4345714 Resolution 20-121, “Local Rent Supplement Program Contract No. 104-2008-0016A Approval Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2013”

                                                               A RESOLUTION

20-121

IN THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

 

May 7, 2013

 

 

To declare the existence of an emergency with respect to the need to approve a contract with  Hacienda Cooperative, Inc. to fund housing costs associated with affordable rental housing units for extremely low-income individuals’ households with area median incomes at or below 30% under the Local Rent Supplement Program administered by the District of Columbia Housing Authority.

 

RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, That this resolution may be cited as the “Local Rent Supplement Program Contract No. 104-2008-0016A Approval Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2013”.

 

Sec. 2.(a)  In 2007, the District passed Title II of the Fiscal Year 2007 Budget Support Emergency Act of 2006, signed by the Mayor on August 8, 2006 (D.C. Act 16-477; 53 DCR 7068) (“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 those with disabilities, through project-based, tenant-based, and sponsored-based LRSP affordable housing units.  The BSA provided for the District of Columbia Housing Authority (“DCHA”) to administer the LRSP of behalf of the District. 

            (b) Pursuant to the District of Columbia Housing Authority Act of 1999, effective May 9, 2000 (D.C. Law 13-105; D.C. Official Code § 6-201 et seq.), DCHA procured housing providers to provide affordable housing units under the LRSP.  Upon selection of housing providers, DCHA will enter into an Agreement to Enter Into Long Term Subsidy Contract (“ALTSC”) with each LRSP housing provider for housing services provided thereunder.

            (c) There exists an immediate need to approve an ALTSC with Hacienda Cooperative, Inc.  under the LRSP to address the urgent need for immediate renovation and repairs to the properties and to provide long-term affordable housing units for extremely low-income households in the District for units at 100, 102, 104, 108, and 110 58^th Street, S.E.

            (d) The emergency legislation to approve the contracts will authorize an ALTSC

between DCHA and Hacienda Cooperative, Inc. and allow the owner to commence urgently needed rehabilitation to house District of Columbia extremely low-income households with incomes at 30% or less of the area median income.

           

(e) Failure to approve the ALTSC with Hacienda Cooperative, Inc. could result in loss of the affordable rental housing for extremely low-income District residents with incomes at 30% or less of the area median income.

 

            Sec. 3. The Council determines that the circumstances enumerated in section 2 constitute emergency circumstances making it necessary that the Local Rent Supplement Program Contract No. 104-2008-0016A Emergency Approval Resolution of 2013 be adopted on an emergency basis.

 

            Sec. 4.  This resolution shall take effect immediately.