The decision should be made with guidance from lead agency and/or program level.
From HUDhre.info: HUD is giving grantees the discretion to determine how to handle security deposits. The grantee may recover the security deposit, in which case it must be treated as program income. Alternately, the grantee may allow the household to keep the deposit and use it towards their next unit. Finally, the landlord or property management company may keep a portion of the deposit if it is needed to pay for costs incurred by the tenant such as damages to the unit.
Sample agreement: http://www.hudhre.info/documents/DepositReturnAgreement.doc
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HUD's Additional HPRP Eligibility Criteria Suggestions
Funding can be used to serve individuals or families and those that are homeless or at-risk of homelessness. HUD strongly encourages grantees and subgrantees to target prevention to those who would be homeless "but for this assistance." In the Notice, HUD includes the following criteria that it hopes communities will use to determine if someone is at risk:
· Eviction within 2 weeks from a private dwelling (including housing provided by family or friends—already in practice here in CT)
· Discharge within 2 weeks from an institution in which the person has been a resident for more than 180 days (including prisons, mental health institutions, and hospitals)
· Residency in housing that has been condemned by housing officials and is no longer meant for human habitation
· Sudden and significant loss of income
· Sudden and significant increase in utility costs
· Mental health and substance abuse issues
· Physical disabilities and other chronic health issues, including HIV/AIDS
· Severe housing cost burden (greater than 50 percent of income for housing costs)
· Homeless in last 12 months
· Young head of household (under 25 with children or pregnant)
· Current or past involvement with child welfare, including foster care
· Extremely low income (less than 30 percent of Area Median Income)
· High overcrowding (the number of persons exceeds health and/or safety standards for the housing unit size)
· Past institutional care (prison, treatment facility, hospital)
· Recent traumatic life event, such as death of a spouse or primary care provider, or recent health crisis that prevented the household from meeting its financial responsibilities
· Credit problems that preclude obtaining of housing
· Significant amount of medical debt.
· Eviction within 2 weeks from a private dwelling (including housing provided by family or friends—already in practice here in CT)
· Discharge within 2 weeks from an institution in which the person has been a resident for more than 180 days (including prisons, mental health institutions, and hospitals)
· Residency in housing that has been condemned by housing officials and is no longer meant for human habitation
· Sudden and significant loss of income
· Sudden and significant increase in utility costs
· Mental health and substance abuse issues
· Physical disabilities and other chronic health issues, including HIV/AIDS
· Severe housing cost burden (greater than 50 percent of income for housing costs)
· Homeless in last 12 months
· Young head of household (under 25 with children or pregnant)
· Current or past involvement with child welfare, including foster care
· Extremely low income (less than 30 percent of Area Median Income)
· High overcrowding (the number of persons exceeds health and/or safety standards for the housing unit size)
· Past institutional care (prison, treatment facility, hospital)
· Recent traumatic life event, such as death of a spouse or primary care provider, or recent health crisis that prevented the household from meeting its financial responsibilities
· Credit problems that preclude obtaining of housing
· Significant amount of medical debt.
Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing
Close to $17 million in federal "stimulus" funds has come to the State of Connecticut and to Bridgeport, Hartford, New Britain, New Haven and Waterbury as entitlement communities to address the escalating homelessness crisis through Homeless Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing. This blog hosts FAQs, tools and resource information to make best use of these time-limited funds to house people.
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