Draft Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report for Fiscal Year 2001
Department of Housing and Community Development
December 2001

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Anthony A. Williams, Mayor
Eric Price, Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development
Government of the District of Columbia
Stanley Jackson, Acting Director
Department of Housing and Community Development
801 North Capitol Street, NE
Washington, DC 20002
(202) 442-7200
December 2001

Executive Summary
Part I: Summary of Resources and Accomplishments

A. Summary of Resources

1. Total Funding
2. Leveraging
3. Program Descriptions
4. Program Budgets

B. Summary of Accomplishments

1. Homebuyer Assistance and Housing Recycling Preservation
2. Affordable Housing Production
3. Community Organization Support and Homeless Support and Prevention
4. Economic and Commercial Development

Part II: Evaluation of FY 2001 Annual Performance

A. Homebuyer Assistance and Housing Recycling Preservation
B. Affordable Housing Production
C. Community Organization Support and Homeless Support and Prevention
D. Economic and Commercial Development
E. Georgia Avenue Neighborhood Revitalization Strategy Area
F. Carver Terrrace/Langston Terrace/Trinidad/Ivy City Neighborhood Revitalization Strategy Areas

Part III: HOME Program Performance
Part IV: Public Participation Requirements
Part V: Fair Housing
Part VI: HOPWA Program Performance
Appendix 1: Integrated Disbursement and Information System Reports [not yet available on-line]
Appendix 2: District of Columbia Enterprise Community Annual Report
Appendix 3: Continuum of Care [not provided before final report]
Appendix 4: Financial Summary [not provided before final report]

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The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) requires each of its federal entitlement grant recipients to file a Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report (CAPER). The CAPER must be submitted to HUD within 90 days after the close of the grantee's fiscal year and after a 15-day public comment and review period.

The CAPER provides HUD with necessary information to assess a grantee's ability to carry out its programs, and presents operational information on the grantee's activities to the general public in its local jurisdiction as well as to the Congress.

This CAPER reports on the activities of the D.C. Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) for its fiscal year 2001 (CD-26)-the 26th year of DHCD's participation in the Community Development Block Grant program.

The four federal entitlement grants covered under the CAPER include:

• Community Development Block Grant Program (CDBG)
• HOME Investment Partnerships Program (HOME)
• Emergency Shelter Grants Program (ESG)
• Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS Program (HOPWA)

Total funding to the District from the four entitlement grants in DHCD's FY 2001 (HUD's FY 2000 was $52,728,251. HOPWA funds ($3,668.092) go directly to, and are administered by, the Administration for HIV/AIDS, D. C. Department of Health.

The CAPER provides descriptive, budgetary, and performance information on DHCD's various housing and community development programs. In addition, it provides discussions of program issues such as the designated Georgia Avenue and Carver Terrace/Langston Terrace/Trinidad/ Ivy City Neighborhood Revitalization Strategy Areas, public participation, Continuum of Care, Enterprise Community, and fair housing.

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The District of Columbia's Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report (CAPER) describes and evaluates the actions of the Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) during Fiscal Year (FY) 2001 (October 1, 2001 through September 30, 2001) to address the five major goals identified in its Consolidated Plan for the FY 2001 - 2005 period. These goals are:

• Home Ownership Housing
• Neighborhood Housing Preservation and Rental Housing
• Community Development and Support Services
• Homeless and Special Population Housing
• Special Housing Support Services

The Consolidated Plan provides a five-year strategy to address the city's housing and community development needs. Several strategic initiatives were introduced in the Consolidated Plan to address those needs. The CAPER evaluates and assesses DHCD's performance as it relates to the five initiatives.

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During FY 2001, the District of Columbia received entitlement grants from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) as indicated in Table 1.

DHCD is the grant administrator for the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG), HOME Investment Partnerships (HOME), and Emergency Shelter Grant (ESG) programs. HUD allocated Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS (HOPWA) program funds totaling $6,335,000 for the District of Columbia, Suburban Maryland, Northern Virginia, and West Virginia region. The city's share of this regional allocation (fifty-six percent) was $3,668,092 and was administered through the D.C. Department of Health, Agency for HIV/AIDS. The HUD entitlement grants for FY 2001, including program income, total $52,728,251.

In addition to the entitlement funds received during FY 2001, the city had carryover funds from prior years. Table 2 depicts the amount of prior year carryover funds, FY 2001 funds, and total expenditures for the year for CDBG, HOME, ESG and local appropriated funds. Information on the HOPWA program is reported in Part VI.

*Additional funding from HUD totaling $1,521,341.78, was received as follows: 1) $1,000,000 for Land Disposition; 2) $500,000 for Relocation Services; and 3) $21,341.78 for Salary Adjustments.
**Reflects amount in "*" above.

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The grant award criteria of the District's housing and community development programs require the maximum use of private financial resources. Whenever possible, public funds are used to "close the gap" in providing the financing needed for selected projects. The District's housing production programs are often leveraged with private funds, usually with a ratio of one DHCD dollar to every three or four dollars from other sources.

Based on a sampling of 10 applications proceeding to a Letter of Commitment for funding, the total development cost was $285.79 million, with the District providing $17.99 million of funding, which leveraged $267.70 million of other financing. The leveraging ratio was 1:14.8.

The Homestead Housing Preservation Program is being re-engineered to reduce the timeframe between winning the property and the actual move-in date. The program continues to assist previous lottery winners in achieving their dream of home ownership.

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The mission of DHCD is to strengthen District neighborhoods by facilitating the production and preservation of housing, commercial, and economic development opportunities. To accomplish this mission, the Department established five priority program areas in which to undertake community planning and development initiatives. Following are descriptions of the activities and programs undertaken during FY 2001.

The main thrust of this initiative is to promote new homeownership and protect existing homeownership throughout most of the residential areas of the city. Homebuyer assistance is provided through the Home Purchase Assistance Program. Homebuyer assistance is also provided through the Home Ownership Developers' Incentive Fund (HoDIF), which helps lower the cost of certain newly constructed housing units to eligible purchasers and the Tenants Apartment Purchase Program. The recycling of abandoned and vacant housing is provided through the Homestead Housing Preservation Program. The preservation of home ownership is provided through the Single-Family Residential Rehabilitation Program and the Senior Citizen Home Repair and Improvement Program (SCHRIP).

HOPE Housing Programs: The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) offers a variety of grant programs to public and nonprofit housing developers to encourage home ownership of public housing and housing which is publicly owned by local governments and/or obtained through foreclosure under federal insurance programs. Funds provide assistance for both planning and actual development of housing affordable by lower-income households.

Federal Housing Administration (FHA)/Veterans Administration (VA) Insurance Programs: HUD and VA offer mortgage insurance programs to provide private lender security for first mortgage loans for home purchasers within defined price limits.

The District's five-year planning strategy strongly encourages the expansion of home ownership in the city. Home ownership lends stability to neighborhoods, encourages families to remain in the city, and supports the city's tax base. The city's efforts will be focused on providing ownership assistance as part of neighborhood improvement and stabilization activities. Specific programs in this initiative are described below:

1. Home Purchase Assistance Program (HPAP): Provides financial assistance in the form of interestfree and low-interest loans to qualified District residents to enable them to purchase homes, condominiums, or cooperative apartments. Qualified households who are accepted into the threetiered program are eligible for loans to meet down payment and closing cost requirements. The amount of the loan is based on a combination of factors including income, household size, and the amount of assets that each applicant has to commit toward the purchase price. Loans provided are subordinate to private first trust mortgages. Also included: 1) the EmployerAssisted Housing; and 2) the Metropolitan Police Housing Assistance programs.

2. D.C. Employer Assisted Housing Program: This program provides grants and deferred loans of up to $11,500 to employees of the District of Columbia Government who are first time home buyers in the District of Columbia. Additional financial incentives are also provided to police officers who purchase homes in the District.

3. Home Ownership Developers Incentive Fund (HODIF): This program provides grants to Community Development Corporations and other nonprofit development entities to help lower the sales price of units developed by nonprofits to make them affordable by low- and moderateincome purchasers.

4. Housing Preservation Program: This program takes possession of tax delinquent real property (and, occasionally, DHCD foreclosures) and sells them to first-time home buyers for as little as $250 per unit. In exchange, the home buyer commits to enroll in and complete a home ownership training course, rehabilitate the property, reside in the property for a minimum of five years, and return it to the real property tax rolls. Low- and moderate-income participants receive a $10,000 deferred mortgage to assist them with gap financing. It also sells apartment buildings and vacant lots to developers who ultimately sell the units to first-time homebuyers - as well as commercial property to neighborhood-based businesses and non-profits that are providing services.

5. Single Family Housing Rehabilitation Program: This program is a source of low-cost financing for the rehabilitation of one to four unit housing which is either owner-occupied or investor-owned and located primarily in designated Community Development Areas and Enterprise Communities within the District of Columbia. The program provides low-interest amortized loans for up to 20 years and no interest deferred loans, depending on the financial circumstances of the borrower and the amount of rehabilitation required to correct code deficiencies. Additional initiatives within this program include: 1) the Weatherization/Roofing Assistance Program;

6.[sic] 2) the Lead Based Paint Abatement Program; and 3) the Handicapped Accessibility Improvement Program.

7. Tenants' Apartment Purchase Program: This program offers financial assistance to low- and moderate-income occupants of rental housing in the District to purchase their homes when threatened with displacement because of a proposed sale of their buildings to a third party. The program is used primarily to assist the purchase of multi-family buildings.

8. Senior Citizen Home Repair Program (SCHRIP): This program provides low- cost loans to elderly homeowners to make emergency home repairs needed to correct deficiencies which are a threat to their health and safety.

The District of Columbia is committed to increasing the quantity of affordable housing available through construction of new housing and preserving its aging housing stock. The thrust to produce affordable housing through its creation and renovation is part of an overall effort to maintain healthy and viable neighborhoods for all District residents, including segments of the population with special needs. Particularly encouraged is additional ownership housing in areas with high concentrations of lowerincome and/or rental housing to bring more balance and stability to those areas. The Department supports neighborhood improvement efforts to achieve an overall positive impact on neighborhood conditions and livability. Supplemented by significant private sector financing, all of the programs in this initiative support the home ownership goal and help broaden the base of affordable housing in the District.

Section 8 Existing Housing: Provides rental subsidies to assist low- income tenants to pay the gap between what they can afford and the market rent levels of private apartments. Assistance is administered through the D.C. Housing Authority (DCHA).

Section 202: Provides construction and Section 8 rental assistance subsidies in projects developed as elderly housing by nonprofit housing developers.

Public Housing Development: Provides funding to local housing authorities (e.g., DCHA) for development of additional public housing units. Funding on a national level is extremely limited.

Public Housing Comprehensive Grant Program: Provides funding to DCHA for repair and modernization of existing public housing units.

FHA Insurance Programs: FHA mortgage insurance is available for development of multifamily rental housing to provide private lender security for first mortgage loans within defined program guidelines.

Low Income Housing Tax Credit Program (LIHTC): This program provides federal income tax credits to developers of new or rehabilitated rental housing for the production of housing affordable to low- and moderate-income persons.

Section 811: Provides construction arid Section 8 rental assistance subsidies in projects developed as housing for persons with disabilities (including persons with AIDS) by nonprofit housing developers.

Section 8 Moderate Rehabilitate (SRO): Provides rental subsidies for Section 8 rental assistance in projects developed as single room occupancy (SRO) housing, primarily for homeless or special needs populations. Subsidies are provided to developers through the District of Columbia Housing Authority (DCHA).

McKinney Housing Programs: The "McKinney" housing programs are actually several different federal programs available to local governments and nonprofit organizations to support the development and operation of a variety of housing programs targeted at meeting the needs of homeless and other special need housing groups. These programs include:

• Emergency Shelter Grants (ESG)
• Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS (HOPWA)
• Supportive Housing
• Shelter Plus Care
• Safe Havens
• Transitional Housing

Section 8 Existing Housing: Special set-asides for the homeless may be funded by HUD to provide rental subsidies to assist low-income tenant to pay the gap between what they can afford and the market rent levels of private apartments. Assistance is administered through the DCHA.

Federal Housing Administration (FHA) Programs: FHA mortgage-insurance is available for development of single family and multi-family special need housing to provide private lender security for first mortgage loans within defined program guidelines.

Construction Assistance Program: Provides for a variety of site development activities supporting the construction of residential, commercial, and industrial projects. Supported development activities include real estate and reuse appraisals, the demolition of existing structures, installation, removal, or relocation of existing public and private utilities, soil borings, grading, feasibility and marketing studies, advertising, and public hearings.

Multi-Family Housing Rehabilitation Program: This program is a source of low-cost interim construction financing and permanent financing for the rehabilitation of residential property containing five or more units. In addition, the Apartment Improvement Program (AIP) provides technical assistance to rental housing development to develop comprehensive improvement plans in involving owners, renters, and financial institutions in a cooperative effort to upgrade rental housing. The Distressed Property Improvement and Tax Abatement and Incentives Programs provide tax relief and other financial incentives (e.g., deferral or forgiveness of delinquent property tax liens and water/sewer fees) to occupied rental properties where owners are willing to make property repairs and retain lower income occupancy as authorized in §§ 804 and 805 of the Rental Housing Act of 1985.

Affordable Housing Production Assistance Program: This program combines into one program all of the housing production support activities of several programs, including the Community Land Acquisition Program, Property Purchase for Rehabilitation and Housing Development Program, LowIncome Housing Tax Credit, and Real Estate Appraisal Services. This program offers important supports to developers to aid in the production of affordable housing.

1. Community Land Acquisition Program: Provides assistance to nonprofit land trusts to acquire land and buildings for development of low- and moderate-income housing. Title to the property is retained by the nonprofit trust with provisions for permanent dedication for use as low-and moderate-income housing.
2. Property Purchase for Rehabilitation and Housing Development Program: Provides for DHCD purchase of private property (on a voluntary basis and/or through the foreclosure process) for resale for rehabilitation and housing development. -Properties acquired may be deteriorated or vacant, and may be acquired in conjunction with the District's Homesteading Program.
3. Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC): Provides federal income tax credits to developers of new or rehabilitated rental housing for the production of housing affordable to low- and moderate-income persons.
4. Real Estate Appraisal Services: This activity funds appraisals, title reports, and other services related to the acquisition and disposition of real property and of other programs as needed.

Housing Finance for the Elderly, Dependent and Disabled (HoFEDD): Provides financing to private, for profit, and nonprofit applicants to develop housing, including communitybased residential facilities, for households with special housing needs, including the elderly, disabled, homeless and individuals undergoing treatment for substance abuse. DHCD provides the acquisition and rehabilitation assistance in the form of deferred or amortized loans to qualified organizations for eligible activities.

Housing Production Trust Fund: This program provides financial assistance to nonprofit and forprofit developers for the production of low- to moderate-income housing and related facilities on a citywide basis. Operating as a revolving fund using public and private funds from many sources, the program assists a wide range of housing activities dealing with all aspects of housing production and preservation. Housing assisted may be either rental or ownership housing.

Land Acquisition for Housing Development Opportunities: The program acquires property (using primarily District capital budget funds) and provides for long-term lease-back or low cost terms to private developers that produce low- and moderate-income rental housing.

Community Housing Development Organizations: Under the federal regulations governing the District's participation in the HOME program, 15 percent of the HOME entitlement grant is set aside to fund Community Housing Development Organizations, or CHDO activities. Development organizations must be certified by DHCD to participate in the CHDO program. Investments in CHDOs under this *program are for the purpose of expanding the capacities of these nonprofit organizations to develop and manage decent and affordable housing in the District.

Multi-Family Rental Housing Program: Operated through the D.C. Housing Finance Agency, uses tax-free mortgage bond to provide first trust construction and permanent financing at below market interest rates for developers of new or rehabilitated multi-family housing in the District.

The goals and objectives under this program support nonprofit community-based organizations that provide:

1. comprehensive, housing counseling services to low- and moderate-income households in the District;
2. funding for fair housing studies and information to citizens regarding fair housing;
3. specific services, such as comprehensive housing counseling, intake of applications, and community outreach and education; and
4. special grant funds designed to give CDCs the ability to take a financial stake in strategic business and economic development projects in their service communities.

Neighborhood Development Assistance Program (NDAP): The District government provides operations funding support Tor nonprofit Community Development Corporations (CDCs). The objective of the NDAP is to provide administrative assistance to CDCs to pursue neighborhood revitalization projects and activities, with an emphasis on job retention/creation and business and community development services.

Community-Based Organizations Neighborhood Services Program: This program supports nonprofit community-based organizations (CBOs) to provide comprehensive housing counseling services to low- and moderate-income households in the District, including assistance in applying for a variety of DHCD assistance programs.

Neighborhood Initiatives Support Program (NISP) Equity Grant Fund: The NISP fund was created by the City Council to make grant funds available to the Community Development Neighborhood Development Assistance Program (NDAP). The program is designed to give these CDCs the ability to take a financial stake in strategic business and economic development projects in their service communities. Funds may be used for acquisition, equity, capital, and pre-development costs.

Special Grants Program: Flexible funding for non-profit/community organizations for nonbrick and mortar projects (vans for community groups, seed money for new public service activity, etc.).

Community Activities and Services Support Program: The program is constructed of several programs that support activities and services in the community, including the Relocation Payments and Assistance Program, Fair Housing Program, Special Disability Services Program, Community Development Planning Contracts and Program Development Studies, and Public Service Activities Small Grants Program.

1. Relocation Payments and Assistance Program: Provides relocation services to all residents and businesses that are forced to relocate as a result of public actions such as community development, public works and highway programs, code enforcement, condominium and cooperative conversions, and special projects.
2. Fair Housing Program: Funds the study of fair housing and promotes fair housing activities.
3. Special Disability Services: Provides special services for disabled persons, including housing locator and referral assistance and a furniture storage program that provides for the pick-up and temporary storage of furniture for low- and moderate-income disabled persons forced to move from privately owned housing.
4. Community Development Planning Contracts and Program Development Studies: Provides technical consultant services, including land use planning, project feasibility studies, and environmental studies. Administrative funds may also be made available for planning and development of innovative projects and techniques to meet housing and community development needs and objectives.
5. Public Service Activities Small Grants Program: Provides small grants ($50,000) to support public service activities in the community.

The Emergency Shelter Grant (ESG) funds will be awarded to a sub-grantee to provide services and facilities within the Continuum of Care for homeless persons as defined in the "Strategic Plan for Homeless Continuum of Care Services in the District of Columbia: 2000-2004". This strategic plan for the homeless was developed jointly by the D. C. Department of Human Services and The Community Partnership for the Prevention of Homelessness. Services and facilities will include prevention, outreach done in connection with established drop-in centers, renovation work at shelter sites and the provision of hypothermia hotline services during the hypothermia season of 2000-2001.

1. Prevention/Emergency Assistance Grants for Families: In partnership With the Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA) Board, The Community Partnership will make emergency homeless prevention grants available for families. The funds will be used to prevent the imminent eviction of families from their residences in accordance with the Emergency Shelter Grant regulations regarding prevention funds.
2. Special Homeless Outreach and Hypothermia Hotline: Grants are made to pay the cost of outreach staff that work with established outreach agencies and drop-in centers. These grants allow additional homeless persons on the street to benefit from outreach services. The Hypothermia Hotline is a 24-hour service that begins anew each winter (on November 1) and extends through the hypothermia season (through March 31). Vans equipped with two-way radios are dispatched throughout the city on regular routes and in response to calls to the Hypothermia Hotline. Homeless persons desiring shelter are transported to available beds. Those persons resistant to shelter are provided food, hot drinks, and blankets and they are monitored throughout the night.
3. Rehabilitation and Renovation: The Community Partnership is using rehabilitation funds to expand emergency shelter capacity for women by opening a 10-bed addition to Calvary Women's Shelter. In addition, funds are being used for essential repairs at other adult and family shelters.

The District has adopted a strategy to stimulate employment and business opportunities for residents as part of its effort to create and maintain healthy and viable neighborhoods. An important vehicle for achieving this strategy is to build the local, neighborhood community development corporations' capacity to stimulate economic development activity in their respective service areas. The city's focus will be on improving its existing economic development programs and negotiating with private lenders for targeted, creative financing of economic development in key geographic and marketing areas where public funds can effectively leverage private financing. The District will also focus on encouraging private lenders to provide financing opportunities under the Community Reinvestment Act and monitor compliance.

The District will enhance its efforts to retain businesses in and attract businesses to the city, including special attention to tax and regulatory provisions, which adversely impact their operation in the District. Targeted District-owned sites will be identified for marketing and development, thereby, providing visible "anchors" for economic revitalization and neighborhood stabilization. Also of prime importance is the creation of small and minorityowned businesses in under-served markets in the city, including monitoring and enforcing local contracting and employment goals for District firms and residents.

1. Economic Development Program (Section 109 Loan Repayment§): This program provides financial and technical assistance to new and existing businesses in economically depressed areas on a city-wide basis.
2. Urban Renewal and Community Development Property Management: DHCD provides property management services, rent collection, and limited maintenance for properties owned by the Department and the D. C. Redevelopment Land Agency (RLA). These properties were acquired under the old urban renewal program or as part of the community development program and are pending disposition.
3. Community Development Planning Contracts and Program Development Studies

Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds may be used to pay reasonable program administration costs and carrying charges related to the planning and execution of community development activities assisted in whole or in part with funds provided under the CDBG or HOME programs.

Program administration costs includes staff and related expenditures required for overall program management, coordination, monitoring, reporting, and evaluation. Overall activities eligible under this category include:

• Citizen participation costs;
• Fair housing activities;
• Indirect costs charged using an accepted cost allocation plan;
• Development of submissions or applications for Federal program; and
• Certain costs of administering the HOME program or a federally designated Empowerment Zone or Enterprise Community.

Following are the proposed budgets for the four federal entitlement grant programs included in the FY 2001 Consolidated Plan.

a. Homebuyer Assistance and Housing Recycling and Preservation

b. Affordable Housing Production

c. Community Organization Support

d. Economic and Commercial Development

Homeless Support and Prevention

The District of Columbia's FY 1996 - 2001 Consolidated Plan articulated the city's strategy to increase home ownership. Home ownership lends stability to communities, encourages families to remain District of Columbia residents and increases the city's tax base. During the five-year period covered by the Consolidated Plan, the city proposed to focus its efforts on:

• targeting ownership assistance as part of neighborhood improvement and stabilization activities;
• improving the effectiveness of existing ownership programs by increased private sector participation and leveraging of public funds with private resources;
• expanding the repair of vacant housing for ownership; and
• assisting occupants of subsidized rental housing to become homeowners.

During FY 2001, the city assisted in the creation of 460 first-time homeowners. (See Table 3) A total of $3.0 million was expended from the CDBG and HOME programs, supplemented by the expenditure of $1.9 million in local appropriated funds for home ownership activities. Private sector dollars approximating $45 million were leveraged against the federal and local funds- a public:private ratio of 8:1.

The 2001 - 2005 Consolidated Plan indicated that the District's aging housing stock is deteriorating and requires preservation as part of the city's overall effort to maintain healthy and viable neighborhoods. The preservation of rental housing is an important component of this endeavor. This is especially valid in consideration of the age of the city's occupied housing units. More than 70 percent of occupied housing units were built in or prior to 1959. In addition, the majority (59 percent) of the city's occupied housing units are rental. The District has adopted a strategy for rental housing which includes:

• preserving and rehabilitating the affordable housing supply;
• expediting renovation of public housing, including the sale and renovation of vacant scattered site public housing units;
• continuing tenant assistance to low-income households; and,
• targeting neighborhood improvement efforts in areas of opportunity to achieve an overall visible impact on neighborhood conditions and livability.

The city assisted in the rehabilitation of 395 rental and single-family (owner-occupied) housing units during FY 2001. Supplemented by private sector financing of approximately $29.48 million, a total of $3.386 million was expended from the CDBG and HOME programs--a public:private ratio of 1:8.7.

During FY 2001, the District of Columbia's tax base finally began to reverse its downward trend that was created by the loss of many middle-income families and profitable businesses during the 1990s. While there is increased interest, by both residents and businesses, in locating in the city, the amount of taxable real estate continues to remain small given the large amount of non-taxable land devoted to governmental, embassy and non-profit uses. Additionally, the demand for social services is still high given the number of underemployed/ unemployed persons (including welfare-to-work residents still unemployed), and the homeless.

The District of Columbia continues its strategy for community development efforts focused on creating jobs and business opportunities for District residents. Creating better paying jobs has several benefits, including a stronger tax base, more stable neighborhoods and increased income for residents to afford escalating housing costs. An important vehicle for achieving our goals is to build the capacity of neighborhood community development corporations to stimulate economic development activity. The city's strategy includes:

• assisting community based development organizations to increase their capacity to stimulate economic development;
• expanding community development areas to include zones of economic development opportunities;
• marketing and developing District-owned sites which will provide key, visible anchors for economic revitalization and neighborhood stabilization; and
• implementing Enterprise Community Initiatives.

The focus of most of the city's federal assistance under this initiative, however, is in its efforts to increase the construction of affordable rental and sales housing units. DHCD's strategy to achieve this objective includes:

• acquiring and disposing of property through sale or lease (including air rights) for development;
• financing predevelopment costs and expenses for marketing agency-owned sites;
• assisting in the production of low and moderate or mixed income rental housing units financed privately or in conjunction with the DC Housing Finance Agency;
• other activities to eliminate slum and blight.

During FY 2001, the city assisted in the construction of 1,751 home ownership and rental housing units. A total of $10.766 million in federal funds were expended, leveraging $240.191 million in private funds (a public:private ratio of 1:22.3). Tables 6a and 6b indicate the activities achieved in FY 2001 for the community development and support service initiatives.

In the FY 2001 - 2005 Consolidated Plan, the District proposed a strategy to address the needs of its dependent populations, including the homeless and other special need populations (e.g., the frail elderly, chronically mentally ill, drug and alcohol abusers, and HIV infected). This strategy began with the D.C. Initiative, a special partnership with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), to address the needs of homeless persons and families by moving beyond an emergency shelter system to create a comprehensive "Continuum of Care." Since March 1999 when the D.C. Initiative ended, having more than exceeded all its performance targets, and after an extensive and broadbased post-D.C. Initiative strategic planning process, the Department of Human Services decided to continue the Continuum of Care strategy through a 5-year grant to The Community Partnership.

The focus of the homeless Continuum of Care initiative is on the production of housing. Many of the support services assist the homeless and special need populations, and thus, the strategies outlined in these sections should be considered together. The District's homeless and special need housing production effort focused on:

• Continuing the development of the D.C. Initiative for the Homeless under the public-private partnership created under the leadership of The Community Partnership;
• Providing transitional housing for persons with special needs such as mental health, substance abuse and medical treatment for HIV or other health problems. The Community Partnership plans to expand transitional and permanent housing resources over a multi-year period;
• Support to develop permanent housing opportunities as a means of current homeless or institutional systems including development and expansion of single room occupancy (SRO) housing;
• Improving the coordination of the many public and private sources of financing for special needs housing to create more effective and efficient development of housing resources
• Continuing the cooperative efforts between the District of Columbia Government Agency for HIV/AIDS and the D.C. Care Consortium to implement an innovative housing, coordination and referral service to expand available housing options for individuals and families living with HIV/AIDS; and
• Integrating special needs populations into neighborhoods on a citywide basis (e.g., persons with disabilities and homeless populations). This should include the development of multi-unit buildings for SRO and transitional family housing for the homeless and other special needs populations.

Special housing support services fall into two distinct groupings:

• Support services which provide the city's lower income population access to the full spectrum of housing choices in the District (e.g. home ownership and credit counseling, fair lending and housing enforcement, technical assistance programs for existing or prospective homeowners); and,
• Support services that assist the city's homeless and special need population by providing intensive social, health and financial support services necessary to allow these families and individuals to live in various types of housing in the community.

The city proposed a strategy to provide special housing support services, which allows its low- and moderate-income population access to greater housing choices. This will involve overcoming numerous obstacles to housing choices experienced by lower-income households, especially Afro-American and Latino households. The obstacles include:

• Lending discrimination through redlining of lower income neighborhoods and/or discriminatory loan approval practices;
• Discrimination in acceptance of applications for rental housing;
• Poor credit history and family budgeting practices frequently encountered in lower income households; and,
• Lack of experience by occupants of rental housing in the complexities of becoming a first-time homebuyer.

The District of Columbia focused on the following to overcome the above noted obstacles:

• Supporting community-based groups to provide comprehensive housing counseling services to lower income households;
• Providing technical services to support first-time homebuyers; homesteaders for the purchase and rehabilitate their homes; and tenant groups for the purchase, renovation and conversion of their apartment building into condos/coops;
• Encouraging the development of new financing mechanisms and public-private partnerships to expand private lending opportunities for District housing and community development programs; and,
• Comprehensive homeless and special need population support programs in areas such as mental health, substance abuse, medical treatment, employment training and emergency financial assistance.

Table 6 indicates the activities achieved in FY 2001 for the Special Housing Support Service initiative.

DHCD conducted a Request for Proposals (RFP) to utilize CDBG funds for the production of 20 special needs housing for homeless families. Two programs were funded: 1) a 7-unit transitional housing program operated by Bethany, Inc.; and 2) a 13-unit family transitional program called "Partner Arms II"to be operated by the Transitional Housing Corporation. In addition, DHCD used remaining ESG98 funds to assist the Open Arms Housing organization in renovating a building that is being developed as 20 units of permanent housing for mentally ill women.

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The District adopted a strategy to create job and business opportunities for District residents as part of its effort to create and maintain healthy and viable neighborhoods. This has several benefits, including a stronger tax base, more stable neighborhoods and more income to afford increasing housing costs. An important vehicle for achieving this strategy was to build the local neighborhood community development corporations' capacity to stimulate economic development activity in their respective service areas.

Part II provides an assessment of the District's five-year goals and objectives. The District established the following five priorities during FY 1996 through 2001:

• Homebuyer Assistance and Housing Recycling Initiative
• Affordable Housing Production Initiative
• Community Organization Support Initiative
• Economic and Commercial Development Initiative Georgia Avenue Neighborhood Revitalization Strategy Area Initiative
• Carver Terrace/Langston/Ivy City/Trinidad Neighborhood Revitalization Strategy Areas Initiative (?)

The following narratives demonstrate the activities undertaken during FY 2001 to address the objectives and areas of high priority as identified in the Five Year Strategic Plan section of the 2001 - 2005 Consolidated Plan.

In the FY 2001 Action Plan, DHCD projected the creation of 433 home ownership units. During FY 2001, 460 home ownership units were created through several home ownership programs. The city committed $3.4 million in federal funds and $1 million in local appropriated funds for a total of $4.4 million toward its home ownership initiative. These federal and local funds leveraged $45 million in private funds. HPAP is by far DHCD's most popular program, generating 460 first-time homebuyers in FY 2001. The city expended $3.0 million in CDBG and HOME funds, as well as $1 million in local appropriated funds, leveraging $45 million in private mortgages.

The Homestead Housing Preservation Program is being re-engineered to reduce the timeframe between winning the property to the actual move-in date. The program continues to assist previous lottery winners in realizing their dream of home ownership. Table 8 illustrates DHCD's home ownership activities in FY 2001.

It is the District's strategy to preserve its aging housing stock as part of an overall effort to maintain healthy and viable neighborhoods. DHCD achieves this objective by means of the Single Family Rehabilitation Program (SFRP).

The SFRP is the vehicle used to preserve the aging housing stock of existing homeowners in the District. The program includes single family loans to District residents to ensure D.C. housing code compliance, the Senior Citizens Home Repair and Improvement Program, and funding to individuals requiring handicapped accessibility improvements to their homes. Through the various single family housing rehabilitation programs, homes can be renovated and remain occupied instead of becoming boarded and vacant. With the rehabilitation and continued occupancy of single-family homes in the District, neighborhoods can remain or become healthy and stable. During FY 2001, ten (10) loans were completed under the SFRP.

DHCD utilized the Construction Assistance Program, the Housing Production Trust Fund, and the MultiFamily Housing Rehabilitation Program to increase the amount of affordable housing in the District through new units and the rehabilitation of multi-family housing properties.

During FY 2001, DHCD provided $3,386,174 in federal financial assistance for the rehabilitation of 5 multi-family developments, totaling 395 units and leveraging $29,480,510 in other funds.

Table 9 identifies the multi-family rehabilitation developments underway and/or completed in FY 2001.

DHCD provides financial assistance to CDCs and other nonprofit housing providers, as well as to private developers, for pre-development activities and construction of affordable rental and sales units. In FY 2001, DHCD awarded $10.766 million in funds to assist in the construction or renovation of 1,751 home ownership and rental housing units, leveraging $240.191 million in private funds. Table 10 identifies projects settled and construction underway this fiscal year. The commencement of construction of these units assisted the District in meeting its strategy of creating and maintaining stable neighborhoods.

"Supported by Neighborhood Development Assistance Program

The Emergency Shelter Grant (ESG) program supports the District's homeless Continuum of Care and the relevant objectives of the Consolidated Plan. ESG funds are provided via a subgrant agreement to the Community Partnership for the Prevention of Homelessness. The District of Columbia's Continuum of Care concept, mission, and ongoing planning process are discussed in detail in Appendix 3. In FY 2001, the ESG funded the following activities.

In partnership with the D.C. Emergency Assistance Fund (DC/EAF) - a public/private prevention effort initiated and led by the business community, including MCI Center owner Abe Pollin, and by Mayor Anthony Williams, the Community Foundation, and the local FEMA Board - the Partnership committed to make ESG emergency homeless prevention grants available for approximately 90 families (an average of $1500 assistance each) and 188 adults (an average of $600 each). This effort joins the ESG funds with private contributions and District funds, thus leveraging another $750,000 as part of the total goal of $1 million annually for prevention of homelessness. DC/EAF became fully operational in 2001. ESG funds are being used to prevent the imminent eviction of families and adults from their residences, coupled with 90-day follow-up case management services from the agencies disbursing the grants, in accordance with ESG regulations regarding prevention funds.

Grants were made for the cost of outreach staff that work in the following 6 outreach centers. These grants provided outreach services to more than 700 homeless persons:

In addition, a grant of $117,800 went toward the Shelter Hotline Services, a 24-hour, yearround outreach service, provided by the United Planning Organization. Vans equipped with twoway radios are dispatched on regular routes throughout the city and in response to calls to the Shelter Hotline. Homeless persons desiring shelter are transported to available beds. Those resistant to shelter are supplied with food, hot drinks and blankets, and are monitored throughout the night in cold weather.

These funds were used to rehabilitate one building at 317 H Street, NW, that will provide 10 beds of 24-hour emergency shelter for women.

Funds covered a portion of administrative costs ($20,675) for The Community Partnership's staff involved in the ESG program, and fiscal monitoring of ESG-funded activities. DHCD retained $20,675 of the grant for its monitoring and administration of the ESG program.

The Department of Mental Health, working with nonprofit partners Cornerstone, Inc., and Four Walls Development Corporation, provides assistance to nonprofit groups to acquire and develop housing for chronically mentally ill persons. Assistance is often provided in combination with DHCD's HoFEDD program and federal McKinney Act assistance.

The Community Partnership is the lead agency for all homeless-related services in the District of Columbia. Emergency Shelter Grant funds come to The Community Partnership and are made as grants to other organizations for the purposes stated herein. Funds for administration cover the cost of staff involved in program and fiscal monitoring of the Emergency Shelter Grant funded activities and facilities.

The District's community development efforts focused on:

1. Improving the operation of the existing economic development programs within the District.
2. Marketing and developing District-owned sites to provide key, visible "anchors" for economic revitalization and neighborhood stabilization.
3. Expanding community development areas.
4. Assisting neighborhood-based community development corporations to increase their capacity to stimulate economic development.
5. Monitoring and encouraging Community Reinvestment Act financing opportunities by private lenders.
6. Stimulating the creation of small and minority-owned businesses to provide goods and/or services to under-served markets in the city.
7. Enhancing efforts to retain and attract private sector firms in the city.

The city proposed to address economic development focussed along the almost 5-mile corridor by approaching it as a single linear neighborhood. The Georgia Avenue Corridor has a distinct identify because it is one of the major north-to-south transportation routes connecting Maryland to downtown D.C. The targeted area includes the 39 census blocks that abut Georgia Avenue from Florida Avenue, N.W., to Eastern Avenue, N.W. Portions of the lower end of the strategy area already qualified as an NRSA because of their Federal designations as Enterprise Communities.

The NRSA development strategies include job creation, housing development, employment and entrepreneurial training and infrastructure development. Comprehensive sets of projects and programs have been identified around these four areas to serve as the core tools for revitalizing the Corridor.

Business Assistance — Two community development corporations (CDCs) were funded for providing, services in the Georgia Avenue NRSA during Fiscal Year 2001. Funding was provided through the Neighborhood Development Assistance Program (NDAP) to the long established Peoples Involvement Corporation (PIC) whose service area includes the Georgia Avenue Corridor. The Gateway Georgia Avenue Revitalization Corporation (GGARC) was funded as an emerging CDC with a special focus on the upper end of Georgia Avenue at the gateway into the city.

Working in conjunction with both CDCs, the District of Columbia Chamber of Commerce opened the Georgia Avenue Business Access Center at 7408 Georgia Avenue in August 2001. The Center received $95,000 in Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds through PIC to cover operational and business services expenses.

Among its many services, the Center provides access to the Small Business Administration programs, business mentoring, and technical assistance from area universities and their School of Business students.

Employment — In response to a Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA), New Solid Rock Community Outreach Program applied for a $45,000 public service grant to provide employment training and other community services from its NRSA location at 8th and Upshur Streets, N.W.

PIC identified thirteen new businesses, which were established along the Georgia Avenue corridor. Similar successes were reported in the gateway area of the NRSA where longstanding, vacant, retail space was fully rented to new businesses for the first time since its construction was completed.

Commercial Facades — DHCD originally planned to assist in the improvement of 40 commercial facades within the NRSA. As the momentum grew for the revitalization of Georgia Avenue, the number of properties to be improved has been increased to 111, with a planned investment of $1,327,320 in targeted blocks in lower and upper Georgia Avenue. The Office of Planning and DHCD are in the process of implementing the façade improvements in three areas on the Avenue.

Streetscape Improvements — Three commercial areas located in the lower, middle and gateway areas of Georgia Avenue were targeted for public space infrastructure improvements totaling $1.4 million in public funds. Improvements to the locations include the addition of new globe light fixtures, banner bars, street trees, and sidewalk replacement. Installations in the gateway area are substantially complete, and construction bids have been received for the lower locations. The scope of work was expanded for the lower locations to include underground wiring for streetlights and traffic lights.

Parks and Recreation Improvements — The Banneker Ball Field in lower Georgia Avenue was funded and comprehensively replaced during FY 2001. Improvements included new fencing, tracks and ball field, along with an irrigation system. Public funding was made available to the Department of Parks and Recreation for upgrading the public park at the intersection of Georgia Avenue and Upshur Street, N.W. Improvements in this park were completed during FY 2001.

DHCD applied to HUD for the designation of the Carver/Langston Terrace/Ivy City-Trinidad (CLTICT) communities as a Neighborhood Revitalization Strategy Area (NRSA) in August 2000. The application was approved in October 2000. The CLTICT NRSA includes five census tracts defined by New York Avenue, Florida Avenue and Bladensburg Road, and includes Galludet University, the Farmers Market, as well as major residential and light industrial developments. There are 13,799 residents in about 5,780 households living within the 5 census tracts. Of these residents, 94 percent are African-American, 4 percent are white, and one percent are Hispanic (black and white). The area's median household income is $26,116 with 23 percent of households having incomes below the poverty level.

The NRSA development strategy includes job creation, housing development, employment and entrepreneurial training, and infrastructure development. A comprehensive set of projects and programs has been developed around these four areas to serve as the core tools for revitalizing the neighborhood.

The performance measures for job creation are to create 25 new jobs each year and start 3 new businesses each year. Jobs created will help break the cycle of poverty, teach new skills and give residents to buy and maintain their homes.

The performance measures for housing and community facilities development over the NRSA period are creation of affordable/mixed-income housing units for 600 families; construction of one 80 slot day care center; construction of one birthing and well-care center for low income residents; and development of three computer learning centers. To date, DHCD has initiated a public-private partnership agreement with HomeFree USA and Chevy Chase Bank to rehabilitate single family and multi-family units in the TrinidadIvy City neighborhood. The goals of the HomeFree USA/Chevy Chase Bank agreement are to rehabilitate 150 single-family homes, acquire/rehabilitate 25 vacant properties and rehabilitate 3-5 multi-family buildings of six units or less each. This HomeFree project will serve as a prototype for future neighborhood focused single and multi-family housing rehabilitation projects. HomeFree is currently proceeding with the rehabilitation of 30 single family houses and 3 vacant multi-unit buildings. The construction of the DC Developing Families Center (birthing center) has been completed and the Center is now operating. The Center created 41 new permanent jobs. The Carver Terrace Health and Child Development Center is currently under construction and will create 14 permanent jobs from the operation of an 80 slot day care center and a health center serving 500 neighborhood residents.

Employment and entrepreneurial training performance measures include training 50 youth entrepreneurs, training 100 community residents in housing construction and lead/asbestos abatement trades. These or similar measures will be achieved through DHCD negotiations and discussions with community development corporations and community stakeholder organizations to establish a mechanism that will achieve the employment and entrepreneurial performance measures.

Infrastructure improvements performance measures include renovating two community parks in the next three years; planting a 1,000 street trees to replace missing or dead existing trees; renovating roadways at New York Avenue, Montana Avenue and other streets in the NRSA Area. The major infrastructure improvement that will have the most direct positive impact on improving transportation and pedestrian access to the NRSA Area is the construction of the New York Avenue Metro Station that has just begun at the western edge of the Area.

Implementation of the NRSA development strategy relies on both the public and private sectors to help the neighborhood to redevelop and create new jobs, housing and amenities for the residents.

The D.C. Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) entered projects in HUD's Integrated Disbursement and Information System (IDIS) during FY 2001. The projects and amounts listed below were entered in IDIS committing FY 2001 HOME program funds by the September 30, 2001 deadline.

The projects cited above utilized HOME program funds for property acquisition, new housing construction, and housing rehabilitation activities. In addition, the DHCD Home Purchase Assistance Program (HPAP) provided HOME assistance totaling $395,875. (See Table 9a.)

The HOME Program allocation for the District of Columbia's FY 2001 Action Plan is detailed as follows:

HOME funding for the city's FY 2001 program year was not subject to the matching fund requirements of the HOME Program. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development advised the city that it had met HUD's fiscal distress criteria, and thus, had reduced its match requirement by 100% for FY 2001.

The District of Columbia's FY 1996 - 2001 Consolidated Plan detailed the dramatic changes and shifts in the city's population, and housing and community development needs. The changing demographics and economic conditions have significantly impacted the quality of life of District residents. In the five-year Strategy section of the HUD-approved Consolidated Plan, the need was stressed to guide the city to a new direction to assist in reversing the migration of the city's middle class to the suburbs.

Specific priorities for the 2001 through 2005 period include the promotion of home ownership and rental housing opportunities and the maintenance of the supply of affordable rental housing and affordable housing for members of the special needs community. During FY 2001, $1.95 million of federal HOME funding was made available to assist in the development of 190 units of affordable rental housing in the Savannah Ridge Apartment Development. The total Savannah Ridge development cost is $5,745,286. Construction is nearly completed at the 17-unit Rittenhouse Condominiums Project. DHCD is providing $975,000 in federal HOME funds of the total $2.75 million development cost.

The DHCD has ensured affirmative marketing actions of all HOME funded housing activities containing five units or more, in accordance with 24 CFR 92.351. Following is the city's method for ensuring regulatory compliance:

1. Application packages for HOME program funded activities contain information for owners, the general public and tenants that specifically explain fair housing requirements. Owners are informed that they must make good faith efforts to provide information and otherwise attract eligible persons from all racial, ethnic, and gender groups in the District to occupy the available housing units. The Equal Housing Opportunity slogan is used in press releases and on information soliciting owner participation.

DHCD requires owners of HOME-assisted activities to adhere to the following practices in order to carry out the District's affirmative marketing procedures:

• Use the Equal Housing Opportunity logo/slogan or statement in any advertising or solicitation for tenants.
• Display fair housing posters wherever applicants are accepted.
• Inform and solicit applications for vacant units for persons in the housing market who are most likely to apply for rehabilitated housing without special outreach.
• Inform community agencies of the availability of units in order to reach the Hispanic community.
• Accept referrals from the D.C. Housing Authority.
• Use information supplied regarding apartment buildings occupied by community organizations and churches whose members are non-minority and are located in the various neighborhoods in which the program operates.

2. Through the HOME funding agreement, requirements and practices to which each owner must adhere in carrying out the HOME affirmative marketing procedures and requirements are delineated. DHCD provides internal support to the owners through its network of community organizations, churches, employment centers, fair housing groups and housing counseling agencies. In addition, commercial media, community contacts, equal opportunity logo and slogan and the display of the fair housing poster are used in requiring each owner to adhere to affirmative marketing procedures.

3. DHCD maintains a record of the frequency and type of information sent to community organizations with which it maintains contact. A record of the applicants responding and actual tenants accepted as a result of DHCD's outreach efforts is maintained for monitoring and assessment purposes. The District will meet the racial, ethnic and gender characteristic record keeping requirements as contained in Section 92.351 concerning tenancy before and after rehabilitation, and relocation data for displaced households.

4. DHCD will assess the affirmative marketing effort of owners by means of an agreement with the owner that shall be applicable for a period of 15 years (or other appropriate time period as determined by HUD requirements) beginning on the date on which all units in the project are completed. The assessment will be in the form of a determination of whether or not the owner has followed the criteria established for affirmative marketing efforts.

In implementation of the affirmative marketing requirements, the District will comply with the laws and authorities referenced in 24 CFR 92.350 to assure nondiscrimination and equal opportunity in the use of its HOME funds.

Further, the District will comply with the requirements of the Fair Housing Act, 42 U.S.C. 3601-20, and implementing regulations at 24 CFR 100, Executive Order 11063, as amended by Executive Order 12259 (Equal Opportunity in Housing) and implementing regulations at 24 CFR 107; Title VI of the Civil Rights Acts of 1964, 42 U.S.C. 200d and implementing regulations at 24 CFR 1; the prohibitions against discrimination on the basis of age under the Age Discrimination Act of 1975; 42 U.S.C. 6101-07 and implementing regulations at 24 CFR 146; and the prohibition against discrimination on the basis of handicap under section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (29 U.S.C. 794) and implementing regulations at 24 CFR Part 8; which provide that no person in the United States shall on the grounds of race, color, national origin, age or handicap be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be otherwise subjected to discrimination under any program or activity for which the applicant received Federal financial assistance and will take the measures necessary of effectuate this assurance. This assurance shall obligate the property owner, or in the case of any transfer of such property, and transferee, for the period during which the real property or structure is used for the purpose for which the HOME grant funds were expended.

The HOME Program will comply with Executive Order 11246 and the implementing regulations at 41 CFR Chapter 60, which provide that, "no persons shall be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin in all phases of employment during the performance of Federal or federally-assisted construction contract"; and with the requirements of Section 3 of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968; 12 U.S.C. 1701 a (Employment Opportunities for Businesses and Lower Income Persons in Connection with Assisted Projects).

The District ensures that property owners certify that contractors and subcontractors will take affirmative action to ensure fair treatment in employment, upgrading, demotion, transfer, recruitment or recruitment advertising, layoff or termination, rates of pay or other forms of compensation, and selection for training and apprenticeship; and to the greatest extent possible, will assure that opportunities for training, employment and contracts in connection with HOME assisted projects be given to lower-income residents and businesses in the project area.

The District affirmatively furthers fair housing in its HOME Program in accordance with the certification made with its Consolidated Plan pursuant to the actions described at 24 CFR 91.225.

The application materials for HOME Program funding include Affirmative Action Plan requirements. The Affirmative Action Plan requirements establish goals for minority participation in construction jobs provided and for the contractors and subcontractors hired for projects.

Public Hearings were held in various sector of the city to afford residents the opportunity to comment on the Department's performance. Below is a summary of those hearings.

Summary of Oral and Written Public Hearing Testimony
"Housing and Community Development Needs in the District of Columbia"
Hine Junior High School
335 8th Street, S.E.
Washington, D.C.
Monday, October 16, 2000

In addition to these public hearings, copies of the Draft FY 2001 CAPER were available from November 19, 2001 through December 3, 2001, for public review, as mandated by HUD. A Notice of Availability of the document was published in newspapers and copies were distributed to public libraries and other stakeholders.

During FY 2001 (October 1, 2001 through September 30, 2001), DHCD continued to provide fair housing education and outreach to its constituents through the Fair Housing Program Coordinator (bilingual), who was employed during the fiscal year. The program coordinator is charged with updating the agency's fair housing policies and procedures, ensuring its programs are carried out in accordance with the CDBG fair housing regulations, and ensuring fair housing education and outreach activities are realized.

Throughout the year, DHCD has conducted fair housing outreach activities to its subrecipients-communitybased organizations (CBOs) and community development corporations (CDCs)--as well as organizations servicing the immigrant communities, e.g., Hispanic, Chinese, Vietnamese and Ethiopian populations. DHCD continues to involve its stakeholders in the agency's mission to increase and provide affordable housing.

In addition, DHCD has worked with the American Association for Retired Persons (AARP) to bring greater awareness of predatory lending issues to the District's elderly community. Predatory lenders have a long history of targeting elderly African-American homeowners who have substantial equity in their homes, are on fixed incomes, and often are in need of additional monies for home improvement, medical or daily living expenses.

Finally, to bolster its fair housing education and outreach efforts, DHCD submitted a Fair Housing Initiative Program - Education and Outreach Initiative (FHIP-EOI) proposal to HUD in order to provide fair housing education and outreach to the Hispanic and Vietnamese communities. DHCD is awaiting a response to the FY 2001 funding application.

In the upcoming year, DHCD will continue to expand its fair housing outreach activities and ensure equal opportunity in housing for District residents in the delivery of its programs.

The District of Columbia, Department of Health, HIV/AIDS Administration (HAA) is the Housing Opportunities for Persons With AIDS (HOPWA) Formula Grantee for the Washington, DC Eligible Metropolitan Statistical Area (EMSA).

The purpose of HAA is to prevent the spread of HIV transmission and to ensure the management, oversight, planning, and coordination of HIV/AIDS services and programs in the District of Columbia, in collaboration with other government and community organizations. HAA also administers the Ryan White Title I Program for the DC EMSA, the District's Ryan White Title II, AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP), and Centers for Disease Control (CDC) funding for HIV/AIDS prevention and surveillance activities.

In addition to serving as the DC EMSA fegional grantee, HAA is also the local administrative agency for the HOPWA program in the District of Columbia. In suburban Maryland, the Prince George's County Government, Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) is the administrative agency with oversight of activities in Calvert, Charles, Frederick, Montgomery, and Prince George's counties. The Northern Virginia Regional Commission (NVRC) is the administrative agency for suburban Virginia with oversight of activities in the counties of Arlington, Clarke, Culpeper, Fairfax, Fauquier, King George, Loudoun, Prince William, Spotsylvania, Stafford, and Warren. NVRC's responsibility also includes the cities of Alexandria, Culpeper, Fairfax, Falls Church, Fredericksburg, Manassas and Manassas Park. In suburban West Virginia, the administrative agency is the AIDS Network of the Tri-State Area (ANTS) a non-profit community-based organization with responsibility for the counties of Berkeley and Jefferson.

In the District of Columbia, HOPWA funds were used to provide housing assistance for 725 individuals and families, supportive services to 719 individuals and families, and housing information and referral services to 887 individuals during the period of October 1, 2000 September 30, 2001. {Data for suburban jurisdictions will be included in the final report}

In addition to the housing assistance provided to eligible clients throughout the EMSA, the HAA Housing Program provided enhanced management and oversight of the HOPWA program. HAA held a HOPWA Regional Jurisdictional Grantees Meeting. This meeting was the first annual strategic HOPWA grantee meeting. HAA staff reiterated HOPWA regulations and received input from the suburban administrative agencies about the implementation of HOPWA.

On several occasions during the reporting period, the HOPWA EMSA jurisdictional grantees met to develop a strategic spending plan. The spending plan was developed to ensure that the EMSA is prepared to spend each annual HOPWA award upon receipt. The final multiyear spending plan will be submitted to HUD by November 10, 2001.

In the District of Columbia, the HIV/AIDS Administration released an RFA to compete the gatekeeper demonstration project. The competitive RFA will transition the gatekeeper activity from a demonstration project to a multi-year program. The selection and award for the permanent gatekeeper provider will be completed in the first quarter of FY 2002.

In Northern Virginia, the Northern Virginia Regional Commission (NVRC) began the development of a comprehensive HIV/AIDS housing needs assessment. NVRC has contracted with AIDS Housing of Washington from Seattle, the HUD national technical assistance agency, to assist in the needs assessment development.

In the District of Columbia, HOPWA funds were used to provide housing assistance for 725 individuals and families, supportive services to 719 individuals and families, housing information and referral services to 887 individuals for the period of October 1, 2000 September 30, 2001. {Suburban jurisdiction data will be included in the final report}

During the period of October 1, 1999 - September 30, 2000 programs utilized HOPWA Yr. 7 and Yr. 8 grant funds. However, the majority of funding used was from HOPWA FY1999 or Yr. 8. The following table compares original application targets to actual client totals.

*The operating cost activity is often performed by agencies with project-based budgets. Therefore, some clients served under the project-based rent activity may be counted again under the operation cost category.
**The remaining balance of HOPWA Yr.8 in the District will be obligated along with HOPWA Yr. 9 in the first quarter of FY 02.
***Suburban data will be included in the final report.

VI.3. IDIS Project and Activities
VI.3.a. HOPWA Accomplishment Screens
V1.3.b. Proposed and Actual Accomplishment (MA04)

Empowerment Zones / Enterprise Communities
Annual Report
District of Columbia Enterprise Community (2001)

The US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) designated the District of Columbia an Enterprise Community (EC) in 1994 and awarded a one-time $2.9 million grant. The strategic vision for change envisions providing communities with resources and training to help citizens achieve economic empowerment and financial independence in some of the most depressed neighborhood in the city. At the heart of empowerment is the building of a comprehensive approach to providing human, physical and economic development services to the residents of these distressed communities.

The EC (including the Enterprise Zone & Empowerment Zone designations) is comprised of three (3) noncontiguous areas, identified by geographic locations, and as such named Target Areas Groups. TAG 1 is located in the Northeast & Northwest areas, TAG 2 is located in the Marshall Heights area, and TAG 3 is located in the Southeast & Southwest areas. The Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) is the Government's agency with primary fiduciary and program monitoring responsibilities. Additionally, the DHCD provides staff assistance (i.e., program planning management, coordination, monitoring, and evaluation). In Fall 2000, the EC Governance Board and DHCD staff launched a EC marketing campaign, releasing a program brochure, and coordinating strategic planning meetings in the TAGS in an effort to promote community empowerment.

The District's EC program's goal is to build a comprehensive network of health, social, educational, cultural, and economic and workforce development services for disadvantaged citizens to achieve increased economic status. These services, in many instances, are aimed at the population that require pre-entry preparation for workforce development programs. The EC Governance Board, which is comprised mainly of community representatives, has focused its neighborhood projects within the EC areas on the following categories to obtain the security necessary for financial independence:

Employment, education and training opportunities;
Community collaborative that foster entrepreneurial opportunities for needed services (i.e., landscape and environmental preservation, property management and maintenance careers);
Counseling for single parents and families in need of specific assistance;
Public safety and reduction in crime;
Opportunities for residents, merchants and organizations to participate in housing and community development activities;
Delivery of social and health care services to disadvantaged residents; and Home ownership opportunities for low-to-moderate income residents.

Thirty-nine (39) EC grants for a total of $2.7 million were awarded in program year 1998. Currently, six active community service providers/ community based organizations provide needed services that support the goal of the program: The Fishing School, Children's Trust Neighborhood Initiative, R.I.S.E., Inc, Northeast Performing Arts Group, Catholic Charities, and New Mt. Olive Baptist Church.

The District's Enterprise Community Program's (ECP) strategic vision for change co-exists with the District's City Wide Strategic Plan generated from the Citizen's Summit goals. The Citizen's Summit convened in November 1999 at the District's Convention Center. As requested by the citizens, the following summit priorities & goals for the District's neighborhoods are; Building and Sustaining Healthy Neighborhoods, Strengthening Families, Investing in Children and Families, Making Government Work, Economic Development, and Unity of Purpose and Democratic Process. The above priorities complement the goals of ECP, and provide zone residents with future hope, continued resources, and training necessary to empower individuals and families.

During the reporting period of July 1, 2000 to June 30, 2001 the Government of the District of Columbia's Enterprise Community Program (ECP) Governance Board continued to build community based partnerships involving participants from all segments of the community. The ECP continues to developed working relationships with the following District based groups (i.e., political, local public health, non-profits) in an effort to meet the challenges of the EC goal to provide zone residents with the resources and training necessary to empower individuals and families for financial independence:

Community Partnership for the Prevention of Homelessness
Office of Grants Management and Development
Office of Finance and Treasury Revenue Bond Program
Department of Employment Services
Department of Public Schools
Department of Public Health
DC Funded Community Development Corporations/Community Based Organizations
District Citizens
US Department of Housing and Urban Development
US Department of Labor
US Department of Education

In addition, the ECP accomplished the following tasks during this reporting period (July 1, 2000 to June 30, 2001):

Beginning the process of closing out thirty-three (33) grant agreements with EC subgrantees;
Developed a working relationship with new HUD Community Builders and the Public Trust Officer,
Completed 85% of tasks associated to establish itself as a 501(c)(3) non-profit entity for the EC Governance Board;
Secured legal services through the DC Bar PSAC Pro Bono Project.
Participated in Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistance Secretary for Planning and Evaluation - Public Health Foundation's survey. The survey's results to be used by ASPE and PHF to develop a technical assistance clearinghouse and audioconferences to meet EZ/EC needs.
Extended Modification of Grant Agreement to September 30, 2001.
Executed 6 Modification Agreement for EC Program Subgrant Agreement for FY2001.
Change the 13 member governing board to 6.
Kept in communication with the Office of the Mayor on the land disposition of the Anacostia Gateway project.

Advancing the creation of new employment and business opportunities also promotes the inclusion and integration of social and economic development as an important component of a comprehensive community economic development plan.. The District offers a unique blend of employment opportunities resulting from the diverse cultures and markets located within the city. The growing cultural markets create opportunities within the public, private, and international sector that promote the formulation of new businesses and economic opportunities for residents. The adverse socio-economic factors, ranging from inadequate housing to illiteracy within the area have hindered residents' ability to prepare and respond to the job markets' new demands.

In order to access and succeed in the new and changing job markets, EC residents must have access to various forms of public and private assistance in education, job placement and family support. Providing basic education and transferable skills to the disadvantaged population will enable the District to build ,the capacity and stability of its youth and allow families to determine their own economic future.

The EC continued to work with the DC Office of Finance and Treasury Revenue Bond Program (DCRBP) which currently provides businesses (i.e., developers, businesses, trade associations, non-profit institutions and individuals) that meet the eligibility criteria, that relocate and/or expand their business within an EZ/EC zones with financing and investment incentives.

Mayor Anthony A. Williams administration has help attract to the District more than $3 billion of taxexempt investment capital for the benefit of over 100 local institutions and businesses, including cultural institutions, hospitals, universities, social service providers, small manufacturers, and other commercial enterprises. These projects simultaneously have contributed to the long-term fiscal viability of the District by fostering increased private infrastructure development, stimulating employment and contracting opportunities, and generating significant tax and fee revenues. Enterprise Zone business, Scientific and professional associations, cultural institution, K-12 schools, and social service organizations constitute a significant and growing share of programs' client base. Below represents DCRBP deals/economic development projects in the EZ Target Areas.

Since enactment of the Revitalization Act, the District has generated more than $60 million of EZ Bond proceeds for the construction or substantial rehabilitation of new for-profit business facilities, including the International Spy Museum, across the street from the FBI building, a new CVS Drug Store in Columbia Heights, a new headquarters building for Premium Distributors in Ward 5, and newlyremodeled business offices and retail space in the East End and Navy Yard.

Prospective FY 2001 projects include parking and retail facilities at 7th and E Street, NW, the proposed Kempton Hotel Project at the Old Patent Office, downtown business offices, and a K-Mart at the new shopping center in the Brentwood community.

FY Borrower Series Amount Borrowed
2000

*American Imrnigration Lawyers Assoc. Assoc 2000 $4,480,000 Acquis./Renov.
*819 7th Street, N.W., LLC Commercial 2000 $3,200,000 Acquis./Renov.
J.F.K. Center for the Performing Arts Cultural2000 $34,000,000 Renov./Constr.
Planned Parenthood Fed. of ArnericaHealthcare 2000 $7,500,000 Acquis./Renov.
G W. University Higher Education 2000 $303,785,000 Renov./Refin. s
American National Red Cross Association 2000 $93,500,000 New Construction
*Public Welfare Foundation Association 2000 $11,000,000 Acquis./Renov.
American Chemical Society Association 2000 $9,560,000 Refinancing
Institute for International Economics Assoc. 2000 $8,000,000 New Construction
*Ft Lincoln/Premium Distr., LLC Commercial 2000 $9,360,000 New Construction
National Geographic Society Association 2000 $24,270,000 Renov./Equip.
Smithsonian Institution Cultural 2000 $93,335,000 Acquis./Renov.

2001
World Wildlife Fund Association 2000 $42,830,000. Acquis./Renov.
*14th & Irving Ventures, LLC Commercial 2000 $2,800,000 Renov./Constr.
*HF Enterprises Commercial 2000 $4,800,000 Renovation
The Kingsbury Center, Inc. Education 2000 $7,310,000 Acquis./Renov.
St. Patrick's Episcopal Day School Education 2000 $11,000,000 Renov./Constr./Refin.
Natl Child Day Care Assoc, Inc. Association 2000 $5,300,000 Renov./Constr.
*Tigen Pepco Energy Services LLC Commercial 2000 $13,055,000 New Construction/Equip.
National Museum for Women in the Arts Cultural2001 $3,855,000 Refinancing
*SEED Public Charter School Education 2001 $8,105,000 Renov./New Construction
Georgetown University Higher Education 2001 $299,998,654 Renov./New Construction
MedStar Health, Inc. Healthcare 2001 $150,000,000 Acquis./Renov.
*The House on F St., LLC (Spy Museum) Commercial 2001 $15,000,000 Renov./New Construction
The George Washington University Higher Education 2001 $55,970,000 Renov/New Construction
The Henry J. Kaiser Foundation Association 2001 $42,000,000 Acquis./Constr.
Trinity College Higher Education 2001 $19,345,000 Renov./Refin./Constr.
The Field School, Inc. Education 2001 $21,000,000 Acquis./Renov./New Constr.
-National Public Radio Cultural 2001 $37,900,000 Refinancing

Pending
Commu Academy Public Charter School Edu 2001 Acquis./Renov.
*Hotel 1225, LLC (formerly F.B. Partnership) Commercial 2001 Acquis./Renov.
*800 8th St., LLC Commercial 2001 Acquis./Renov.
Hospital for Sick Children Healthcare 2001
*Camp Simms Commercial 2001 New Construction
Phillips Collection Cultural 2001 Acquis./Renov./New Constr.
*United Planning Organization Association 2001
*The Historical Society of Washi D.C. Assoc 2001
*Meridian Public Charter School Education 2001
Kmart Corporation Commercial
New Construction

TOTAL 2,855,888,654

The District of Columbia is one of the nation's most aggressive issuers of Enterprise Zone Facility (EZ) bonds. The District has closed 7 EZ bond deals valued at more than $61 million since the (January 1, 1998) date of its Enterprise Zone designation. The current project pipeline includes 7 transactions valued at $95 million.

CLOSED ENTERPRISE ZONE BOND TRANSACTIONS

Arnold & Porter (offices) $11,250,000
Amer. Immigration Lawyers Asso. (offices-retail) 4,480,000
819 7th Street, NW (offices-retail) 3,200,000
Premium Distributors (manufacturing) 10,000,000
HF Enterprises, L.L.C (office-retail) 4,800,000
Trigen-Pepco (convention center HVAC) 13,055,000
The House on F St., LLC (Spy Museum) 5,000,000
TOTAL $61,785,000

PIPELINE AND PROSPECTIVE EZ BOND TRANSACTIONS

BET Holdings (tech campus) 5,000,000
800 8th Street, NW (offices-restaurant) 9,600,000
Hotel 1225, LLC (hotel) 10,500,000
Kimpton (Tariff hotel) 15,000,000
Synapps (info tech facility) 15,000,000
I-Webb (info tech facility) 15,000,000
K-Mart (retail mall) 15,000,000
TOTAL $95,100,000

CLOSED ELEMENTARY-SECONDARY SCHOOL TRANSACTIONS

SEED Public Charter School $15,000,000
Gonzaga College High School 21,425,000
Maret School 9,000,000
The Lab School 5,000,000 -
Lowell School 6,000,000
Washington International School 11,000,000
Beavoir School 8,250,000
Owl School 2.390,000
St Patrick's Episcopal Day School 11,000,000
TOTAL 89,065,000

Capital Investment

During FY 2000, the Program helped to attract to the District more that $601 million of private capital for the benefit of 13 institutions and businesses. At the end of the first quarter of FY 2001, an additional $660 million of transactions were under review, indicating that total volume for the year is likely to exceed the record set in FY 1999.

FIGURE FY 1997 - FY 2000 NEW CONSTRUCTION/RENOVATION VS REFINANCING

FY 2001 PROGRAM GOALS AND PRIORITIES

The Revenue Bond-Enterprise Zone Program will build upon its recent successes by implementing expanded marketing activities; increasing technical assistance services to community-based enterprises; improving client performance under employment and contracting agreements; and implementing new financial assistance and other programs that enhance the quality of services to District agencies and citizens.

Develop web-pages devoted to promotion of conduit financing program, Enterprise Zone incentives and other District initiatives with links to D.C. Marketing Center, HUD "EZ Locator" and other sites;.

Launch a promotion campaign linking "Enterprise Zone" financial incentives with local hiring benefits and Local Small and Disadvantaged Enterprises (LSDBEs) with contracting opportunities that will feature print and electronic advertisement, public service announcements, community forums, publications, and video presentations.

Research the feasibility of capitalizing a public/private "Capital Assistance Program" that will offer credit support to relatively small-to-mid size business enterprises operating in commercially-under served District neighborhoods;

Implement the "EZ Loan" Program tailored to for-profit enterprise that features expedited approval and reduced transaction costs for borrowers seeking relatively small ($3 million to $15 million ) loan amounts; and

Pilot and implement the "Qualified Zone Academy Bond (QZAB) Program- an interest-free loan program designed to facilitate corporate contributions to the development and implementation of academic programs at District of Columbia public elementary and secondary schools.

The future growth within the Targeted Areas includes the following strategies:

a) Encourage local universities and employment agencies to join in providing a comprehensive campaign to increase educational assistance and vocational training;
b) Increase employment by marketing the availability of tax credits to small and minority businesses;
c) Informing and encouraging businesses to take advantage of tax incentives by relocating and/or expanding within the District and targeting industry networks, such as Business/Professional/Financial/Association Services; Hospitality/Entertainment/Tourism/Specialty Retail; Universities/Educational/Research Institutions; Biomedical Research/Health Services; Media/Publications; and Information Technology/Telecommunications
d) Increasing capital for community based businesses, including EC subgrantees currently funded by DHCD, by bidding for federal and District contracts; and
e) Exploring increased funding and promoting innovation economic development projects which alleviate social and economic inequities.

Deteriorating conditions of the living, social, and physical environment surrounding the EC is often internalized by children and adults producing a sense of worthlessness. The unstable living conditions, stemming from inadequate housing, limited access to medical services, and transportation, combined with a sense of helplessness prompts some residents to resort to destructive behavior and/or violence in order to address problems at home, school and/or work Addressing these issues is a key factor toward the development of sustainable communities and an improved quality of life throughout the District's EC.

As part of the EC strategic goal for change, the District is working continually, to empower EC residents with skills that will enable them to pull their neighborhoods out of blight and transform them into vibrant and livable communities. Through the coordinated efforts of various governmental and nonprofit organizations, the District's E GP (including EC subgrantees currently funding by DHCD), promotes sustainable development programs in impoverished and blighted communities by enhancing educational services/ opportunities via tutoring, GED preparation courses and vocational training; promoting safety via counseling and crime/substance prevention seminars, family and parenting counseling; and affording quality health care facilities and home ownership opportunities for all District residents.

In closing, it is DHCD's mission to strengthen District neighborhoods (including the EC) by facilitating the production and preservation of housing, commercial and economic development. A sampling of completed projects undertaken by DHCD in the first half of FY 2001 to further this mission and support for sustainable development appears below. All projects are located in the Enterprise Zone, Empowemient Zone, or Enterprise Community.

Activity # of Units Total Costs DHCD's Share

Multi-Family Rehab completed 2001/150 $7,646,583 $2,187,896
Multi-Family Rehab Underway 1,792 82,031,559 3,449,186
Multi-Family New Const under review/283 32,048,287 4,485,000
Single Family Rehab Project Underway/30100,000 100,000
Single Family New Constr. Underway/511 84,417,452 12,154,000
Single Family New Const Under Review/382 53,234,309 9,581,975

Sq. Footage of Comm. Facility Total Cost DHCD's Committ.
Community Facility Projects
Lincoln Theatre 18,000 20,000 20,000
Odd Fellows Building 29,000 2,335,000 840,000
Georgia Ave Upshur Park 6,800 93,000 93,000
SW Waterfront Benches 20,000 20,000
DC Developing Family Center 15,400 1,450,000 785,000
SE Tennis & Learning Center 100,000 5,160,598 1,000,000
Georgia Ave. StreetScape and Facade Program
Community Projects
Business Access Center 95,000 95,000
Foxhall Place Retaining Wall 450,000 450,000
Elmwood South Condos 601,000 601,000
City First Bank 2,000,000 2,000,000
Emergency Shelter (Scattered Sites) 1,728,000 1,728,000 -
Douglas Knoll Cooperative 21,000,000 1,795,000
Washington DC Apartment Improvement 2,000,000 2,000,000

Source: Govt. of the District of Columbia - Department of Housing and Community Development Second Quarter 2001 Pipeline Report

The District of Columbia businesses recently have used the Welfare-to-Work Tax and Work Opportunity Tax credit to reduce their Federal Taxes by more than $8 million. During the 18 month period ending March 31, 2001, the District received 4,292 requests for certification of employee for Welfare to Work and Work Opportunity Tax Credits of that number, 1,861 applications have been certified to date, resulting in the claim of more than $8,327,700 of credits on behalf of 92 District businesses.

Since FY 1999, approximately 1,200 employment positions advertised by the Department of Employment Services were filled by just five revenue bond program clients; During FY 2000, program clients registered 309 new employment positions with the Department of Employment Services and hired 1,737 persons, 591 or 34 percent of which were District residents.

The popular $3,000 District Enterprise Zone Tax Credit has been claimed by an increasingly wide array of businesses located throughout the District. Based upon hundreds of telephone inquiries and more than 196,000 searches on the District's "EZEC locator" website, several accounting firms and tax consultants have facilitated multiple business claims for the DC Enterprise Tax Credit. Although the Internal Revenue Service does not have a mechanism that would disclose the amount of EZ credits claimed, the District has provided verification of EZ locations for more than 50 consultant firms representing local banks, hotels and restaurants, retailers, such as Safeway Foods, CVS Drugs and Subway Restaurants, and office, janitorial and maintenance services, parking facilities, and telephone, electric and gas utilities.

In addition to the Enterprise Community Grant funds, the District continues to encourage communities to compete and develop partnerships with community organizations in an effort to access other community focused financial and technical resources that give special consideration to businesses that are located in impoverished areas, and organizations that address and assist the needs of "special" populations. The focus of many special public/ private tasks groups has been to create a variety of programs aimed at developing and enhancing the workforce, addressing public safety, renovating community facilities and parks, increasing home ownership and retention, and strengthening the capital and entrepreneurial markets.

Through a partnership between the DC Department of Employment Services and local non-profit organizations, the District has developed and continues its strategic planning process to include more One Stop Centers throughout the City that offer a single point of contact for the EC population in workforce development, community based technology and vocational training, education, and employment services including those services for the developmentally disabled persons: The. centers offer residents an on-line date base of available jobs and job readiness services and space for members of the private sector to conduct training in the community and apprenticeship, internship and mentoring programs developed to match young people with individuals in their field of interest. Another aspect includes an array of rehabilitation services to restore dilapidated single family homes, foreclosed retail commercial properties for new businesses and to continue to form partnerships with developers, lenders, neighborhood activists and clergy to stimulate homeownership opportunities and broaden housing stock

The EC participated in cooperative efforts between the US Department of Education's (DOE) Office of Vocational and Adult Education to explore DOE's "High Skills Communities" (HSC) Initiative. The IBC promotes learning communities by supporting partnerships in local communities among neighbors, businesses, public policy makers, and representatives of the faith community, volunteer organizations, disabilities communities, education programs, the private sector and other groups whose purpose is to raise the educational achievements of adults of all ages.

The HSC initiative can only support the goals of the EC, and the EC will continue to be a team player as the DOE tests its new and innovation way to cure global literacy. (i.e., academic, civic, social, technological, cultural, economic, employability, and occupational literacy).

The meetings were not open to the public. The main governing body met 7 times during the year. 0 % of the members are residents of the EZ/EC. The governing body does not operate with subcommittees. Subcommittee meetings are closed to the public. Subcommittees met a total of 0 times during the year.

Goal 2: Community-Based Partnership
Category 1: Governance Board
Plan 1: Guidance & assistance in the solicitation, review, evaluation & selection of organizations

Goal 2: Community-Based Partnership
Category 2: Capacity Building
Plan 1: Technical assistance to build the governing & operational capacity of the Board

Goal 3: Economic Opportunity
Category 1:Workforce Development
Plan 1: Provide job linkage and placement services through educational development and skills training programs

Goal 3: Economic Opportunity
Category 1: Workforce Development
Plan 2: Conduct pre-job referral level counseling, seminars special training and educational transition services

Goal 3: Economic Opportunity
Category 3: Access To Capital
Plan 1: Predevelopment activities required to finance the development of the Anacostia Gateway

Goal 4: Sustainable Community Development
Category 1: Housing
Plan 1: Homeownership counseling, financial & technical assistance to public housing residents

CONTINUUM OF CARE

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COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT PROGRAM

FINANCIAL SUMMARY

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