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(a) The Board of Supervisors hereby establishes the CAAP Discontinuance Rental Assistance Pilot Project ("Pilot Project").
(b) The purpose of the Pilot Project is to preserve the housing security of individuals who participate in the County Adult Assistance Programs (CAAP) and who reside in HSA-funded or DHSH-funded supportive housing where such persons have engaged in three negligent acts of noncompliance with program requirements.
(c) To be eligible for rental assistance under the Pilot Project, a person must:
(1) be a recipient of financial assistance through General Assistance (GA), the Personal Assisted Employment Services (PAES) Program, Cash Assistance Linked to Medi-Cal (CALM), or Supplemental Security Income Pending (SSIP), as those programs are set forth in Articles VII through XI of this Chapter 20 of the Administrative Code;
(2) reside in HSA-funded or DHSH-funded Single Room Occupancy (SRO) buildings; and
(3) be facing the discontinuance of financial assistance resulting from three acts of negligent failure to comply with CAAP program requirements.
(d) Notwithstanding subsection (c), persons will be ineligible for rental assistance under the Pilot Project if the discontinuance of their assistance is due to fraud, willful noncompliance with program requirements or loss of program eligibility due to other reasons, including increased income or assets or eligibility for another cash assistance program.
(e) Individuals who receive rental assistance under the Pilot Project shall be required to:
(1) reinstate to CAAP during the first month of the sanction period in order to reestablish an income source that will allow the individual to resume rental payments for the following month; and
(2) re-establish participation in a third-party rent payment service upon reinstatement to CAAP.
(f) The Pilot Project shall be implemented as follows:
(1) The Human Services Agency ("HSA") and DHSH shall administer the Pilot Project.
(2) When a CAAP recipient satisfies the eligibility criteria set forth in Section 20.1501(c), HSA shall discontinue cash benefits, but DHSH shall pay the client's share of rent directly to the housing provider for a period of one month following discontinuance.
(3) Eligible CAAP recipients may receive rental assistance benefits under the Pilot Project no more than once every six months, provided, however, that an eligible CAAP recipient shall not receive rental assistance benefits more than once if he or she has not complied with the program requirements set forth in Section 20.1501(e).
By October 1 of each year, DHSH shall submit to the Board of Supervisors a report describing the number of individuals who received benefits under the Pilot Project during the prior fiscal year and estimating the effectiveness of the Pilot Project at preserving housing security, and including recommendations as appropriate.
In establishing the Pilot Project, the City is assuming an undertaking only to promote the general welfare. It is not assuming, nor is it imposing on its officers and employees, an obligation for breach of which it is liable in money damages to any person who claims that such a breach proximately caused injury.
(Added by Ord. 74-16
, File No. 151279, App. 5/13/2016, Eff. 6/12/2016, Oper. 7/12/2016)
This Article XV shall expire by operation of law three years after the effective date of Ordinance No. 74-16 creating the Article. Upon expiration of the Article, the City Attorney shall cause it to be removed from the Administrative Code.
Definitions. | |
Coordinated Entry System; Priority Status. | |
Care Coordination. |
As used in this Article XVI, the following words or phrases shall have the following meanings:
“Department” means the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing.
“Permanent Supportive Housing” means subsidized rental housing without time limits and with on-site supportive services to help tenants maintain housing.
“Rapid-Rehousing” means a housing program model that assists individuals who are homeless to move quickly into permanent housing, usually to housing in the private market.
“Residential Behavioral Health Program” means a residential program in which the patient receives treatment for a substance use disorder and/or mental health disability.
(Added by Ord. 130-18, File No. 180322, App. 5/30/2018, Eff. 6/30/2018, Oper. 8/29/2018)
(a) The Department shall implement a Coordinated Entry System designed to assess people experiencing homelessness, so as to prioritize and refer such people to housing programs. People experiencing homelessness with the greatest barriers to housing, the longest histories of homelessness, and/or the highest level of vulnerability shall be prioritized for housing or other appropriate placements. The Department shall be responsible for developing the process and standards used to screen and prioritize homeless persons for housing programs in accordance with the three factors identified in the preceding sentence.
(b) When assessing and assigning single homeless adults to Rapid-Rehousing, or Permanent Supportive Housing (collectively, “Housing”), the Department shall recognize discharge from a Residential Behavioral Health Program of a program participant who was homeless upon entry into the Residential Behavioral Health Program as a vulnerability that will confer upon the program participant a priority, as determined by the Department, for such Housing. An individual’s eligibility for this priority shall be verified by the Department of Public Health.
(Added by Ord. 130-18, File No. 180322, App. 5/30/2018, Eff. 6/30/2018, Oper. 8/29/2018)
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