[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 226 (Monday, November 24, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 62616-62617]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-30612]


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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

[Docket No. FR-4210-N-03]


Housing Opportunities for Persons With AIDS Program; Announcement 
of Funding Awards--Fiscal Year 1997

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 1997 Housing Opportunities for Persons 
with AIDS (NOPWA) program. The notice contains the names of award 
winners and the amounts of the awards.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
David Vos, Acting Director, Office of HIV/AIDS Housing, Department of 
Housing and Urban Development, Room 7154, 451 Seventh Street, SW, 
Washington, DC 20410, telephone (202) 708-1934. the TTY 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 1-800-998-999 (voice) or 1-800-483-
2209 (TTY); by email 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, 
including at least one grant for National HOPWA Technical Assistance; 
(2) grants for projects under the 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 to services for low-income persons living with HIV/
AIDS and their families in areas that do not receive HOPWA formula 
allocations, including additional funds for the evaluation of MDI grant 
selected under the 1996 competition.
    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 
Department's appropriation, The ``Department of Veterans Affairs and

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Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriation 
Act, 1997'' (Pub. L. 102-204, approved September 26, 1996). The 
competition was announced in a Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) 
published in the Federal Register on May 7, 1997 (62 FR 25082). 
Applications were rated and selected for funding on the basis of 
selection criteria contained in that Notice.
    The Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance number for this program 
is 14.241.
    A total of $19,600,000 was awarded for 27 applications. In 
accordance with section 102(a)(4)(C) of the Department of Housing and 
Urban Development Reform Act of 1989 (103 Stat. 1987, 42 U.S.C. 3545), 
the Department is publishing the grantees and amounts of the awards in 
Appendix A.

    Dated: November 17, 1997.
Jacquie Lawing,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development.

Appendix A--FY 1997 HOPWA Competitive Grants

Chart 1. Awards for Projects That Are Part of Long Term comprehensive 
Strategies (Non-Formula Areas)
Alaska Housing Finance Corporation, Anchorage, Alaska, $572,800
New Mexico Mortgage Finance Authority, Albuquerque and Gallup, New 
Mexico, $1,100,000
Rhode Island Housing and Mortgage Finance Corporation, Providence, 
Cumberland and Cranston, Rhode Island, $1,097,030
Wyoming Department of Health, Casper, Wyoming, $288,640
Pima County Community services, Tucson, Arizona, $639,196
Chart 2. Awards for Special Projects of National Significane
The AIDS Project, Portland, Maine, $1,064,194
AIDS Housing Corporation, Boston, Massachusetts for the New England 
region, $749,689
San Diego County, Department of Housing and Community Development, San 
Diego, San Marcos and Vista, California, $1,053,800
North Carolina Department of Environment, Health and Natural Resources, 
Charlotte, Raleigh, Greenville, Wilmington, and eastern rural NC, 
$785,714
Kentucky Housing Corporation, Louisville, Lexington, Dayton and 
Covington, Kentucky, $901,323
Ho'omana'olana, Honolulu, Hawaii, $1,028,797
Hudson Planning Group, Inc., New York City, $334,750
Chart 3. Award for National HOPWA Technical Assistance--SPNS
AIDS Housing of Washington, Seattle, Washington for nation-wide 
activities, $1,030,000
Chart 4. Awards for the HIV Multiple-Diagnoses Initiative
City of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, Connecticut, $1,270,000
Church Avenue Merchants Block Association (CAMBA), Brooklyn, New York 
City, $1,199,901
AIDS Task Force of Alabama, Inc., Birmingham, Alabama, $1,270,000
The Salvation Army, Harbor Light Multi-Service Center, Minneapolis, 
Minnesota, $1,200,000
Catholic Community Services, Hudson County Division, Jersey City, New 
Jersey, $1,236,922
Local Health Council of East Central Florida, Inc., Orlando, Florida, 
$1,205,903
Center for Children & Families, Manhattan, New York City, $1,221,450
Chart 5. Additional Pat III Funds for Evaluation of 1996 HIV Multiple-
Diagnoses Initiative Projects
Bernal Heights Housing Corporation, San Francisco, California, $50,000
Housing Authority of Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz Co., California, $50,000
Housing & Services Inc. (of South Florida), Miami, Florida, $50,000
Baltimore Department of Housing and Community Development, Baltimore, 
Maryland, $50,000
Catholic Community Services, Jersey City, New Jersey, $49,936
United Bronx Parents, Inc., New York City, $50,000
Houston Regional HIV/AIDS Resource Group, Inc., Houston, Texas, $50,000
Total for all 27 grants: $19,600,000

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