Fiscal Note
Funds for the contract were included in the 2016 Adopted Operating Budget as a result of a supplemental budget request. The adopted budget includes $100,000 in levy support for a purchased services contract for the creation of the Housing First Street Team. Funds are available in the CDD operating budget in MUNIS account 62112-54820 (Service: Affordable Housing, Object: Community Agency Contracts).
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SUBSTITUTE: Authorizing (a vendor to be identified by February 4, 2016) Heartland Health Outreach, Inc. to provide the services of a Street Outreach Team that will identify, engage and connect chronically homeless persons with local support resources, including permanent housing and individualized treatment plans geared toward achieving housing stability.
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WHEREAS, the City of Madison launched an Affordable Housing Initiative in 2014, aimed at expanding and improving the supply of affordable housing for Madison residents; and
WHEREAS, the Initiative calls for investments of nearly $25 million over five years to help finance the development of 1,000 new units of affordable rental housing; and
WHEREAS, one of the Initiative’s priorities is to increase the supply of permanent supportive housing (PSH) to serve chronically homeless persons, and about 250 of the 1,000 units of new housing to be created are intended to serve that population; and
WHEREAS, the City’s Housing First strategy, which combines permanent housing with the offer of supportive services needed to achieve housing stability, has been stymied by a shortage of available housing units in Madison; and
WHEREAS, the first of the City-supported PSH projects is currently under construction, with an anticipated opening in the Spring of 2016, and it will contribute the largest share (60 units) of nearly 100 units of PSH housing expected to become available during 2016 to help serve chronically homelessness persons in Madison; and
WHEREAS, candidates to fill these units will be d...
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