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Public Hearing

URBAN DESIGN VENTURES, LLC KARL HAGLUND & JAMIE PIOTROWSKI

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Entitlement Community

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Entitlement Program provides annual grants on a formula basis to entitled cities and counties to develop viable urban communities by providing decent housing and a suitable living environment, and by expanding economic opportunities, principally for low- and moderate-income persons. The City of Rockford receives the following entitlement grants:

• Community Development Block Grant (CDBG),
• HOME Investment Partnerships Program (HOME), and
• Emergency Solutions Grants (ESG)

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Five-Year Consolidated Plan

2020-2024

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Five Year Consolidated Plan

The Five-Year Consolidated Plan is designed to help states and local jurisdictions to assess their affordable housing and community development needs and market conditions, and to make data-driven, place-based investment decisions.

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Annual Action Plan

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Annual Action Plan

The Consolidated Plan is carried out through Annual Action Plans, which provide a concise summary of the actions, activities, and the specific federal and non-federal resources that will be used each year to address the priority needs and specific goals identified by the Consolidated Plan.

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Strategies and Goals

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Housing Strategy

HS-1 Housing Development – Increase the number of affordable housing units in the City for

• wners and renters by assisting with acquisition, development fees, construction, and

rehabilitation. HS-2 Housing Rehabilitation – Continue to assist with rehabilitating existing affordable housing units occupied by owners and renters in the City by addressing code violations, emergency repairs, energy efficiency improvements, and handicap accessibility. HS-3 Homeownership – Continue to assist low- and moderate-income homebuyers to purchase homes through down payment and closing cost assistance, including housing counseling fees. HS-4 Fair Housing – Promote fair housing choice through education, training, and outreach in the City of Rockford. HS-5 Project Delivery – Provide eligible program delivery and oversight for the CDBG and HOME funded housing projects/activities.

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Homeless Strategy

HMS-1 Housing – Support the Continuum of Care's efforts and applicants to provide emergency shelter, transitional housing, permanent supportive housing, and other permanent housing

• pportunities.

HMS-2 Operation/Support – Assist providers who operate housing or provide support services for the homeless and persons or families at-risk of becoming homeless. HMS-3 Prevention and Re-Housing – Assist the Continuum of Care’s efforts in prevention of homelessness through anti-eviction activities and program for rapid re-housing.

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Other Special Needs Strategy

SNS-1 Housing – Increase the supply of affordable, accessible, decent, safe, and sanitary housing for the elderly, persons with disabilities, persons with HIV/AIDS, victims of domestic violence, persons with alcohol/drug dependency, and persons with other special needs through rehabilitation of existing buildings and new construction. SNS-2 Social Services – Support social service programs and facilities for the elderly, persons with disabilities, persons with HIV/AIDS, victims of domestic violence, persons with alcohol/drug dependency, and persons with other special needs. SNS-3 Accessibility – Promote and assist in making accessibility improvements for homeowners, making reasonable accommodations, and bring public facilities and infrastructure into compliance with Federal and State Laws.

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Community Development Strategy

CDS-1 Community Facilities – Improve parks, bikeways and trails, recreational facilities, and all public and community facilities including accessibility improvements to public buildings and all community facilities in the City. CDS-2 Infrastructure – Improve the public infrastructure through rehabilitation, reconstruction, and new construction, of streets, sidewalks, bridges, curbs, walkways, water, storm water, sanitary sewer, handicap accessibility improvements/removal of architectural barriers, etc. CDS-3 Public Services – Improve and enhance public services, programs for youth, the elderly, disabled, and general public service programs for low- and moderate-income persons. CDS-4 Code Enforcement – Undertake code enforcement activities to maintain the existing housing stock in the City.

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Community Development Strategy

CDS-5 Public Safety – Improve public safety facilities, equipment, crime prevention, community policing, and ability to respond to emergency situations in the City. CDS-6 Clearance/Demolition – Remove and eliminate slum and blighting conditions through demolition of vacant, abandoned, and dilapidated structures. CDS-7 Accessibility Improvements – Improve handicap accessibility improvements and removal

• f architectural barriers to public and community facilities

CDS-8 Transportation – Support the expansion of transportation options to assist low- and moderate-income residents in the City.

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Economic Development Strategy

EDS-1 Employment – Support and encourage job creation, job retention, and job training

• pportunities.

EDS-2 Development – Support business and commercial growth through rehabilitation of store fronts and retail space, expansion of businesses, and the development of new businesses. EDS-3 Redevelopment – Plan and promote the development, redevelopment, and revitalization

• f vacant and underutilized commercial and industrial sites.

EDS-4 Access to Transportation – Support the expansion of public transportation and access to bus and automobile service to assist residents to get to work or training opportunities.

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Administration, Planning, and Management Strategy

AMS-1 Overall Coordination – Provide program management and oversight for the successful administration of Federal, State, and locally funded programs, including planning services for special studies, annual action plans, five year consolidated plans, substantial amendments, consolidated annual performance and evaluation reports (CAPER), environmental reviews and clearances, fair housing, and compliance with all Federal, State, and local laws and regulations.

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FY 2020 Annual Action Plan Budget

The City of Rockford proposes to undertake the following activities with the FY 2020 funds: Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Funds: $2,101,348

• CDBG Administration - $377,261
• Housing Services (HOME Activity Delivery Costs) - $177,003
• CDBG Housing Rehabilitation Administration - $225,345
• CDBG Housing Rehabilitation - $690,000
• Fair Housing - $10,000
• Demolition - $413,541
• Economic Development - $125,000
• Section 108 Stand-by Loan Debt Service - $83,198

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FY 2020 Annual Action Plan Budget Cont.

HOME Investment Partnerships Program (HOME) Funds: $895,627

• HOME Administration - $88,983
• HOME Housing Rehabilitation - $550,884
• Homebuyer - $76,635
• CHDO Affordable Housing - $134,344
• CHDO Operating - $44,781

Emergency Solutions Grants (ESG) Funds: $180,781 Funds can be used for ESG Administration, Essential Services, Operating/Rehab of Emergency Shelters, Homeless Prevention/Rapid Re-housing, and HMIS. Notes: This 2020 budget is based on the 2019 allocation. Adjustments will be made once actual allocations are announced by the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Any increases

• r decreases in CDBG and/or HOME funds will be applied to projects in need or slow moving,
• respectively. The City anticipates that it will incur pre-award costs for 2020 funds.

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Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice

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Analysis of Impediments

An Analysis of Impediments (AI) is an assessment of a state or a unit of local government’s laws,

• rdinances, statutes, and administrative policies as well as local conditions that affect the

location, availability, and accessibility of housing.

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Identified Impediments

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• 1. Fair Housing Education and Outreach

There is a need to educate persons about their rights under the Fair Housing Act and to raise community awareness to affirmatively further fair housing choice, especially for low-income residents, minorities and the disabled population who fear retaliation if they lodge a complaint. Goal: The public in general and local officials will become knowledgeable and aware of the Fair Housing Act, related laws, regulations, and requirements to affirmatively further fair housing in the city.

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Strategies

1-A: Continue to promote Fair Housing awareness through the media, seminars, and training to provide educational opportunities for all persons to learn more about their rights under the Fair Housing Act and Americans With Disabilities Act. 1-B: Continue to distribute literature and informational material concerning fair housing issues, an individual’s housing rights, and landlord’s responsibilities to affirmatively further fair housing. 1-C: Promote housing choice so residents with the same financial means may choose to live anywhere in the City.

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• 2. Need for Decent, Safe, and Affordable

Rental Housing

The City of Rockford does not have a sufficient supply of rental housing that is decent, safe, and

• sound. In many cases, landlords often don’t maintain their property to code standards which

result in unsafe living conditions for tenants. However, the monthly cost of rent for apartments has steadily increased due to the limited supply of rental housing, despite the condition of the rental unit. Goal: The supply of affordable rental housing that is decent, safe, and sound will meet the needs of all renter households throughout the City of Rockford, through new construction and in-fill housing, the rehabilitation of existing occupied structures and vacant buildings, and the development of mixed-income buildings.

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Strategies

2-A: Support and encourage both private developers and non-profit housing providers to develop and construct new affordable mixed and middle income rental housing that would be located throughout the City of Rockford. 2-B: Support and encourage the rehabilitation of existing housing units in the City to create decent, safe, and sound rental housing that is affordable to lower income households. 2-C: Continue to provide funding for Code Enforcement to identify buildings and units that need to be maintained and rehabilitated in accordance with local codes.

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• 3. Lack of Affordable Homeownership

Opportunities

Home values and access to traditional mortgage financing have decreased since the recession, partly due to significantly higher credit standards and the age of Rockford’s housing stock. Homes within an affordable price range require rehabilitation, which limits the availability of mortgage financing programs for lower income households. Goal: For-sale single family homes for lower income households will be developed through new construction, in-fill housing, and rehabilitation of vacant houses.

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Strategies

3-A: Support homebuyer education and training programs to improve homebuyer awareness and increase the opportunities for lower-income households to become homebuyers. 3-B: Support and provide funds for downpayment assistance to lower-income households to become homeowners. 3-C: Support and encourage plans from both private developers and non-profit housing providers to develop and construct new affordable housing that is for-sale. 3-D: Support and encourage the acquisition, rehabilitation and resale of existing housing units to become decent, safe, and sound. 3-E: Partner with private and non-profit developers to increase opportunities for ‘rent to own’ housing

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• 4. Need for Accessible Housing Units That

Are For-Sale or Rent

There is a lack of accessible housing units in the City of Rockford. Most of the existing housing units do not have accessible features. The City’s disabled population has grown to 15.5% of the total population. Goal: Increase the number of accessible housing units through new construction and rehabilitation of existing housing units for the physically disabled and developmentally delayed.

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Strategies

4-A: Support home rehabilitation programs that financially assist seniors and people with disabilities to provide a safe and accessible home in order to continue to age in place. 4-B: Support and encourage the development of accessible housing units in the City. 4-C: Provide fair housing education and outreach to seniors and people with disabilities to address fear of reporting housing and code violations. 4-D: Enforce the ADA and Fair Housing requirements for landlords to make “reasonable accommodations” to their rental properties so they become accessible to tenants with disabilities.

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• 5. Economic Issues that affect Fair

Housing Choice

There is a lack of economic opportunities in the City which prevent low-income households from improving their income and ability to live outside areas with concentrations of low-income households, which makes this a fair housing concern. Goal: The local economy will provide new job opportunities, which will increase household income, and will promote fair housing choice.

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Strategies

5-A: Continue to provide support, education, and technical assistance opportunities to minority, women owned and small businesses 5-B: Support and enhance workforce development and skills training that result in a “livable wage” and increases job opportunities. 5-C: Continue to promote and encourage economic development with local commercial and industrial firms to expand their operations and increase employment opportunities. 5-D: Support and encourage efforts for improvements in public transportation options in the City to allow for second and third shift workers. 5-E: Support and encourage private and non-profit developers and businesses to provide assets (grocery stores, services, etc.) in low to moderate income neighborhoods

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Neighborhood Revitalization Strategy Area (NRSA)

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NRSA

A Neighborhood Revitalization Strategy Area (NRSA) is a Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) grantee-designated area targeted for revitalization. An NRSA is different from other local targeted areas in that the designation is reviewed and approved by HUD. Communities with approved NRSAs are offered enhanced flexibility in undertaking economic development, housing, and public service activities with their CDBG funds.

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Areas of Enhanced Regulatory Flexibility

Job creation or retention effort focused on the selected neighborhood may be classified as meeting the LMI area benefit national objective requirements. Aggregation of housing units for which CDBG funds are obligated during each program year and treat them as a single structure.

• 51 percent of total number of units must be occupied by LMI households.

Economic development activities carried out in the NRSA may be excluded from the aggregate public benefit standards.

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Target Areas

• Census Tract 10, Block Group 2
• Census Tract 11, Block Group 2
• Census Tract 12 Block Groups 1, and 2
• Census Tract 13 Block Groups 1, and 3
• Census Tract 22, Block Group 3
• Census Tract 27, Block Group 1, 2, and 3
• Census Tract 28, Block Group 1, and 2

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Existing Land Use

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Structural Conditions

Sound Condition – 780 Structures Minor Rehabilitation – 1,570 Structures Major Rehabilitation – 1,294 Structures Economically Infeasible – 250 Structures

20.03% 40.32% 33.23% 6.42% Sound Condition Minor Rehabilitation Major Rehabilitation Economically Infeasible

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Goals

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Short Term Goals

• Remove substandard structures
• Continue to undertake recreation improvements
• Continue and promote homeownership

programs

• Promote mixed income housing developments
• Assemble sites for commercial and industrial

development

• Promote homeownership through housing

counseling programs

• Continue to rehabilitate owner occupied housing
• Promote rehabilitation of renter occupied

housing

• Rehabilitate commercial properties
• Promote Minority and Women owned business
• pportunities
• Continue the City’s code enforcement program
• Build relationships with community policing
• Develop a summer job training program for area

youth

• Promote and certify a new CHDO organization to

develop housing

• Promote and advertise education and job

training programs available

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Long Term Goals

• Develop attractive and marketable development

sites

• Revitalize vacant and underutilized commercial

and industrial land

• Ensure the continued preservation of the existing

housing stock

• Reconstruct streets, sidewalks, curbs, and

infrastructure

• Look to develop the land that surrounds Keith

Creek as greenway

• Provide information and refer NRSA residents to

The Workforce Connection for job placement and mentorship opportunities through the trades or

• ther skills
• Obtain commitments from local businesses or

companies to provide additional training and on- the-job placement programs to residents

• Utilize Rock Valley College Tech Works program

to retrain or train residents

• Work with small businesses to provide links to

banks for financial assistance, and technical assistance

• Continue to promote/market revolving loan fund
• Support a “loan pool” with the local banks with

bank funds to match Federal and State funds.

• Increase the number of service businesses

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Measurable Outcomes

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Measurable Outcomes

NEIGHBORHOOD IMPROVEMENT

• Rehabilitate one-hundred (100) owner
• ccupied homes in the NRSA.
• Demolition of fifty (50) structures in the NRSA.

NEW HOUSING DEVELOPMENT

• Increase homeownership opportunities for

five (5) low- to moderate-income homebuyers.

• Construction of ten (10) new single-family

houses by housing partners.

• Assist in the development of a CBDO and

CHDO in the City of Rockford to help develop housing in the NRSA.

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Measurable Outcomes Cont.

PUBLIC SAFETY IMPROVEMENTS

• Engage community and neighborhood

associations with public safety information and resources.

• Decrease in crime statistics in the NRSA

CITIZEN INVOLVEMENT

• Distribution of informational material to

NRSA residents on an annual basis.

• Organize citizen meetings in the

neighborhood to explain progress and solicit citizen input.

• Promote the formation of citizen

participation and engage existing coalitions for housing, public safety, public relations, etc.

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Measurable Outcomes Cont.

INTER-AGENCY COOPERATION

• Support the formation of joint ventures

between the non-profit housing development corporations and private developers.

• Assemble sites to build new houses and

purchase existing houses for rehab and resale using non-profit and other housing development agencies.

• Continue City code enforcement on a

systematic block by block basis.

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES

• Assemble sites for new economic development.
• Promote business façade renovations in the

NRSA.

• Provide economic incentives in the Business

Areas of the NRSA to revitalize five (5) commercial buildings.

• Create five (5) new job opportunities in the

NRSA.

• Demolition of up to two (2) vacant dilapidated

commercial/industrial structures.

• Promote job training opportunities through

partnerships with non-profits, education centers, and economic development agencies to residents in the NRSA.

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Questions & Public Comment

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