U - HUD

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
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Special Attention of: Notice H 93-8 (HUD)
All Regional Administrators;
Directors, Offices of Regional Issued: 3/1/93
Housing; Office of Regional Public Expires: 3/1/94
Housing; Regional Directors of
Administration; Directors of the ____________________________
Regional Accounting Divisions; Cross References:
Field Office Managers, Category A
and B Offices, Category C Offices with
Multifamily Management; Directors, Offices of
Indian Programs; Field Office Housing Management
Division Directors, Directors, Farmer's Home
Administration State Offices
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SUBJECT: Application Review and Selection Procedures For the
Congregate Housing Services Program - FY 1993 I. PURPOSE: This Notice provides instructions to Regional
Administrators and others regarding procedures necessary for
reviewing applications and the selection of grantees for the
Congregate Housing Services Program (CHSP). A Request for
Grant Application (RFGA) is attached at Appendix 1; the RFGA
contains the Interim Common Rule and the Notice of Funding
Availability (NOFA). For use of this Notice and the cross-reference of
materials in the application package, please only use the
HUD citations and ignore any FmHA citations used below.
FmHA has determined that the citations listed for FmHA are
incorrectly stated and must be revised. The substance of
the rule is identical for both programs. II. BACKGROUND: Section 802 of the National Affordable Housing
Act (Public Law 101-625) directs HUD and the Farmers Home
Administration (FmHA) to administer a CHSP designed to
provide meals, expanded services, retrofit, and certain
modernization activities in housing projects for the
elderly. The program participants are frail elderly,
nonelderly disabled and temporarily disabled persons who
require such services to sustain independent living, prevent
premature institutionalization and encourage
deinstitutionalization of eligible individuals in
institutional settings. _______________________________________________________________________ HMEES : Distribution: W-3-1, W-2(H)(FHEO)(ZAS)(OGC)(PDR),W-4(H),R-1,R-2, R-
3,R-3-1(H)(RC), R-3-2, R-3-3, R-6, R-6-1, R-6-2,
R-7, R-7-1, R-7-2, R-8, R-8-1 Previous Editions Are Obsolete HUD 21B(3-80)
GPO 871 902 _____________________________________________________________________ the six-year transition period. Renewal of current grants
will be discussed in another Notice in early calendar 1993. This Notice does not include procedures for start-up of the
new program, nor for ongoing monitoring and renewal of CHSP
grants after the selection and start-up period. Start-up
procedures will be issued in a follow-up Notice to this one
this spring. Procedures for on-going monitoring and renewal
of both new and existing grants will be included in the
"Selection, Monitoring and Technical Assistance Handbook for
the Congregate Housing Services Program", Handbook 4640.1
REV-1, which will be published later in the calendar year. III. SUMMARY OF NEW PROGRAM FEATURES: These features are stated more fully in the Interim Common
Rule; certain program features are more fully explained in
the RFGA. A. ELIGIBLE APPLICANTS: - States,
- Indian tribes
- Units of general local government
- local non-profit housing owners (including public
- and Indian housing authorities) B. ELIGIBLE PROJECTS: Eligible housing projects are housing for the elderly
and disabled in occupancy as of the date of the
deadline for the submission of applications and are
assisted under the following programs: - Public and Indian housing,
- Sections 202, 221(d) and 236,
- Section 8 projects, either those in which there is
a contract attached to the structure, or new
construction or substantial rehabilitation.
- Section 514, 515 or 516 projects administered by
FmHA Although grantees are limited to non-profit owners or
units of government, profit-motivated owners may be
included under the auspices of an application submitted
by a unit of government. C. ELIGIBLE PERSONS: Persons eligible to participate in CHSP are: 2 _____________________________________________________________________ - Frail elderly persons (age 62 or older) who
require assistance with at least three activities
of daily living (ADLs). - Temporarily disabled persons (62 years of age or
older). - Non-elderly disabled persons residing in
eligible housing for the elderly, consisted with
the definition of "persons with disabilities" in
Section 700.105 of the Interim Common Rule. Additionally, the following persons may also
participate in CHSP at the option of the grantee's
program management by paying full costs for services: - Elderly and disabled residents of participating
projects who would normally be ineligible for
CHSP. - Elderly and disabled persons who are
non-residents. D. ELIGIBLE SERVICES: Services include case management, a required meals
program of at least one meal a day, seven days a week
for some or all of the participants, personal
assistance, housekeeping and other services required by
program participants to live independently. New
eligible services include non-medical supervision,
monitoring of medication consistent with state law,
personal emergency response systems and other requested
support services, if approved by HUD and/or FmHA. The program also allows for the employment of a Service
Coordinator, who, as part of the case management
process, assures that program participants are linked
to appropriate services necessary for independent
living. Also, eligible under the Statute, are retrofit and
certain modernization activities designed to
accommodate resident needs and create a range of
facilities for resident use. Retrofit and renovation
activities, however, are NOT funded under the FY 1993
CHSP NOFA. E. FUNDING: HUD, with the assistance of FmHA, will
conduct a national competition to award five-year
renewable grants to successful applicants. 3 _____________________________________________________________________ Funds totaling approximately $33,021,000 are available
from the FY 1992 appropriation under the Departments of
Veterans Affairs, Housing and Urban Development, and
Independent Agencies Appropriations Act of 1992 (P.L.
102-139), the FY 1993 appropriation under the
Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban
Development and Independent Agencies Appropriations
Act, of 1993 (P.L. 102-389), and an estimated $321,000
in carryover funds from prior years. As of the date of
printing, the carryover amount is not final; it will be
decreased by some amount. The allocations below will
be adjusted downwards once the carryover amount is
finalized. Approximately 20 percent ($6,637,221) of the total
funds will be made available to FmHA. The remainder, 80 percent, ($26,383,779) is dedicated
to HUD projects. Funds for HUD projects will be
divided as follows among three allocations according to
the percentage of units in each eligible project type
in the HUD inventory: 1. Section 202 projects for the elderly and disabled
and public and Indian housing projects for the
elderly and disabled: About 55.5 percent
($18,260,613). 2. Section 202 and public housing projects for the
non-elderly disabled: About 2.5 percent
($825,525). 3. Sections 8, 221(d) and 236 projects: About 22
percent ($7,297,641). If there is an insufficient number of fundable FmHA
projects or fundable HUD projects, excess funds
allocated to either will be made available for the
other. However, any such reallocation will be
published in the Federal Register. (See NOFA for
additional explanation). F. MATCH REQUIREMENTS: Cost sharing is outlined in Sections 700.235 and
1944.260 of the CHSP Interim Common Rule which states
that: - HUD will provide funds to cover up to 40 percent
of the costs of supportive services. 4 _____________________________________________________________________ - States, Indian tribes, units of general local
government, project owners or other third-party
sources will pay at least 50 percent of the costs.
In instances where the State is the applicant, the