[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 75 (Wednesday, April 18, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 19962-19967]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-9544]


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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

[Docket No. FR-4560-FA-18]


Housing Opportunities for Persons With AIDS Program Announcement 
of Funding Awards--FY 2000

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

ACTION: Announcement 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 under the Fiscal Year 2000 
Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS (HOPWA) program. The notice 
announces the selection of 22 project applications and two Technical 
Assistance applications under the FY 2000 HOPWA national competition 
which were announced under the Super Notice of Funding Availability 
(SuperNOFA) for Housing Community Development and Empowerment Programs. 
The notice contains the names of award winners and the amounts of the 
awards.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: David Vos, Director, Office of HIV/
AIDS Housing, Department of Housing and Urban Development, Room 7212, 
451 Seventh Street, SW, Washington, DC 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 HUD Home Page on the World Wide Web. In addition to this 
competitive selection, 101 jurisdictions received formula based 
allocations during FY 2000 for $207.2 million in HOPWA funds. 
Descriptions of the formula programs is found at www.hud.gov/cpd/hopwahom.html.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION. The purpose of the HOPWA program competition 
was to award project grants for housing assistance and supportive 
services under two categories of assistance: (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; and (2) 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 purpose of the HOPWA Technical Assistance competition was to 
award grants that provide support for program operations. HUD 
established national goals for these funds: (1) Ensuring the sound 
management of HOPWA programs; and (2) targeting resources to 
underserved population.
    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 2000. The competition was announced in a 
SuperNOFA published in the Federal Register on February 24, 2000 (65 FR 
9865). Each application was reviewed and rated on the basis of 
selection criteria contained in that Notice. A total of $23.6 million 
was awarded to the 22 highest rated project applications in their 
ranked order and two technical assistance applications for $1.74 
million.
    Public Benefit. The award of HOPWA funds to these 22 projects will 
significantly contribute to HUD's mission in supporting projects that 
provide safe, decent and affordable housing for persons living with 
HIV/AIDS and their families who are at risk of homelessness. The 
projects proposed to use HOPWA funds to support the provision of 
housing assistance to an estimated 2,700 low-income people with HIV/
AIDS and their families. In addition, an estimated 5,100 persons with 
HIV/AIDS are expected to benefit from some form of supportive service 
or housing information referral service that will help enable the 
client to maintain housing and avoid homelessness. The recipients of 
this assistance are expected to be very-low income or low-income 
households. These 22 applicants also documented that the Federal funds 
awarded in this competition, $23.6 million, will leverage an additional 
$49 million in other funds and non-cash resources including the 
contribution of volunteer time in support of these projects, valued at 
$10/hour. The leveraged resources will expand the HOPWA assistance 
being awarded by 208 percent.
    A total of $23.6 million was awarded to these 22 organizations to 
serve clients in the eighteen listed States:

FY 2000 HOPWA Competitive Awards by State

Alaska

    The Alaska Housing Finance Corporation will receive $572,600 to 
continue to provide housing services for persons with HIV/AIDS in 
cooperation with its sponsor, the Alaskan AIDS Assistance Association. 
The grant builds

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on prior HOPWA grants in 1994 and 1997 that were used to initiate the 
State's AIDS housing programs in this non-formula area. Housing and 
support services will be made available to 100 households in Anchorage 
and the southcentral, southwestern and western regions of the State. A 
comprehensive range of services will also be provided by Four As such 
as case management, employment services, treatment and transportation, 
especially in addressing needs to access health care in rural areas. 
Through a network of state agencies and community based organizations 
who have committed over $2,000,000 in resources, persons with HIV/AIDS 
will be able to continue to reside in their home communities by support 
services to meet needs of each client. For information contact: Kris 
Duncan, PO Box 101020, Anchorage, AK 99510; (907) 330-8276 or by email: 
[email protected].

California

    The Salvation Army, Southern California Division, will receive a 
grant of $927,888 to support operating costs and supportive services at 
a 45-unit transitional and permanent housing program for families 
affected by HIV/AIDS. The Alegria housing project is being developed in 
the Silverlake district of Los Angeles and will serve clients in Los 
Angeles County. Alegria will support a range of housing options for 
clients with graduated services, including transitional support with 
intensive services, family services in independent living arrangements 
and care in a licensed residential facility. The project will adjust to 
changes in service needs and help maintain families as they transition 
through needs while remaining in their home residence. Over $9 million 
in other funds and in-kind services have been leveraged to develop this 
facility and operate the planned programs. For information contact: Lt. 
Colonel Alfred R.Van Cleef, Divisional Commander, 900 W. James M. Wood 
Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90015, (213) 553-3253; or Jerry Hill by email: 
[email protected].
    The County of Sacramento, Department of Human Assistance will 
receive a grant of $1,300,142 for the Breaking Barriers Housing 
Project, a collaborative of human service agencies from both the 
Homeless Continuum of Care and the HIV Services Continuum in 
Sacramento. The primary partners in this collaborative are the AIDS 
Housing Alliance, and Volunteers of America. In addition, the Center 
for AIDS Research, Education and Services (CARES), the Sacramento 
Housing and Redevelopment Agency, and Breaking Barriers (a program of 
River City Metropolitan Community Church) will act as in-kind partners. 
This project will complete the continuum of care in this region by 
addressing an underserved population of persons who are homeless and 
avoid traditional shelter programs. The city will establish a 12-bed, 
30-day emergency shelter to address this local gap in the continuum of 
housing and supportive services. The City is committing 120 tenant-
based Section 8 assistance slots to provide permanent housing for 
clients who successfully complete transitional programs. For 
information contact: Cheryl Davis, Director, 2433 Marconi Avenue, 
Sacramento, CA 95821, (916) 874-4333 or by email: [email protected].
    The San Francisco Redevelopment Agency will receive $1,370,000 
under the Special Projects of National Significance (SPNS) initiative 
to improve the current housing conditions for underserved homeless 
persons who are living with HIV/AIDS in the City and County of San 
Francisco. Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of San Francisco will 
serve as the project sponsor in operating the Second Start Program that 
will assist homeless HIV/AIDS persons with support in getting a job or 
returning back to work through vocational training and independent 
living. The project will address re-entry issues such as 
discrimination, lack of recent work experience, and client uncertainty 
about the effects of income gains on disability and medical benefits. 
In addition, many clients may also need support to address 
homelessness, mental health and substance use issues. The program will 
combine the use of partial rent subsidies for 125 households with 
access to 10 units of services enriched SRO housing, as needed. The 
City and Catholic Charities are collaborating with the Public Health 
Institute and the Positive Resource Center and tested the program in an 
initial pilot effort. For information contact: James Morales, Executive 
Director, 770 Golden Gate Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94102: (415) 749-
2479 or Olson Lee, Housing Manager, by email: [email protected].

Colorado

    The Colorado Division of Housing will receive $1,370,000 to provide 
rental assistance and short-term rent payments and related services in 
the areas of the State outside of the Denver metropolitan area. Under 
the Colorado Housing Assistance Made Possible (CHAMP) program, the 
State will partner with the Colorado AIDS Project, The Boulder County 
AIDS Project, Western Colorado AIDS Project, South Colorado AIDS 
Project, and the North Colorado AIDS Project to operate the program in 
each region. The nonprofits will offer over 50 units of tenant-based 
rental assistance and assist 487 households with short-term rent 
payments to prevent homelessness. In addition, AIDS Housing of 
Washington will assist in developing a state-wide needs assessment and 
plan. The State agency will provide overall administrative oversight of 
the sponsors and will evaluate outcomes. The agency will also provide 
housing inspections directly or through affiliated local housing 
authorities. This is the first time that HOPWA funds are being awarded 
to establish AIDS housing programs in these areas which do not receive 
HOPWA formula grants. Champ builds on a long history of statewide 
collaboration and coordination of AIDS-related services and will 
incorporate $7,948,231 in leverage funds. An estimated 537 individuals 
living with HIV/AIDS and their families will receive some form of 
housing assistance. For information contact: Tom Hart, Division 
Director, 1313 Sherman Street, Room 518, Denver, CO 80203; (303) 866-
4123 or Patrick Coyle by email: [email protected].

Georgia

    The City of Savannah, Bureau of Public Development will receive a 
$1,197,572 grant to expand on its collaboration with Union Mission, 
Inc. and six other project sponsors with the Savannah-Chatham AIDS 
Continuum of Care. Under the AIDS Neighborhood Association of Savannah 
project, the City will acquire and renovate ten units of housing, 
directly across the street from Phoenix Place, a one-stop service and 
medical center for persons living with HIV/AIDS. The program will serve 
an underserved neighborhood with a high concentration of African-
Americans. The project will expand the existing AIDS Continuum of Care 
to serve 50 percent more persons, streamline the intake process for 
housing services and expand substance abuse treatment. Housing 
placements will be coordinated by the Project House Call program and 
120 persons are expected to receive housing assistance through the 
project. For information contact: Israel Small, Assistant City Manager, 
6 East Bay Street, PO Box 1027, Savannah, GA; (912) 651-6520 or by 
email: [email protected].

Hawaii

    In Honolulu, Gregory House Programs will receive funding to 
continue the supportive housing programs operating under their 1997 
Special Projects of

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National Significance award and allow for a continuum of services for 
persons with multiple diagnoses. This Hawaii nonprofit will receive 
$1,030,000 for housing programs for persons with HIV/AIDS who are 
living in the Honolulu metropolitan area under two components: 40 units 
of tenant-based rental assistance and operational costs for a 11-bed 
transitional housing facility. The transitional support will involve 
assessment and treatment services, case management, psychiatric 
services and physical health care as well as life skills, money 
management and other programs that promote independent living skills. 
For information contact: Michael Burnett, Executive Director, 770 
Kapiolani Blvd., Suite 503, Honolulu, HI 96813 (808) 592-9022 or by 
email: [email protected].

Illinois

    The AIDS Foundation of Chicago will receive $1,362,846 under the 
Special Projects of National Significance (SPNS) initiative to direct 
assistance to underserved racial and ethnic minority communities that 
have been impacted by AIDS and poverty. The Foundation will help build 
a Renaissance Care Network that assists persons living with HIV/AIDS, 
with a special focus on serving an underserved population of African-
Americans who reside in the Greater Roseland area of Chicago, Illinois. 
The project will also foster better collaboration with the community 
project sponsors: the Christian Community Health Center, the Clinic in 
Altgeld, Community Supportive Living Services, South Side Help Center 
and Universal Family Connection. The HOPWA funds will be used to lease 
21 scattered site apartments and an array of supportive services 
relating to HIV counseling, testing, outreach, medical care, parenting, 
child care, substance abuse and mental health. During the grant period 
there will be 150 HIV/AIDS persons receiving some form of housing 
assistance. For information contact: Mark Ishaug, Executive Director, 
411 South Wells Street, Suite 300, Chicago, IL 60607; (312) 922-2322 or 
Shelly Ebbert by email: [email protected].

Kentucky

    In Kentucky, the Commonwealth's Kentucky Housing Corporation will 
receive $1,320,000 to support the Statewide HIV/AIDS Integrated 
Substance Abuse and Housing Initiative. The project will serve more 
than 490 persons by establishing a substance abuse treatment network 
that covers all 120 of Kentucky's counties, both urban and rural. 
Activities will be undertaken in collaboration with four non-profit 
project sponsors: AIDS Volunteers in Lexington; Heartland CARES, Inc. 
in Paducah; Transitions, Inc. in Covington; and Volunteers of America 
of Kentucky, Inc in Louisville. The project is an expansion and renewal 
of a FY 1997 HOPWA competitive grant. Short-term housing assistance 
will reach 231 homeless or low-income persons with chemical 
dependencies in connection with substance abuse treatment services and 
serve as a gateway to other continuum of care assistance. For 
information contact: F. Lynn Luallen, CEO, or Kimberly Burris, 1231 
Louisville Rd., Frankfort, KY 40601; (502) 564-7630 x414 or email: 
[email protected].

Maine

    The AIDS Project (TAP) of Portland will receive $1,333,286 to 
continue its successful competitive SPNS program in Southern Maine and 
expand services to underserved persons in rural areas in the remaining 
areas of the State where no HOPWA funds have previously been available. 
TAP operates in conjunction with three sponsors in the Portland area, 
Peabody House, AIDS Lodging House and Shalom House and collaborates 
with other providers. Assistance creates a range of housing options, 
including 63 units of tenant-based rental assistance, 39 units of 
emergency shelter, 42 units of short-term rent, mortgage and utility 
assistance, 192 security deposits to secure housing, 6,000 hours of 
volunteer support for clients and a range of supportive services. The 
Housing Assistance and Volunteer Enlistment Network (HAVEN) is the 
first and only collaborative effort in Maine dedicated to 
comprehensively addressing the complex housing and supportive service 
needs of people living with HIV/AIDS. For information contact: George 
Friou, MPH, Executive Director, The AIDS Project, PO Box 5304 Portland, 
Maine 04101 (207) 774-6877 or by email: [email protected].

Maryland

    The Health Care for Homeless, Inc. will receive $1,301,703 in order 
for them to create Project Connect to assist an underserved population 
of medically fragile HIV+ homeless persons in Baltimore. HCH is 
collaborating with Project PLASE (People Lacking Ample Shelter and 
Employment) as the sponsoring agency and build on findings from the 
City's multiple diagnoses initiative efforts in reducing barriers for 
clients with difficult challenges. The Project will connect housing 
support for 180 clients with a new level of intensive case management 
and comprehensive services to address the needs for the homeless or 
those at risk of homelessness and medically fragile. Clients will 
connect to efforts through the City's new Maryland Community Resource 
Center, a drop in center for persons with HIV/AIDS and site for service 
programs. The project uses a 12-bed transitional facility near the 
center that is operated by Project PLASE with a commitment for 
placement in a variety of permanent supportive housing options. 
Services will include personal care, chore services as well as a range 
of treatment programs to help clients maintain compliance with medical 
regime and enhance behavioral skills. For information contact: Jeff 
Singer, President and CEO, 111 Park Ave., Baltimore, MD 21201; (410) 
837-5533 ext. 301 or Laura Gillis ext. 313 by email: 
[email protected].

Massachusetts

    In suburban areas around Boston, Cambridge Cares About AIDS (CCAA) 
will receive funds for a collaboration with the Quincy Interfaith 
Shelter Coalition (QISC) and North Shore Community Action Program. The 
effort will receive $1,326,917 to support the Bay State Supportive 
Housing Alliance program in filling a gap in housing services by 
providing 24 units of transitional housing up to 24 months to 
individuals and families living with HIV/AIDS across Eastern 
Massachusetts; an estimated 82 persons will be assisted. Each provider 
will lease 8 units of transitional housing for clients. BSSHA will be 
the only program in the state that provides scattered site rental 
subsidies and support services while utilizing the harm reduction model 
for persons with HIV/AIDS and substance use histories. Services will 
include health promotion, including preventive case management; 
substance use adherence, and nutrition counseling; housing advocacy, 
including search and placement in permanent housing; financial 
advocacy, mental health counseling and aftercare stabilization. By 
leveraging other programs for permanent housing and existing supportive 
services within eastern Massachusetts, BSSHA will be able to ensure 
that support will remain constant after the participants complete the 
program and graduate into independent housing. Contact: Dan Curley, 
Executive Director, CCAA, 678 Massachusetts Avenue, Suite 402, 
Cambridge, MA 02139, Telephone (617) 661-3040 or by email: 
[email protected]

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Mississippi

    The South Mississippi AIDS Task Force will receive $935,500 to 
construct and operate Client House, in order to expand the amount of 
available emergency shelter and transitional housing for low income and 
homeless people living with AIDS and their families. The planned 
facility will house 12 individuals and 2 families in Biloxi and will 
serve the southern six counties of the State. In using this central 
location to consolidate service programs at one site, access should 
increase for clients residing in rural areas. The project is being 
coordinated with the Mississippi Department of Health and 25 
organizations that provide related supportive services for clients, 
including addressing transportation needs in rural areas, treatment, 
independent living skills training, personal money management education 
and case management services. The preliminary construction design plan 
involves the use of eight bedrooms with a shared kitchen, living room, 
meeting rooms, library and office space on the first floor for delivery 
of service programs. In addition, the project will access the State's 
short-term payment program to assist clients in remaining in their 
current homes. For information contact: Yancy Pogue, Executive 
Director, PO Box 8009, Biloxi, MS 39535-8009; (228) 385-1214 or email: 
[email protected].

New Jersey

    Catholic Community Services (CCS) will receive a grant of 
$1,191,285 for operating costs for the St. Martin DePorres Residence, 
an eight unit supportive housing facility that will house multiply 
diagnosed people in the terminal stages of AIDS in Jersey City. St. 
Martin DePorres Residence will provide housing and 24-hour supportive 
services and palliative care to an estimated 32 multiple diagnosed 
homeless persons living with HIV/AIDS over the proposed 36-month 
project period. Through this project persons who would normally be 
homeless and not have access to end of life care will receive less 
costly non-institutional care. To support this project, Catholic 
Community Services has leveraged over $1.2 million in private and 
federal funding and will contribute leasehold interest in the building 
to house the St. Martin DePorres Project. For information contact: Rev. 
Msgr. Dennis Mahon, PhD, Executive Director, Hudson County Division, 
494 Broad Street, Newark, NJ 07102, (201) 798-9923 or Elizabeth 
Patterson on email: [email protected].

New York

    The Church Avenue Merchants Block Association, Inc. (CAMBA) will 
receive $1,080,000 to renew its HIV multiple diagnoses initiative 
program Housing Start. The project provides scattered site apartments 
in Brooklyn for forty (40) low income homeless persons living with HIV, 
who are homeless and have mental illness or chemical additions or both. 
Housing support is combined with innovative treatments and 
comprehensive culturally sensitive services. The funding allows for two 
innovations: Treatment education and intensive independent living 
skills training (Project Rise Reaching Independence and Self 
Empowerment). The project will link HIV, substance abuse, mental health 
services, treatment, education, health care intensive independent 
living skills training and other supportive services with housing 
assistance to maximize independent living and self determination. 
Housing Start will also provide acupuncture as a therapy for alcohol 
and drug addition, harm reduction counseling, housekeeping, case 
management, entitlement advocacy, home care as needed, educational/
vocational training and recreational activities. Most services will be 
on site and will be in-kind contributions through CAMBA's other HIV/
AIDS programs. For information contact: Joanne M. Oplustil, 1720 Church 
Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11226; (718) 287-2600 or by email: 
[email protected].
    In Brooklyn, Housing Works, Inc., will establish a transitional 
housing program to address the specialized needs of women who are 
living with HIV/AIDS and coming out of the criminal justice system. The 
program will provide 12 units of transitional housing and a range of 
supportive services to reinforce behavioral changes as clients begin to 
reintegrate into the community. The $703,177 grant will link a minimum 
of 75 women living with HIV/AIDS pending release or recently released 
from incarceration into the continuum of AIDS services, including 
housing and medical services. Housing Works will provide transitional 
housing to a minimum of 20 of these women with ``bridge'' support such 
as security deposits and moving expenses into permanent housing, and a 
full range of medical, clinical, psycho-social, case management 
services to a minimum of 18 clients. Contact: Keith Cylar, Executive 
Director, 594 Broadway, Suite 700, New York, NY 10012; (212) 966-0466 
x275 or email: [email protected].
    The Fortune Society will receive $1,274,875 to develop the Coming 
Home Program designed to meet the needs of HIV positive homeless 
persons who are released from jails and prisons. This population is an 
underserved primarily African American and Latino population which is 
characterized by extensive substance abuse and face significant 
barriers to needed services. The program will assist 125 clients with 
support in permanent housing after a transition through a continuum of 
housing modalities--emergency, transitional, supported permanent and 
independent permanent housing. The program will construct a facility 
for 12 beds for emergency and transitional housing in West Harlem that 
will continue as a permanent resource for the target population. A 
revolving loan fund will be established for clients who have been 
approved for entitlements but who are struggling with delays in receipt 
of checks. Housing services will be coupled with a broad range of 
supportive services needed to stabilize clients and provide them with 
the skills and resources needed to independently maintain housing. The 
program is a collaborative sponsored by the Fortune Society, drawing 
upon a network of referral agencies, emergency and transitional housing 
providers, government agencies, carefully selected realtors and a broad 
array of social service organizations used to provide supportive 
services. Contact: JoAnne Page, Executive Director, 53 West 23rd 
Street, New York, NY 10010; (212) 891-7554 or Brian Robinson by email: 
[email protected].
    The Center for Children and Families will receive $1,278,906 to 
continue New York City's first system-wide housing assistance program 
for homeless HIV and multiple diagnosed minority youth from 18-24 years 
old. Initiated under their 1997 Special Projects for National 
Significance award, the Center's objective is to outreach to HIV and 
multiple-diagnosed homeless youth in the Times Square area. An 
estimated 270 youth will be assisted with overnight shelter and other 
support. This program involves the operation of a number of specialized 
facilities, such as SafeSpace, a 24 hour drop in center, and using two 
mobile home units which canvass homeless youth on the streets. Services 
include client-driven conflict management resolution, day treatment 
programs, and overnight housing. The program operates at four sites, 
with day treatment programs as SafeSpace, and shelter provided at 
SafeHaven, a homeless youth facility for persons aged 16-24 years, Ali 
Forney House, a

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transitional housing program for homeless gay and transgender males, 
and SafeHome, a transitional living residence for homeless youth with 
multiple diagnoses. For information contact: Beverly Brooks, Executive 
Director, 295 Lafayette Street, Suite 920, New York, NY 10012; (212) 
226-3536 or by email: [email protected]

Pennsylvania

    To help address underserved needs in rural areas, the Family Health 
Council of Central PA, Inc., in Camp Hill will receive a grant for 
$367,040 to establish a program that links health to housing for 
clients in a 14 county region of south and central Pennsylvania. The 
program will rely on eight area sponsors: The AIDS Community Alliance; 
the AIDS Community Resource Program; the AIDS Intervention Project; 
Betty Finney House/Wellspring Corporation; HOPE House; Keystone Health 
Center; Ordinary People, Extraordinary Needs; and York Health 
Corporation. These providers will deliver rental assistance support to 
an estimated 150 clients, especially women with HIV/AIDS in rural 
areas, and operate under the State's standards of care for a planned 
one year of operations. For more information: Cindy Groff, President & 
CEO, Suite 200, 3461 Market Street, Camp Hill, PA 17011-4441; (717) 
761-7380 or Susan Goldy by email: [email protected].

Texas

    The Bexar County, Department of Housing and Human Services will 
receive $1,320,000 to target assistance to an underserved population of 
women with HIV/AIDS with children. Working with its sponsor, the San 
Antonio Alternative Housing Corporation and a number of partners for 
services, the County will assist 28 families who are homeless or at 
risk of becoming homeless. Funds will be used to acquire and 
rehabilitate a building into an eight unit transitional housing 
facility to be coordinated with treatment and family services. This 
initiative will help stabilize women in housing, help address health 
concerns, and when able to move on, connect to permanent housing 
solutions, such as in housing operated by the House of Hope. For 
information contact: Jose E. Castillo, Executive Director, 233 North 
Pecos, Suite 590, San Antonio, Texas 78207; (210) 335-3666 or by email: 
[email protected].

Vermont

    The Burlington Housing Authority will receive $471,392 to continue 
a program offering rental assistance and support services for residents 
of an 11-unit supportive housing project that was developed through a 
HOPWA 1996 competitive grant in a non-formula area. Vermont Cares 
serves as the project sponsor for the range of supportive services made 
available to residents. Funds will be used in combination with other 
public and private funding. The new component will increase housing 
options by providing rental assistance and support services for ten 
households of individuals and family living with HIV in Chittenden 
County. For information contact: Paul Dettman, Executive Director, 230 
St. Paul Street, Burlington, VT 05401; (802) 64-0538 or by email 
[email protected].

Wyoming

    The Wyoming Department of Health will receive $588,191 to expand on 
its previous statewide HOPWA Grant in a non-formula area. The State's 
1997 program was converted from housing in a transitional facility to a 
short-term rent payments program in response to client requests. Funds 
will allow the State and its sponsors, the Wyoming AIDS Project and 
Casper Housing Authority to continue to meet supportive service needs 
and address short-term housing needs of 175 low-income people living 
with HIV/AIDS throughout Wyoming. Housing information referrals and 
over 15,000 hours of volunteer support will be used to help persons 
maintain independent living. For information contact: Karl Musgrave, 
D.V.M., M.P.H., Administrator, Hathaway Building, 4th Floor, Cheyenne, 
WY 82002; (307) 777-7958 or by email: [email protected]

Nation-Wide HOPWA Technical Assistance

The AIDS Housing Corporation

    The AIDS Housing Corporation (AHC) of Boston, MA will provide 
regional HOPWA technical assistance in Massachusetts and the other New 
England States. The award of the National HOPWA Technical Assistance 
funds of $670,000 will allow AHC to expand on activities originally 
funded through its prior HOPWA awards for three Special Projects of 
National Significance in 1995, 1997 and 1998. AHC will further its 
efforts by addressing HUD's goals established in the FY 2000 SuperNOFA 
by increasing the sound management of HOPWA programs and assisting 
organizations targeting underserved populations.
    AHC will provide assistance to communities and organizations in New 
England through a five pronged approach of: (1) Needs assessments; (2) 
program evaluation; (3) project development, operation, and management; 
(4) research, training and publications; and (5) community-wide systems 
development. Through these efforts, AHC will work to strengthen the 
collaborative relationship between service providers and increase their 
organizational capacity to manage and operate complex housing and 
supportive service programs. As a part of their TA efforts, AHC will 
collaborate with Connecticut AIDS Residence Coalition (CARC) to 
complete an extensive needs assessment and planning project for the 
state to gain an objective understanding of the housing and service 
needs of persons living with HIV and AIDS. AHC will also conduct two 
emergent needs assessments on changing needs in the epidemic, such as 
harm reduction housing, assistance for ex-offenders, cultural 
competency in service delivery and correlative issues of poverty and 
substance use and mental health challenges. Some of AHC publications 
are tri-lingual, in helping English, Spanish and Haitian Creole 
speaking persons undertake housing searches. In the Spring of 2002, AHC 
will host the Second New England AIDS Housing Conference based on their 
successful regional training event, Under One Roof, held last summer. 
AHC also will continue development of peer evaluations under state-wide 
Standards of Care in AIDS housing and provide hands-on consultations, 
including collaborations on housing development projects and service 
programs. AHC will establish a Program Manger Institute to help build 
capacity in nonprofit organizations and establish a consumer forum to 
promote citizen and resident participation in community planning.
    AIDS Housing Corporation is a partner in the national HOPWA TA 
project, Partners in AIDS Housing National Technical Assistance 
(PAHNTA) along with AIDS Housing of Washington, Inc. of Seattle, WA and 
Bailey House of New York, both of whom are HOPWA TA providers. AHC also 
works with other organizations, such as the Technical Assistance 
Collaborative, on similar efforts under other HUD programs. For 
information contact: Joe Carleo, Executive Director, AIDS Housing 
Corporation, 29 Stanhope Street, Boston, MA 02116, (617) 927-0088; 
(617) 927-0852 fax, (617) 927-9576 TTY; email: 
[email protected]

AIDS Housing of Washington, Inc.

    AIDS Housing of Washington, Inc., (AHW) in Seattle, WA, will 
continue and expand technical assistance services with the award of 
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National HOPWA Technical Assistance funds. The project addresses the 
two goals established in HUD's SuperNOFA in supporting the Sound 
Management of HOPWA Programs and Projects and in Targeting Resources to 
Underserved Populations. AHW is collaborating with other providers, 
such as Bailey House, Inc., Abt Associates, the Corporation for 
Supportive Housing, the AIDS Housing Corporation and others to offer 
support and guidance to nonprofit organizations and State and local 
governments in planning, operating and evaluating housing assistance 
for persons who are living with HIV/AIDS and their families. Activities 
will be carried out on a nation-wide basis. AHW is now organizing the 
Fourth National Conference on HIV/AIDS Housing, Opening Doors and 
Keeping Them Open, that is scheduled for June 14-17, 2001 in Denver. 
The conference will offer a variety of workshops and training 
institutes to help develop and manage housing programs, address needs 
of special populations, refine collaborations, expand project 
financing, make use of monitoring and quality standards, and enhance 
strategies to sustain operations for long-term project viability.
    AHW will also provide direct assistance to a community that 
receives HOPWA funds to help it establish and enhance the area's 
comprehensive strategies for HIV/AIDS housing. Activities will focus on 
in-depth hands-on technical assistance and more general approaches in 
training, such as development of consumer survey instruments, 
publications on standards in operating programs, training on fiscal 
accountability and assistance in data collection efforts and evaluation 
and dissemination of performance results. In connection with other 
HOPWA grants for Special Projects of National Significance, the AHW 
team will help support new outreach efforts to better address the unmet 
needs of underserved populations, such as racial and ethnic minorities, 
women and persons living in rural areas. AHW will promote the 
participation of a broad diversity of organizations, professionals and 
consumers in undertaking its technical assistance activities. AHW will 
sponsor the second AIDS Housing Leadership Institute in 2001 and other 
regional and national meetings with providers and grantees. Training 
efforts will help build greater capacity for leadership in nonprofits 
and agencies that offer housing and related support to persons with 
HIV/AIDS. Graduates of the institute are expected to serve a peer 
leaders in their region in assisting other organizations enhance their 
operations. In addition, national meetings of HOPWA formula grantees 
will be held under this grant in 2002 and 2003 as well as post-award 
training on startup for new grantees selected in 2001-2003.
    AHW will also assist in providing information on housing resources 
at other AIDS-related events, such as the United States Conference on 
AIDS that is hosted annually by the National Minority AIDS Project. In 
addition, a resource library and database on AIDS housing providers is 
maintained. In responding to requests, AHW will negotiate an 
appropriate scope of work to be undertaken and coordinate the technical 
assistance with area HUD offices. For information contact: Donald 
Chamberlain, Director of Technical Assistance, AIDS Housing of 
Washington, 2025 First Avenue, Suite 420, Seattle, WA 98121 (206) 448-
5242, (206) 441-9485 fax, email: aidshousing.orgwww">donald@aidshousing.orgwww. 
aidshousing.org.

Total for all 22 program grants........................      $23,600,000
Total for all Technical Assistance grants..............        1,738,238
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    Total..............................................       25,338,238
 


    Dated: April 11, 2001.
Donna M. Abbenante,
Acting General Deputy Assistant Secretary, Office of Community Planning 
and Development.
[FR Doc. 01-9544 Filed 4-17-01; 8:45 am]
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