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Recommendation to adopt resolution authorizing City Manager, or designee, to execute all required documents necessary to accept funding not to exceed $1,527,699 from the County of Los Angeles to continue to administer the Homeless Incentive Program (HIP)
FY 2023 - 2024 (July 1, 2023 - June 30, 2024). (Citywide)
DISCUSSION
On February 7, 2017, the City Council voted unanimously to support Los Angeles County Measure H, the Los Angeles County Plan to Prevent and Combat Homelessness, on the March 7, 2017, ballot. Measure H subsequently passed by two-thirds or more of the vote, which established a new quarter-cent sales tax in Los Angeles County for ten years in order to fund homeless services and prevention programs. Revenues generated by Measure H will be expended by the County Supervisors prior to June 30th of each year. The annual expenditure plan includes projects to prevent homelessness, subsidize housing, provide case management services, increase income, create a coordinated system, preserve, and promote affordable housing for the homeless, and provide services to address the causes and effects of homelessness.
Measure H revenues will be awarded to public agencies to address the aforementioned homeless issues. The Housing Authority of the City of Long Beach (HACLB) is a recipient of Measure H funding and has begun taking the necessary steps, in partnership with the Los Angeles County Development Authority (the administrator), to implement and administer the Homeless Incentive Program (HIP) in the City of Long Beach. The components of the program are as follows:
•Leasing Bonus: Incentivizes landlords to rent housing units to homeless individualsand families by offering bonuses upon lease-up of eligible applicants and/orparticipants.
•Payment of Rental Application Fees: Provides payment of all applicable applicationfees, up to $50.00* per adult per application.
*This amount is subject to change based on California’s maximum application screening fe...
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