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Recommendation to authorize the Executive Director, or designee, to set aside 75 HUD sponsored Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing (VASH) Project-Based Vouchers (PBV) for homeless veterans to be housed at Anchor Place Development located within Century Villages at Cabrillo; and authorize the Executive Director, or designee, to negotiate and execute an agreement to enter into a Housing Assistance Payment contract for VASH PBV assistance in accordance with Housing and Urban Development (HUD) guidelines for qualified applicants. (Citywide)
DISCUSSION
The Project-Based Voucher (PBV) Program in Long Beach has been designed to meet special housing needs within the City as confirmed in the City’s Consolidated Plan. The most recent PBV development was the Palace Hotel, which provides 13 rental units for youth aging out of the foster care system. This has been a very successful outreach to an underserved population. The PBV was initiated in a completely renovated historical structure on Anaheim Boulevard in central Long Beach. Project-based vouchers are also being set aside for two new construction developments, the Cabrillo Gateway Development, which will provide 80 units of affordable housing for homeless families on the Westside of our City, and the Long Beach 21st Senior Apartments, located in central Long Beach, which will provide 41 units of affordable senior housing, with 15 of those units utilized as permanent supportive housing units through the Project-Based Voucher (PBV) Program.
Last year, an RFP was solicited for a development to address the special Housing needs of Homeless Veterans. The development had to be able to work with the Long Beach Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Long Beach (VAMC), as they provided case management for the Veterans. Anchor Place at Century Villages at Cabrillo submitted a viable proposal with site control, preliminary plans and local support. The project was accepted by the HACLB for submittal to HUD for special V...
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