[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 14 (Monday, January 25, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 6913-6914]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-01463]


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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

[Docket No. FR-7041-N-03]


60-Day Notice of Proposed Information Collection: Evaluation of 
the HUD-DOJ Pay for Success Permanent Supportive Housing Demonstration; 
OMB Control No.: 2528-0319

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and 
Research, HUD.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is 
seeking approval from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for the 
information collection described below. In accordance with the 
Paperwork Reduction Act, HUD is requesting comments from all interested 
parties on the proposed collection of information. The purpose of this 
notice is to allow for 60 days of public comment.

DATES: Comments Due Date: March 26, 2021.

ADDRESSES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments regarding 
this proposal. Comments should refer to the proposal by name and/or OMB 
Control Number and should be sent to: Anna P. Guido, Reports Management 
Officer, QDAM, Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 7th 
Street SW, Room 4176, Washington, DC 20410-5000; telephone (202) 402-
5534 (this is not a toll-free number) or email at [email protected] 
for a copy of the proposed forms or other available information. 
Persons with hearing or speech impairments may access this number 
through TTY by calling the toll-free Federal Relay Service at (800) 
877-8339.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Anna P. Guido, Reports Management 
Officer, QDAM, Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 7th 
Street SW, Washington, DC 20410; email Anna P. Guido at 
[email protected] or telephone (202) 402-5535 (this is not a toll-
free number). Persons with hearing or speech impairments may access 
this number through TTY by calling the toll-free Federal Relay Service 
at (800) 877-8339. Copies of available documents submitted to OMB may 
be obtained from Ms. Guido.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This notice informs the public that HUD is 
seeking approval from OMB for the information collection described in 
Section A.

A. Overview of Information Collection

    Title of Information Collection: Evaluation of the HUD-DOJ Pay for 
Success Permanent Supportive Housing Demonstration.
    OMB Approval Number: 2528-0319.
    Type of Request: Revision or extension of currently approved 
collection.
    Form Number: N/A.
    Description of the need for the information and proposed use: The 
Departments of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and Justice (DOJ) 
entered into an interagency collaboration that combines DOJ's mission 
to promote safer communities by focusing on the reentry population with 
HUD's mission to end chronic homelessness. This collaboration resulted 
in the HUD-DOJ Pay for Success Permanent Supportive Housing 
Demonstration with $8.68M awarded to seven communities to develop 
supportive housing for persons cycling between the jail or prison 
systems and the homeless service systems using pay for success (PFS) as 
a funding mechanism. HUD announced seven grantees from across the 
country in June 2016. As of August 2020, six grantee communities 
remain. The PFS Demonstration grant supports activities throughout the 
PFS lifecycle, including feasibility analysis, transaction structuring, 
and outcome evaluation and success payments, with each grantee 
receiving funds for different stages in the PFS lifecycle. Through the 
national evaluation, which is funded through an interagency agreement 
between HUD and DOJ and managed by HUD's Office of Policy Development 
and Research, HUD-DOJ seek to assess whether PFS is a viable model for 
scaling supportive housing to improve outcomes for a re-entry 
population. The main goal of the evaluation is to learn how the PFS 
model is implemented in diverse settings with different structures, 
populations, and community contexts. The Urban Institute has been 
conducting a multi-disciplinary, multi-method approach to ``learn as we 
do'' and meet the key objectives of the formative evaluation. To 
understand project implementation, the evaluation includes data 
collection on both the time that project partners dedicate to each PFS 
project as well as PFS partner perceptions and interactions and 
community-level changes that may benefit the target population. This 
information collection request is for an ongoing time survey and an 
annual partnership web survey. The time survey will be used to assess 
staff time spent on development of each PFS project throughout the 
different lifecycle phases and the partnership survey will be used to 
document partner perceptions and interactions and community-level 
changes that may benefit the target population.

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    Respondents: PFS grantee staff and other project stakeholders.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: The annual web-based partnership 
survey will have up to 170 respondents across all 6 Demonstration 
sites. The quarterly web-based time survey will have up to 40 
respondents across all sites.
    Estimated Time per Response: The response time for the annual web-
based partnership survey is .25 hour. The response time for the 
quarterly web-based time survey is 1 hour.
    Frequency of Response: The annual web-based partnership survey will 
be administered once annually. The web-based time survey will be 
administered four times annually.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: The total annual burden for 
this information collection is 202.50 hrs.
    Estimated Total Annual Cost: The total annual cost for this 
information collection is $5,400.68.
    Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
    Legal Authority: The data collection is conducted under Title 12, 
United States Code, Section 1701z and Section 3507 of the Paperwork 
Reduction Act of 1995, 44, U.S.C., 35, as amended.

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                                                             Number of     Frequency of     Burden hour    Annual burden    Hourly cost
                 Information collection                     respondents      response      per response        hours       per response     Total cost
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HUD-DOJ PFS Key Project Partners (Annual web-based                   170               1            0.25            42.5      \1\ $26.67       $1,133.48
 partnership survey)....................................
HUD-DOJ PFS Key Project Partners (Quarterly time survey)              40               4             1.0             160           26.67        4,267.20
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    Total...............................................             210  ..............  ..............           202.5  ..............        5,400.68
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\1\ The typical key project partner role is either a management or support role. The estimate uses the average of the most recent (May 2019) Bureau of
  Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment Statistics median hourly wages for the labor categories Social and Community Services Manager (11-9151) and
  Community and Social Service Specialist, All Other (21-1099). To estimate cost burden to project partner respondents, we use an average of the
  occupations listed or $26.67.


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                                                                                                      Average
                                                                                   Median hourly     (median)
              Respondent                       Occupation            SOC code        wage rate      hourly wage
                                                                                                       rate
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HUD-DOJ PFS Key Project Partners......  (1) Social and Community     (1) 11-9151      (1) $32.28           26.67
                                         Services Manager.           (2) 21-1099       (2) 21.05
                                        (2) Community and Social
                                         Service Specialist, All
                                         Other.
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Source: Occupational Employment Statistics, accessed online January 11, 2021 at http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_stru.htm.

B. Solicitation of Public Comment

    This notice is soliciting comments from members of the public and 
affected parties concerning the collection of information described in 
Section A on the following:
    (1) Whether the proposed collection of information is necessary for 
the proper performance of the functions of the agency, including 
whether the information will have practical utility;
    (2) The accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the 
proposed collection of information;
    (3) Ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the 
information to be collected; and
    (4) Ways to minimize the burden of the collection of information on 
those who are to respond, including the use of appropriate automated 
collection techniques or other forms of information technology, e.g., 
permitting electronic submission of responses. HUD encourages 
interested parties to submit comment in response to these questions.

C. Authority

    Section 3507 of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C. 
Chapter 35.
    The General Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and 
Research, Todd Richardson, having reviewed and approved this document, 
is delegating the authority to electronically sign this document to 
submitter, Nacheshia Foxx, who is the Federal Register Liaison for HUD, 
for purposes of publication in the Federal Register.

Nacheshia Foxx,
Federal Register Liaison, Department of Housing and Urban Development.
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