1 Stevenson, Garrett
Subject: FW: 6/1/22 ED Tech Meeting: Agenda #3: FOLLOW-UP FROM MAY 17, 2022 FY 2023
BUDGET WORKSHOP HOUSING DEPARTMENT
Attachments: S. Berndt PRA response 5.24.22.pdf
From: Sonja Berndt < >
Sent: Wednesday, June 1, 2022 3:32 PM
To: Stevenson, Garrett <[email protected]>; Hampton, Tyron <[email protected]>; Madison, Steve <[email protected]>; Rivas, Jessica <[email protected]>; Wilson, Andy <[email protected]>
Cc: Huang, William <[email protected]>
Subject: 6/1/22 ED Tech Meeting: Agenda #3: FOLLOW-UP FROM MAY 17, 2022 FY 2023 BUDGET WORKSHOP HOUSING
DEPARTMENT
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Dear Mr Stevenson and Members of the ED Tech Committee:
Please see attached the Housing Department's response to my request for information concerning the FY2023 Housing Department Budget. I just received it and thought it would be helpful in your discussions and deliberations regarding the FY2023 Housing Department's budget. Please ensure that it is made part of the public file for this meeting.
Thank you.
Sonja Berndt
Department of Housing
649 N. Fair Oaks Avenue, Suite 202, Pasadena, CA 91103
6/1/22 (revised)
RESPONSE TO INFORMATION REQUEST FROM SONJA BERNDT DATED 5/23/2022 CONCERNING THE HOUSING DEPARTMENT'S FY 2023 OPERATING BUDGET
1. Housing Department's recommended FY2023 total operating budget is $39.3 million. Of that total amount, what is the current total funding anticipated to be allocated/used for interim housing for our unsheltered residents? Please identify the amounts by program and source of funding.
Currently the department has $275,489 allocated to interim housing projects, including the emergency winter shelter for the 22-23 winter season. This figure does not reflect any unexpended ESG-CV (CARES) funds that are allocated to interim housing in FY 22 and will roll over into FY 23. The City's FY 23 allocation of Measure H funding, which includes funds for interim housing, is also not included in this figure. The budget will be amended to incorporate these additional funds as they become available.
Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG) - $25,000
Measure H- $250,489
2. The total General Fund appropriations sought for the Housing Department is $1.6 million. Of that amount, what is the total amount anticipated to be allocated/used for interim housing for our unsheltered residents?
None of the $1.6 million of General Fund appropriations in the Department's FY 23 budget is allocated for interim housing.
3. For the projects Salvation Army Hope Center, Concord Senior Apartments and Heritage Square South, please provide the following information for each:
a. Anticipated (approximate) date for residents to move into the project. i. The Salvation Army Hope Center: Anticipated opening is June 2024. ii. Concord Senior Apartments : Concord Senior Apartments is not a new construction project; it is a rehabilitation/preservation project for very low income seniors. It is not operated as permanent supportive housing. The project is currently occupied.
iii. Heritage Square South: Anticipated opening is late 2023/early2024 . 1 b. The number of units set aside for unhoused persons located in Pasadena. i. The Salvation Army Hope Center-65 units (all but one which is reserved for a resident manager) will be set aside for unhoused individuals. Vacancies will be filled by referrals from the Coordinated Entry System and preference will be given to Pasadena residents.
ii. Concord Senior Apartments: Zero units are set aside for unhoused individuals. iii. Heritage Square South: 69 units (all but one which is reserved for a resident manager) will be set aside for unhoused individuals. Vacancies will be filled by referrals from the Coordinated Entry System and preference will be given to Pasadena residents.
c. Will unhoused persons located in jurisdictions outside of Pasadena be eligible to occupy the units?
i. TSA Hope Center: Yes, although Pasadena residents will receive priority and are likely to fill nearly all, if not all, of the units.
ii. Concord Senior Apartments: n/a
iii. Heritage Square South Yes, although Pasadena residents will receive priority and are likely to fill nearly all, if not all, of the units.
4. For the "244 inclusionary units permitted, under construction or completed," (slide 2 of Dept. budget presentation):
a. What is the anticipated (approximate) date for residents to move into each of these units? The units are anticipated to be completed over the next two years from the beginning of FY 2023 through the end of FY 2024.
b. How many of these units will be available solely to unhoused residents located in Pasadena? None. These are not interim or permanent supportive housing projects.
They are affordable inclusionary units in market rate housing projects. c. Will unhoused persons located in jurisdictions outside of Pasadena be eligible to occupy the units? No, for the reason stated in 4.b.
5. This slide mentions that 37 households were permanently housed through "City-funded program" as of March 31, 2022.
a. Were those households sheltered or unsheltered immediately prior to when they became permanently housed?
A combination of previously sheltered and unsheltered households are included in this figure.
b. Please identify the specific source of "City funding" used to permanently house these persons.
These households were permanently housed through programs funded by HUD Continuum of Care, ESG, ESG-CV, and Section 8; state California Emergency Solutions and Housing (CESH) and Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention (HHAP); and LA County Measure H.
2 6. "270 formerly homeless households provided supportive housing." Are any of these households included in the 512 total unhoused persons per the 2022 Homeless Count? In other words, do we still have approximately 512 unhoused persons despite these 270 households that were provided supportive housing?
The 270 households in permanent supportive housing and the 512 persons in the homeless count are mutually exclusive.
7. Please explain the reference to "[e]xpanded HOPE Team Services Liaison program." Specifically what expenses of the HOPE Team are funded by the Housing Department and what are the specific duties of personnel funded by the Housing Department? The Housing Department administers General Fund and ARPA dollars for the HOPE Team Services Liaison program. The City contracts with Union Station Homeless Services to provide two full-time street outreach workers (plus a portion of their supervisor) who are partnered with the HOPE Team. Originally the program only supported one outreach worker, but it was expanded to two, initially with ARPA funds, and is expected to be sustained at that level with additional General Fund dollars pending approval of the FY 23 operating budget. The outreach workers facilitate connections to interim and permanent housing as well as housing navigation services. This program came about in response to a request made by the HOPE Team. Housing agreed to administer the funds because we oversee other street outreach contracts.
8. "Other Housing Funds:" Housing Department staff mentioned that this line item includes the $3 million the Department is receiving in one-time federal American Rescue Plan Act ("ARPA") funding. Of this amount, how much is anticipated to be used for interim housing? These funds are allocated to affordable, permanent housing, not interim housing.
9. "Federal ESG funds are significantly reduced due to the ESG CARES funding ramping down." For FY2022 thus far, what is the total amount of Federal ESG funds the Department has expended to provide interim housing for our unsheltered persons, included services for that housing?
As of May 17, the Department had expended a total of $374,716.60 ESG funding on interim housing in FY 22, including $349,784.65 of ESG-CV (CARES) funds and $24,931.95 of annual ESG funds.
10. "Federal Coe funds have increased due to the award of additional grant funding for rapid rehousing." Are any of those funds anticipated to be used for interim housing for our unsheltered residents and, if yes, how much?
Interim housing is not an eligible expense under federal Coe grants, so no Coe funds are spent on interim housing.
3 11. "Additional one-time state funding will likely be utilized to sustain existing programming created by earlier rounds of one-time state funds." As of the date you respond to this letter, what is the total amount of this state funding guaranteed to be received by Pasadena? Of this amount, how much is anticipated to be allocated for interim housing for our unsheltered residents?
The "additional one-time state funding" being referenced is the third round of HHAP funds (HHAP-3). The City recently received its initial disbursement of HHAP-3 funds in the amount of $162,241.36 which will be included in an upcoming amendment to the FY 22 operating budget.
The remainder disbursement of $648,965.45 is expected to be received in FY 23 at which point the budget will be amended to recognize and appropriate those funds. The use of the remainder disbursement of HHAP-3 funds has not yet been determined and will be discussed by the Coe Board on June 9. Department staff will send you the zoom information for that meeting.
12. "Complete homeless PCC student interim housing." This project was appropriated $400,000 in FV2022 ARPA funding.
a. Please identify what other funding is being used for this housing project. City lnclusionary funds - $1.GM, and Pasadena Community Foundation grant - $200,000. b. What type of interim housing is being provided (type of housing model). Six (6)-unit apartment property at 2322 E. Foothill Blvd. serving Transition Age Youth c. For how many residents? Six (6) if assuming one person per unit. d. Also, what will be the source of funding for ongoing operations for this interim housing project? Rent subsidy from Pasadena Community College.
13. Slide 10: This slide states that a FV2023 priority related to homelessness is "[s]ustain existing programming created by county Measure H, federal CARES and prior rounds of one-time state funding."
a. Please identify the "existing programming created by county Measure H." i. This slide is referencing rapid rehousing, coordinated entry (housing navigation and location), and housing retention programming that was created with Measure H funds. The City's allocations of B3 and E7 Measure H funds have been reduced significantly, so we are looking to other funding sources to sustain the existing programming.
b. Is any Measure H funding anticipated to be used to provide interim housing for our unsheltered residents and, if so, how much?
i. At least $250,489 of Measure H funds are anticipated to be spent on interim housing in FY 23. This figure does not include the City's FY 23 allocation for interim housing which is yet to be determined by the LA County CEO-Homeless Initiative office.
c. As for sustaining existing programming created by federal CARES, how will this be possible if, as stated in Slide 7, the "Federal ESG funds are significantly reduced due to the ESG CARES funding ramping down?"
i. The City is looking to state funding sources (CESH, HHAP) to sustain certain programs created by federal ESG-CV (CARES) funding.
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