[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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