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Florida Housing Coalition
Hurricane Member
Update Webinar
September 17, 2021
Sponsored by Fannie Mae
AGENDA • Training Announcements • Updates • Disaster Resilience and Recovery Topics at the Florida Housing Coalition Conference
Volunteer Florida:
Recognizing Florida
Preparedness Month
Christy Rojas
Emergency Management
Director
Christy@volunteerflorida.org
Training Announcement
Housing Counseling:
Emerging Issues
Resulting from
COVID
September 22, 2021
at 2:00 pm
Register at:
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register/4585997445061612557
Training Announcement
Using the LHAP
Between Triennial
Updates
September 23, 2021
at 2:00 pm
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register/7564674500264965389
Disaster Resilience
and Recovery
Topics at the
Florida Housing
Coalition
Conference
Blaise Denton Elissa Plancher
Denton@flhousing.org plancher@flhousing.org
COVID and Eviction Forum
Who Spoke
• Blaise Denton, Research Manager Florida Housing Coalition
• Anne Ray, Florida Housing Data Clearinghouse Manager, Shimberg Center for
Housing Studies
• Caroline Glenn, Business Reporter, Orlando Sentinel
• Elizabeth Rich, Community Resource Coordinator, Osceola County
• Audrey Aradanas, Vice President of Programs, Miami Homes for All
Anne Ray, Florida Housing Data Clearinghouse Manager, Shimberg Center for Housing Studies • The Shimberg Center has New Eviction Data • Evictions dropped off, but still thousands of people were evicted under the pandemic • With the end of the eviction moratorium, there is a need to get out emergency rental assistance quickly
Caroline Glenn, Business Reporter, Orlando Sentinel • Caroline Glenn talked about her and others reporting on ERA programs and eviction in Florida at the Orlando Sentinel • Local programs were far more effective than statewide programs • Still, hundreds of families were evicted in Orlando, some even after receiving assistance • Critical need for effective programs and requirements to ensure people who receive assistance are not evicted
Elizabeth Rich, Community Resource Coordinator, Osceola County • Dr. Liz Rich talked about the innerworkings of running a CRF Strategy 2 Program • Moving forward what do ERAP 1 and ERAP 2 look like
Audrey Aradanas, Vice President of
Programs, Miami Homes for All
• Community group involvement leads to better
engagement and saves the government time
and money
• Miami-Dade Affordable Housing Framework
• Axis Helps Miami https://www.axishelps.org/
• Policies for the future:
• Eviction Diversion Programs
• Displacement Prevention
• Establishing a Tenant Advocate Office and the
Right to Counsel
• Broad EngagementTake-Aways and Solutions
Moving Forward
• No organization is designed for this scale of
funding, but local programs have functioned better
than state level programs
• State and local governments should have pre-
approved plans and policies for quick response
• Don’t reinvent the wheel, go with existing
structures and fund programs that are working
• Make applications as simple as possible and don’t
go above minimum requirements
• Partner with community groups and nonprofitsOverview of
Pandemic
Housing Funds
Blaise Denton
Research Manager
Florida Housing CoalitionThe Coronavirus Aid Relief and Economic Security Act
(CARES)
• Moratoriums on eviction and foreclosure for lack of payment
• Applied to all rentals
• Applied to federally backed mortgages
• Hundreds of millions of dollars on housing in Florida
• $56 Million for the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program
through Community Action Agencies
• $2.47 billion in direct funding to local governments, some of which
went to housing
• $1.25 billion to 55 larger and moderate sized counties with DEM
administering
• $120 million from Treasury to the Florida Housing Finance
Organization (FHFC) for FHFC rental properties
• $120 million from FHFC for local State Housing Initiatives
Partnership Program Offices
• $10 million to FHFC for working with special needs/elderly
populations$480,392,522 Various HUD Emergency Funding
Sources (State and Local Levels Combined)
04/02/2020 05/22/2020 09/11/2020 04/02/2020 06/09/2020 04/02/2020
CDBG-CV1 CDBG-CV2 CDBG-CV3 ESG-CV1 ESG-CV2 HOPWA-CV
Part A
$91,633,927 $63,170,131 $130,770,727 $45,381,064 $143,461,821 $5,974,852But….
• Tracking on many programs makes it difficult to see where and how money has
been spent
• Money could be spent on a variety of projects (CDBG, FDEM, Local government
allocations)
• The years long timeline for spending money has meant that some programs did
not disburse funds during the early pandemic when need was most acute
• The scale and timetable of some projects meant money was returned or used for
other priorities
• Thus: the CRF Strategy 2 Funds administered through
local SHIP offices were the largest share of housing
funds distributed in Florida during 2020CRF Strategy 2 Program • Originally assigned $120 million • Spent a total of $133 million dollars, $13 from other sources • Over 32,000 households served • Local governments could choose to help renters, owners, or both
Local Government Level Dashboard https://public.tableau.com/views/CRFStrategyTwoLocalGovernmentLevel/Dashboard1?:l anguage=en-US&:display_count=n&:origin=viz_share_link
Example Local Government: Leon County
Census Tract Dashboard https://public.tableau.com/shared/8R9N7KD9K?:display_count=n&:origin=vi z_share_link
Example Census Tracts: Leon County
State Emergency Solutions
Grant CV1
Total Percent
Rapid Rehousing $ 11,120,913.02 56%
Emergency Shelter $ 2,991,464.08 15%
Homelessness Prevention $ 2,276,394.57 11%
Outreach $ 2,154,822.24 11%
Admin $ 941,310.19 5%
Homeless Management Information System (HMIS) $ 516,905.90 3%
$ 20,001,810.00 100%Moving Forward: Emergency Solutions Grant CV2 • $103 million at the local level between 14 jurisdictions • $40 million at the state level • Awarded to the CoCs on April 12th, 2021
Moving Forward: ERAP 1 through the Consolidated
Appropriations Act, 2021
Emergency Rental Assistance Program 1:
• Total allocation $1,441,188,973.40
• $569,951,364.9 to 32 Local Governments
• $871,237,608.50 to the State administered through OUR Florida,
launched in May, 2-3 months after most local programs and one
of the last states in the country to launch their program
• $15.5 million as of July 31st
• Funds can be spent through September 30th, 2022, but…Potential Reallocation 15 U.S. Code section 9058a. ERAP 2: 15 U.S. Code section 9058c REALLOCATION OF UNUSED FUNDS.—Beginning on September 30, 2021, the Secretary shall recapture excess funds, as determined by the Secretary, not obligated by a grantee for the purposes described under subsection (c) and the Secretary shall reallocate and repay such amounts to eligible grantees who, at the time of such reallocation, have obligated at least 65 percent of the amount originally allocated and paid to such grantee under subsection (b)(1), only for the allowable uses described under subsection (c). The amount of any such reallocation shall be determined based on demonstrated need within a grantee’s jurisdiction, as determined by the Secretary.
Moving Forward: ERAP 2 through the American
Rescue Plan
Emergency Rental Assistance Program 2:
• Funding is being disbursed through OUR Florida, unlikely that
funds have gone out because ERA 1 is still being spent
• $1,140,345,383.60 total funding
• At least $689,369,543.60 to the state
• 32 local governments received $450,975,840 plus
$51,113,726.50 for “High Needs Areas”
• Funds can be spent through September 30th, 2025
• Has similar recapture provision March 2022Local Governments Have Again Taken the Lead • Local governments have spent $159.1 million as of July 31st, compared to the state’s $15.4 million • The state’s program did not launch until the end of May. By that time, the 32 local governments had already spent $65.1 million • Both Miami-Dade County ($31.2 million) and Palm Beach County ($20.0) have spent more money than the OUR Florida program ($15.4 million)
Moving Forward: Homeownership Assistance Fund through the American Rescue Plan • $676,102,379, administered by DEO • Has yet to launch, DEO plans for the funds to be available starting in late fall 2021
Elissa Plancher
plancher@flhousing.org
Keep Safe Miami’s
innovative resilience
assessment tool for
multifamily properties that
highlights components of a
property or portfolio that
point to a risk to climate
change-based impacts and
tabulates costs to make the
necessary mitigation
actions.
https://www.enterprisecommunity.org/solutions-
and-innovation/emergency-management/keep-
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THE FLORIDA HOUSING COALITIONModerator
Mike Rogers
Southern Advocacy Group
Presenters
Rusty Smith
Auburn University Rural Studios
Dr. Jennifer Languell
Trifecta Construction
Auburn University Rural Studio Front Porch Initiative and the Florida Green Building Coalition
share information to ensure- or even certify- that your single-family homes or multifamily
properties are resilient, energy efficient, and sustainable.
✓ Florida’s premier green building standard
✓ Addressing low cost and no cost ways to improve the overall durability and performance of homes
✓ How green features can be incorporated into housing designs that are affordable and designed for
infill lots or rural landscapes
THE FLORIDA HOUSING COALITIONREACH for Resilience:
Tampa Bay Regional Planning Council Best Practices
Moderator ✓ Tampa Bay RPC’s resilience planning
Cheryl Howell, Director of Affordable Housing initiative Two of the new REACH
Hillsborough County Board of County resources
Commissioners
Presenters
✓ Tools to identify vulnerabilities and
self-assess planning frameworks for
CJ Reynolds, Tampa Bay Regional Planning Council policies that support affordable
Elissa Plancher, Florida Housing Coalition housing hazard resilience and
mitigation
Andrea Galinksi, University of Florida Shimberg
Center for Housing Studies ✓ The REACH projects provide a
Mary Helen Duke, Pasco County Planning and blueprint for best practices and
Development Department defining updates to plans, gathering
crucial data to support housing
mitigation programs, and align with
the new Florida resilience
requirements.
✓ Valuable in planning for community
resilience from natural disasters could
result in safer housing and
communities throughout Florida.
THE FLORIDA HOUSING COALITION✓ Legal services are on-site and providing immediate and long-term support to vulnerable
survivors in the aftermath of a disaster, in addition to connecting people with disaster
recovery networks to obtain FEMA benefits and other insurance benefits.
✓ Low-income families are disproportionately impacted by loss of property and income.
✓ Services provided by Legal Aid include help with navigating complex recovery issues,
assistance with FEMA appeals, insurance disputes, damage assessment conflicts, illegal
evictions, landlord tenant disputes, foreclosure issues, housing discrimination, fraud
protections, reproduction of lost documents such as wills or property title, and heir title
issues.
THE FLORIDA HOUSING COALITIONThe Fannie Mae Disaster Recovery Network is active across the country working to
stabilize housing access disrupted by wildfires, the COVID 19 Pandemic, and hurricanes.
✓ Foreclosure and forbearance programs
✓ Fannie Mae’s tools for identifying the problems and for helping these survivors build back their
good credit scores to where they were before disaster struck.
✓ Climate justice and racial equity planning, helping to address the disproportionate impact to
Black and minority households.
✓ Recognize and deploy the tools and programs that can help fully restore disaster survivors.
THE FLORIDA HOUSING COALITIONLori Switzer-Mills
Franklin County SHIP
Administrator
Joseph Oglesby
Rebuild Florida
Michael Chaney
FHC
Douglas Roberts
FDEM
✓ Funding that has financed housing disaster recovery
State Partnerships after Hurricanes Irma, Michael, and Sally.
✓ How the Hurricane Housing Recovery Program,
& Funding for CDBG-DR, SHIP, and other sources have paid for
Disaster Strategies repair, replacement, and new construction of
housing.
✓ Role of the Florida Division of Emergency
THE FLORIDA HOUSING
Management’s COALITION
Housing Recovery Task Force in
Hurricane Michael recovery.Climate Justice,
Resilience, and
Recovery Forum
✓ Florida is in the crosshairs of climate change
Angela R. Gladwell as sea levels rise and tropical storm intensity
FEMA
increases, battering an aging housing stock,
disinvested neighborhoods, and vulnerable
residents.
✓ There is a growing widespread awareness of
equity, inclusion, and diversity gaps issues
Kevin Bush which further impacts disaster resilience and
HUD recovery.
✓ There are a plethora of programs and
initiatives are poised to bring forth real changes
to fight climate change impacts.
✓ FEMA’s BRIC program, HUD Mitigation
emphasize connecting emergency managers to
the flow of funding for mitigation programs.
✓ The panelists discuss and explore challenges as
housing mitigation moves into the spotlight of
Chauncia Willis protecting Florida’s most vulnerable residents
Institute for Diversity and and our residential infrastructure.
Gladys Cook Inclusion in Emergency
FHC Management
THE FLORIDA HOUSING COALITIONUpcoming Training
September 24, 2021
at 1:30 pm
Annual Report Season for HHRP
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Available Daily: 1 (800) 677-4548
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