In this Week's Edition
News
President Biden Announces New Actions
to Ease the Burden of Housing Costs
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HUD Updates:
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HUD Announces $10.3B In Grants
for Housing and Community
Development Activities Across The US
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HUD Announces Changes
To Family Self-Sufficiency (FSS) Program
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HUD Gives $1.4M For Foster Youth To Independence (FYI)
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Whitehouse Announces Commitments
From Internet Providers For Lower
Internet Rates For 1.6M Low-Income
New Jersey Residents
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DMHAS NOFA:
Mental Health Screening, Referral,
and Support Pilot Diversion Program
for Criminal Justice Reform (CJR)
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Social Security Easy Access
Flyer For Common Services
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DCM’s Online Leadership Assessment Tool
for Executives and Board Members
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Episode 7 of BoggsCast Now Available:
Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion
with Regina Rodriguez Sisneros
Resources & Virtual Forums
United Way Caregivers Coalition
Munch & Learn
“Too Much Stuff”
Hoarding Support and Information
May 24, 2022
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Rutgers Individualized Rehabilitation Plan (IRP) Development Workshop For CSS Staff
June 14, 2022
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Next SHA
Members Meeting
(New Date)
Next SHA
Developers Meeting
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LeadingAge New Jersey & Delaware
May 31 - June 2, 2022
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NJAAW
24th Annual Conference
June 13, 2022
New Brunswick.
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NJ Governor's Conference
on Housing & Economic Development
Sept 29-30, Atlantic City
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DCM Associates is helping Jewish Family Service of Somerset, Hunterdon and Warren Counties (JFS) recruit an Executive Director. JFS provides vital community support and assistance through outpatient mental health counseling, senior services home visitation services, special needs and family support programs, volunteer programs, Holocaust survivors' programs, employment readiness and career counseling, and more.
If you would like to express your interest in this position, please send a cover letter and resume to Allan Weisberg, Managing Director at allan@dcm-associates.com. If you would like to discuss the opportunity further or would like to recommend a candidate, please contact Dennis C. Miller, Founder & Chairman at dennis@dcm-associates.com or by phone at 201.956.1810.
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Funding for MFPHPP comes from savings from the Money Follows the Person program, a federal demonstration program to help individuals transition from institutions into the community. In New Jersey, this program is called I Choose Home NJ. For more information, visit www.ichoosehome.nj.gov or call 855-466-3005.
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SHA Welcomes New & Returning
Members In 2022
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President Biden Announces New Actions
to Ease the Burden of Housing Costs
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New Biden-Harris Administration Housing Supply Action Plan
To Help Close the Housing Supply Gap in Five Years
The White House released a comprehensive plan for combatting one of the major causes of inflation: the rising cost of rent and the severe shortage of homes affordable and available to America’s lowest-income and most marginalized households. The “Housing Supply Action Plan” includes a series of measures designed to increase the supply of housing over the next five years, including (1) using federal transportation funds to incentivize jurisdictions to reduce restrictive local zoning laws; (2) supporting manufactured housing, accessory dwelling units, and small-scale developments; and (3) streamlining federal financing and funding sources to help lower costs and speed development.
The Plan will help renters who are struggling with high rental costs, with a particular focus on building and preserving rental housing for low- and moderate-income families. The Plan’s policies to boost supply are an important element of bringing homeownership within reach for Americans who, today, cannot find an affordable home because there are too few homes for sale in their communities. And it will help reduce price pressures in the economy, as housing costs make up about one-third of of the market basket for inflation, as measured by the Consumer Price Index.
Under the Plan, the Administration will:
- Reward jurisdictions that have reformed zoning and land-use policies with higher scores in certain federal grant processes, for the first time at scale.
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Deploy new financing mechanisms to build and preserve more housing where financing gaps currently exist: manufactured housing, accessory dwelling units (ADUs), 2-4 unit properties, and smaller multifamily buildings.
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Expand and improve existing forms of federal financing, including for affordable multifamily development and preservation. This includes making Construction to Permanent loan more widely available by exploring the feasibility of Fannie Mae purchase of these loans; promoting the use of state, local, and Tribal government COVID-19 recovery funds to expand affordable housing supply; and announcing reforms to the Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC), which provides credits to private investors developing affordable rental housing, and the HOME Investment Partnerships Program (HOME).
- Ensure that more government-owned supply of homes and other housing goes to owners who will live in them – or non-profits who will rehab them – not large institutional investors.
- Work with the private sector to address supply chain challenges and improve building techniques to finish construction in 2022 on the most new homes in any year since 2006.
The announcement https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/05/16/president-biden-announces-new-actions-to-ease-the-burden-of-housing-costs/
Today’s rising housing costs are years in the making. Fewer new homes were built in the decade following the Great Recession than in any decade since the 1960s – constraining housing supply and failing to keep pace with demand and household formation. This mismatch between housing supply and housing demand grew during the pandemic. While estimates vary, Moody’s Analytics estimates that the shortfall in the housing supply is more than 1.5 million homes nationwide. This shortfall burdens family budgets, drives up inflation, limits economic growth, maintains residential segregation, and exacerbates climate change. Rising housing costs have burdened families of all incomes, with a particular impact on low- and moderate-income families, and people and communities of color.
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HUD Updates:
HUD Announces $10.3B In Grants for Housing and Community Development Activities Across The US
HUD Announces Changes
To Family Self-Sufficiency (FSS) Program
HUD Gives $1.4M For Foster Youth To Independence (FYI)
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Funding Will Enable Affordable Housing Development and Other Activities to Meet Needs of Families and Communities
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced $10.3 billion in Fiscal Year 2022 formula grants to communities across the United States for housing and community development activities ranging from affordable housing development to public housing modernization to economic opportunities for people with low and moderate incomes.
The grants announced today are provided through the following HUD programs, administered by the Department’s Office of Community Planning and Development (CPD) and Office of Public and Indian Housing (PIH):
- Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) – $3.3B
- HOME Investment Partnerships (HOME) – $1.5B
- Housing Trust Fund (HTF) – $738M
- Housing Opportunities for Persons with HIV/AIDS (HOPWA) – $405M
- Emergency Solutions Grants (ESG) – $290M
- CDBG Recovery Housing Program (RHP) – $25M
- CDBG CV-3 Reallocations – $3 million
FY22 Capital Fund Program Awards – $3.2 billion to 2,813 Public Housing Agencies (PHAs) for the development, financing, and modernization of public housing developments and for management improvements. PHAs receiving CFP formula awards are located in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
New Jersey is set to receive over $99M as part of the Capital Funds Program Awards.
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HUD Announces Changes
To Family Self-Sufficiency (FSS) Program
HUD announced it will publish a rule to implement changes to the Family Self-Sufficiency (FSS) program, which benefits HUD-assisted families with the combination of stable affordable housing; individualized coaching and service coordination to help families develop and pursue financial goals; and the ability to set aside a portion of the rent in the form of an escrowed savings account that grows as families’ earnings increase. The changes include permanently expanding the FSS program’s definition of an eligible family to include tenants of privately-owned multifamily properties subsidized with Project-Based Rental Assistance. The changes also include expanding eligibility for FSS enrollment to include any adult member of the household—rather than only the head of household. This change is designed to be more inclusive of households where the head of household is unable to work or increase work activity due to issues such as health conditions, disabilities or family caretaking responsibilities. The rule also expands the definition of “good cause” for a FSS client contract extension to include participants who are in active pursuit of a long-term goal that will help them get ahead economically, such as a college degree, as opposed to only reasons outside of the family’s control.
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HUD Gives $1.4M For Foster Youth To Independence (FYI)
HUD announced $1.4 million in Foster Youth to Independence (FYI) funding for youth transitioning out of foster care who are experiencing or at risk of experiencing homelessness. HUD’s FYI initiative makes housing choice voucher (HCV) assistance available to public housing agencies in partnership with public child welfare agencies to assist youth aged 18-24 (who are aging out or have aged out of foster care) with rental assistance. To be eligible for FYI funding, public housing authorities must: administer an HCV program; enter into a partnership agreement with a public child welfare agency; accept young people referred by their partnering public child welfare agency; and determine that the referred youth are eligible for HCV assistance. Over the past year, the FYI initiative has awarded $12.7 million in 45 states to assist youth in accessing housing stability.
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Whitehouse Announces Commitments From Internet Providers For Lower Internet Rates For 1.6M
Low-Income New Jersey Residents
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The infrastructure legislation included $65 billion to provide subsidies of $30 per month to offset the cost of high-speed internet. At the White House event, Biden announced that 20 providers, including Comcast Corp. and Verizon Communications in New Jersey, would provide such connections for no more than $30 per month, meaning it wouldn’t cost anything for low-income households to go online.
Comcast’s Internet Essentials Plus offering would be free to qualified households under this program, said David Watson, president and chief executive. Verizon likewise is offering free internet connections through its Fios Forward program. Optimum has its own free program as well. Those eligible for the program have income at no more than 200% of the federal poverty level, which is $27,750 for a family of four, or already participate in a provider’s low-income internet program.
To sign up or for more information, go to getInternet.gov or call 1-877-384-2575. (NJ.com, May 10, 2022)
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DMHAS NOFA:
Mental Health Screening, Referral, and Support Pilot Diversion Program for Criminal Justice Reform (CJR)
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Name of Program:
Mental Health Screening, Referral, and Support Pilot Diversion Program for Criminal Justice Reform (CJR) Pretrial Released Defendants
Purpose:
This Request for Proposals (RFP) is issued by the New Jersey Department of Human Services (DHS), Division of Mental Health and Addiction Services (DMHAS) to develop a county based mental health pilot program for justice involved defendants who are subject to the Criminal Justice Reform (CJR) Act and identified with a serious mental illness.
Amount of funding available:
Total annualized funding is up to $1.25M subject to State appropriations. DMHAS anticipates making at least one award.
Procedure to apply:
A proposal must be submitted that comports with the RFP requirements and instructions. Applications due No Later than 4:00pm on June 24, 2022.
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Social Security Easy Access Flyer For Common Services
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DCM’s Online Leadership Assessment Tool
for Executives and Board Members
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Are you a nonprofit Board Member or CEO struggling to find the right leadership assessment tool? DCM Associates has created a leadership assessment tool specifically for nonprofits to help identify their organization's strengths and weaknesses. We also provide accurate recommendations in areas of needed improvement.
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Episode 7 of BoggsCast Now Available:
Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion with Regina Rodriguez Sisneros
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The Boggs Center is excited to share the latest episode of BoggsCast, a podcast where faculty and staff explore best practice, showcase success stories, and help listeners envision possibilities for innovation through interviews with state and national experts.
In this episode, Regina Rodriguez Sisneros, Director of Equity Initiatives and Systems Innovations for the National Association of State Directors of Developmental Disabilities Services (NASDDS), discusses equity, diversity, and inclusion.
BoggsCast episodes and full transcripts are available on the Podbean App, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, and Spotify apps and websites. Listen wherever and whenever works for you!
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Resources & Virtual Forums
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United Way Caregivers Coalition Munch & Learn
“Too Much Stuff” - Hoarding Support and Information
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The United Way Caregivers Coalition of The United Way of Northern New Jersey invites you to join the next virtual Munch & Learn program on Tuesday, May 24th at 11:00am. The presentation will be on “Too Much Stuff.” People who have a tendency to hoard can accumulate so much “stuff” it overwhelms their lives, and family members and friends often do more harm than good in their attempts to help.
The presenter, Laverne S. Williams, CSW, will discuss common beliefs around hoarding disorder, best practices to support someone with the disorder, and the financial and emotional costs to persons with the tendency to hoard and to their families and the community. She will provide evidence-based tools to assess the risk for hoarding disorder, as well as a case study practice for gaining entry into a home with too much stuff. She will also stress the need for a paradigm switch of language about hoarding disorder.
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Rutgers Individualized Rehabilitation Plan (IRP) Development Workshop For CSS Staff
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The Rutgers School of Health Professions (SHP) is offering an Individualized Rehabilitation Plan (IRP) Development Workshop to CSS staff who develop and complete IRPs (e.g., licensed staff and RNs). Participants will meet with SHP CSS staff (Emilie, Shelley, and Earle) and other CSS staff who complete IRPs to ask for and receive feedback during the workshop.
This 2.5 hour workshop is designed for CSS staff who develop and submit plans to the IME. Workshop participants must bring a de-identified IRP in development or have previously been submitted and received feedback but are not currently on hold to discuss and review. This will be entirely practice-based, and participants must be willing to bring a de-identified plan and provide feedback to others. Participants will work in small groups led by a SHP CSS staff. Each participant will present their plan, ask questions, and receive feedback and suggestions from those in their group. CSS programs should limit registration to 1 to 2 staff.
The CSS IRP Development Workshop will be remote and held live through Zoom on Tuesday June 14th, 9:30 am until 12:00 pm. Space is limited, so licensed staff and RN’s should register as soon as possible. Registration information must be for the staff attending the training.
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Want all the member benefits with SHA? Visit our website or contact Joseph Christensen to apply or manage your membership.
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Members can post jobs to find applicants within the wider supportive housing community. Click on the button to visit our job page.
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Diane Riley, Executive Director
Joseph Christensen, Membership & Communication Manager
Kate Kelly, MSW – Integrated Community Project Manager
Kate Leahy, Housing Navigator Project Manager
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Advocate ● Educate ● Support
The Supportive Housing Association of New Jersey unites its diverse coalition of members engaging development, resources, and information to sustain supportive housing systems within New Jersey. Since 1998, our statewide mission seeks to enhance lives and accessibility to enable independent living within our communities.
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Supportive Housing Association of New Jersey
185 Valley Street, South Orange, NJ 07079
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