010]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-27116]


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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

[Docket No. FR-4012-N-03]


Office of the Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and 
Development; Announcement of Funding Awards for Housing Opportunities 
for Persons With AIDS Program Fiscal Year 1996

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and 
Development, HUD.

ACTION: Notice of funding awards.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with section 102(a)(4)(C) of the Department of 
Housing and Urban Development Reform Act of 1989, this notice announces 
the funding decisions made by the Department in a competition for 
funding under the Fiscal Year 1996 Housing Opportunities for Persons 
with AIDS (HOPWA) program. The notice contains the names of award 
winners and the amounts of the awards.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Fred Karnas, Jr., Director, Office of 
HIV/TAIDS Housing, Department of Housing and Urban Development, Room 
7154, 451 Seventh Street, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20410, telephone (202) 
708-1934. The TDD number for the hearing impaired is (202) 708-2565. 
(These are not toll-free numbers). Information on HOPWA, community 
development and consolidated planning, and other HUD programs may also 
be obtained from the Community Connections information center at 1-800-
998-9999 (voice) or 1-800-483-2209 (TDD); by e-mail at 
[email protected]; or by internet at gopher://amcom.aspensys.com. The 
HUD Home Page address on the World Wide Web is http://www.hud.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The purpose of the competition was to award 
grants for housing assistance and supportive services by three types of 
projects: (1) Grants for special projects of national significance 
which, due to their innovative nature or their potential for 
replication, are likely to serve as effective models in addressing the 
needs of low-income persons living with HIV/AIDS and their families; 
(2) grants for Special Projects of National Significance--HIV Multiple-
Diagnoses Initiative (MDI) which, due to their innovative nature or 
their potential for replication, are likely to serve as effective 
models in addressing the needs of low-income persons living with HIV/
AIDS and their families who are also homeless and have chronic alcohol 
and/or other drug abuse problems and/or serious mental illness; and (3) 
grants for projects which are part of long-term comprehensive 
strategies for providing housing and related services for low-income 
persons living with HIV/AIDS and their families in areas that do not 
receive HOPWA formula allocations.
    The HIV Multiple-Diagnoses Initiative is a new feature of the 
national HOPWA competition and it responds to recommendations expressed 
during the 1995 White House Conference on HIV and AIDS, to 
recommendations to HUD by residents and providers of HIV/AIDS housing, 
and to recommendations and a survey of priority unmet needs of homeless 
providers and advocates cited in Priority: Home! The Federal Plan to 
Break the Cycle of Homelessness, issued by the Interagency Council on 
the Homeless in March, 1994. The HIV Multiple-Diagnoses Initiative is a 
collaborative effort between HUD and the Department of Health and Human 
Services to establish, evaluate and disseminate information on model 
programs to provide the integration of health care and other supportive 
services with housing assistance for eligible persons. The initiative 
targets assistance to homeless persons who often have complex needs and 
for whom service systems are often least developed.
    The announced HOPWA assistance is being offered in conjunction with 
related assistance being announced under the Special Projects of 
National Significance component of the Ryan White CARE Act under 
Department of Health and Human Services notices. HHS will fund an 
Evaluation Technical Assistance Center which will undertake national 
and multi-site evaluations of the HHS Special Projects of National 
Significance, including grants for Housing for Homeless Persons with 
HIV/AIDS and Substance Abuse and/or Mental Illness, and the MDI 
projects selected under this HUD initiative.
    The HOPWA assistance made available in this announcement is 
authorized by the AIDS Housing Opportunity Act (42 U.S.C. 12901), as 
amended by the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 (Pub. L. 
102-550, approved October 28, 1992) and was appropriated by the HUD 
appropriations act for 1996, the ``Making appropriations for fiscal 
year 1996 to make a further downpayment toward a balanced budget, and 
for other purposes'' (Pub. L. 104-134, approved April 26, 1996). The 
competition was announced in a Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) 
published in the Federal Register on February 28, 1996 (61 FR 7664). 
Applications were rated and selected for funding on the basis of

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selection criteria contained in that Notice.
    A total of $17,100,000 was awarded for 19 applications under three 
categories of assistance: $8,171,233 in 8 grants for Special Projects 
of National Significance--HIV Multiple-Diagnoses Initiative; $7,893,393 
in 9 grants for Special Projects of National Significance; and 
$1,035,374 in 2 grants for Projects which are part of Long-term 
Comprehensive Strategies for providing housing and related services in 
areas that do not receive HOPWA formula allocations. The Housing 
Opportunities for Persons with AIDS is listed in the Catalog of Federal 
Domestic Assistance 14.241.
    In accordance with section 102(a)(4)(C) of the Department of 
Housing and Urban Development Reform Act of 1989 (Pub. L. 101-235, 
approved December 15, 1989), the Department is publishing the grantees 
and amounts of the awards as follows:

                                        FY 1996 HOPWA Competitive Grants                                        
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                     Grant recipient                                  Project location             Award amount 
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                     Awards for Projects That are Part of Long Term Comprehensive Strategies                    
                                                                                                                
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Pima County Community Services Division..................  Tucson, Arizona......................        $538,902
Burlington Housing Authority.............................  Burlington, Vermont..................         496,472
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      Total 1996 Long Term Awards........................  2 Grants.............................      $1,035,374
                                                                                                                
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                               Awards for Special Projects of National Significance                             
                                                                                                                
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Alameda County Planning Department.......................  Oakland/Alameda Co. California.......       1,093,125
West Hollywood Community Housing Corporation.............  West Hollywood, California...........       1,076,200
City of Savannah.........................................  Savannah, Georgia....................         750,000
Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.........  State-wide Maryland..................         976,800
Santa Fe Community Housing Trust.........................  Sante Fe, New Mexico.................       1,030,000
The Actors' Fund of America..............................  New York City........................         750,000
Bailey House, Inc........................................  New York City and other sites to be           717,268
                                                            selected nation-wide.                               
Asociacion de Puertorriquenos en Marcha..................  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania...........         750,000
Bailey-Boushay House.....................................  Seattle, Washington..................         750,000
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      Total 1996 SPNS Awards.............................  9 Grants.............................       7,893,393
                                                                                                                
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             Awards for Special Projects of National Significance--HIV Multiple-Diagnoses Initiative            
                                                                                                                
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Bernal Heights Housing Corporation.......................  San Francisco, California............         845,541
Lutheran Social Services of Northern California..........  San Francisco, California............       1,200,000
Housing Authority of Santa Cruz..........................  Santa Cruz Co., California...........         750,000
Housing & Services Inc. (of South Florida)...............  Miami, Florida.......................       1,090,000
Baltimore Department of Housing and Community Development  Baltimore, Maryland..................       1,200,000
Catholic Community Services..............................  Jersey City, New Jersey..............         755,692
United Bronx Parents, Inc................................  New York City........................       1,130,000
Houston Regional HIV/AIDS Resource Group, Inc............  Houston, Texas.......................       1,200,000
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      Total 1996 SPNS Awards.............................  8 Grants.............................      8,171,233 
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Note: These projects are located in areas that do not qualify for HOPWA formula allocations.                    
Total for all categories (19 grants) $17,100,000.                                                               

    Dated: October 16, 1996.
Andrew Cuomo,
Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development.
[FR Doc. 96-27116 Filed 10-22-96; 8:45 am]
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