5428234 Resolution 21-65, Local Rent Supplement Program Contract No. 2014-LRSP-01A Approval and Payment Authorization Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2015

                                                                                               

 

A RESOLUTION

21-65

IN THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

 

March 17, 2015

 

 

To declare the existence of an emergency with respect to the need to approve an agreement to enter into a long-term subsidy contract  for a multiyear term of 15 years in support of the District’s Local Rent Supplement Program  to fund housing costs associated with affordable housing units for Contract No. 2014-LRSP-01A with Girard Street Community Partners, LLC, for affordable housing units at the Girard Street Senior Apartments located at 1545 Girard Street, N.E., and to authorize payment for housing services to be received under the contract.  

 

RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, That this resolution

may be cited as the “Local Rent Supplement Program Contract No. 2014-LRSP-01A Approval and Payment Authorization Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2015”.

 

Sec. 2.  (a) In 2007, the District passed title II of the Fiscal Year 2007 Budget Support Act of 2006 (“BSA”) to provide funding for affordable housing for extremely-low-income households in the District.  The passage of the BSA created the Local Rent Supplement Program (“LRSP”), a program designed to provide affordable housing and supportive services to extremely-low-income District residents, including those who are homeless or in need of supportive services, such as elderly individuals or individuals with disabilities, through project-based, tenant-based and sponsor-based LRSP affordable housing units. The BSA provided for the District of Columbia Housing Authority (“DCHA”) to administer the LRSP on behalf of the District. 

(b)  In April 2014, DCHA participated in a Request for Proposals issued by the Department of Housing and Community Development (“DHCD”). Of the total proposals received, 11 developers were chosen to work with DCHA and other District agencies to develop affordable housing and permanent supportive housing units for extremely-low-income families earning between 0% and 30% of the area’s median income, as well as the chronically homeless and individuals with mental or physical disabilities throughout the District. Upon approval by the Council, DCHA will enter into an Agreement to Enter into a Long Term Contract (“ALTSC”) with the selected housing providers under the LRSP for housing services.

(c) There exists an immediate need to approve a certain ALTSC with Girard Street Community Partners, LLC, under the LRSP in order to provide long-term affordable housing units for extremely- low-income households for units at the Girard Street Senior Apartments located at 1545 Girard Street, N.E.  

(d) The emergency legislation to approve the contract will authorize an ALTSC between the DCHA and Girard Street Community Partners, LLC, with respect to the payment of rental subsidies, and allow the owner to lease the rehabilitated units at the Girard Street Senior Apartments and house extremely-low-income households.

 

Sec. 3. The Council of the District of Columbia determines that the circumstances enumerated in section 2 constitute emergency circumstances making it necessary that the Local Rent Supplement Program Contract No. 2014-LRSP-01A Approval and Payment Authorization Emergency Act of 2015 be adopted after a single reading.

Sec. 4. This resolution shall take effect immediately.