[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 125 (Friday, June 28, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 54029-54030]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-14238]


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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

[Docket No. FR-7090-N-06]


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 Policy Development and Research, HUD.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: 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 comment 
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: August 27, 2024.

ADDRESSES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments regarding 
this proposal. Written comments and recommendations for the proposed 
information collection can be submitted within 60 days of publication 
of this notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. Find this 
particular information collection by selecting, ``Currently under 60-
day Review--Open for Public Comments'' or by using the search function. 
Interested persons are also invited to submit comments regarding this 
proposal by name and/or OMB Control Number and can be sent to: Anna 
Guido, Reports Management Officer, REE, Department of Housing and Urban 
Development, 451 7th Street SW, Room 8210, Washington, DC 20410-5000 or 
email at [email protected].

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Anna Guido, Reports Management 
Officer, Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 7th Street 
SW, Washington, DC 20410; email; [email protected]; telephone (202) 
402-5535 (this is not a toll-free number). HUD welcomes and is prepared 
to receive calls from individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing, as 
well as individuals with speech or communication disabilities. To learn 
more about how to make an accessible telephone call, please visit 
https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/telecommunications-relay-service-trs.
    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: Extension without change of currently approved 
collection.
    Form Number: N/A.
    Description of the need for the information and proposed use: The 
U.S. 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

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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.
    Respondents: PFS grantee staff and other project stakeholders.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: The annual web-based partnership 
survey will have up to 65 respondents across all 4 remaining 
Demonstration sites. The quarterly web-based time survey will have up 
to 17 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 84.25 hrs.
    Estimated Total Annual Cost: The total annual cost for this 
information collection is $2,461.79.
    The typical key project partner role is either a management or 
support role. The estimate uses the average of the most recent (May 
2022) 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 averaged the median hourly wage for the two labor 
categories; this produces an average of the occupations listed or 
$29.22.

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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) $35.69          $29.22
                                   Services Manager.              (2) 21-1099         (2) $22.74
                                  (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.

    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., Chapter 35.

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                                                                                                      Burden hour     Annual    Hourly cost
                    Information collection                      Number of    Frequency    Responses       per         burden        per      Annual cost
                                                               respondents  of response   per annum     response      hours       response
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HUD-DOJ PFS Key Project Partners (Annual web-based                      65            1           65         0.25        16.25       $29.22      $474.83
 partnership survey).........................................
HUD-DOJ PFS Key Project Partners (Quarterly time survey).....           17            4           68          1.0           68        29.22     1,986.96
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    Total....................................................           82  ...........  ...........  ...........        84.25  ...........     2,461.79
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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 through 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 comments in response to 
these questions.

C. Authority

    Section 3507 of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C. 
3507.

Todd M. Richardson,
General Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and Research.
[FR Doc. 2024-14238 Filed 6-27-24; 8:45 am]
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