Program Summary
The Community Based Organization, Inc. (CBO) and the Local Neighborhood Organization, Inc. (LNO) have partnered to develop an exciting and innovative initiative for assisted housing in the economically distressed neighborhood of the City that we serve. The Community Housing and Training (CRT) Program will provide occupational training construction skills and on-the-job-experience as well as basic educational services and leadership development counseling to disadvantaged youth in conjunction with the rehabilitation of 40 units of low-income rental housing and vacant commercial space.
This proposal requests $700,000.00 from the Department of Neighborhood Preservation for the Non-Housing and Administrative components of our Community Housing and Training program. We anticipate that the Department of Neighborhood Preservation grant will be an essential and primary part of our program and will add a crucial training and educational component to the program permitting us to both extend our efforts in the field of counseling and training as well as lower our construction costs so we may serve the community with a larger number of assisted units.
The program which the partners envision is multifaceted, comprehensive and innovative. The neighborhood has a tremendous need for additional assisted housing with little vacant land and few appropriate sites. The CBO and the LNO have identified an appropriate site and will rehabilite a 40-unit building with 36 units of housing and 4 commercial units as a component of this program.
The Housing component will provide aid not only to those families requiring assisted housing but also to those families left homeless after fire. We anticipate that 25 percent of the units will be set aside for transitional housing for homeless families that are victims of disaster. Social and other necessary services will be provided for them on site. The Housing component will be financed through the State Housing Fund, Federal low-income tax credits and Section A subsidy, State Housing Trust Fund, City funds, conventional lending, and public and private matching funds.
We have the enthusiastic cooperation of the State, City, the Housing Authority, the District Leaders as well as community groups and other private organizations.
