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hazards. The other program is the County's Section 8 Rental Assistance Payments Program which prohibits rental subsidy for any unit that is built before 1978 if there is a family member under the age of 5 and the unit contains peeling paint. Other action/ plans are to distribute pamphlets to applicants on lead hazards and continue to test homes that were found to have lead paint. Actions planned to reduce the number of poverty -level families According'to the current Census, 17.4% of the people in Hawaii County are below the poverty level. This is above the State's poverty level of 13.7% and is contributed by such factors as education, language and employment in the County. The County plans to utilize HUD funds to continue administering the Tenant Based Rental Assistance Program (TBRA) that targets the extremely low and very -low income households. This would limit the households from paying more than 30% of their income to housing costs. Another program the County is administering is the National Housing Trust Fund (HTF) that targets the extremely low-income households. The HTF can be used to acquire, construct or rehabilitate rental housing and rent to extremely low-income households. In rural areas the HTF law considers households with income below poverty line as extremely low income. Administering the HTF will assist the county in reducing the number of poverty -level families. In addition, the County is administering the Department of Labor's Workforce Innovation and Opportunity pp y Act ( WIOA )program which require sone -stop shop. The one-stop concept allows a client to access various services from a central location, which includes self-sufficiency and financial literacy programs. The mandatory partners in the one-stop shop are. WiOA programs, Native American programs, migrant and seasonal farm worker programs, veteran employment program, adult education, welfare -to -work, senior community service employment programs, vocational rehabilitation services for the blind programs, Hawaii Community College and HUD employment and training programs. Actions planned to develop institutional structure The County continues to participate in CDBG/HOME/HTF Quarterly Coordinators' Meetings which coordinates State-wide activities and performances measures; State-wide Continuum of Care group which meets every other month to collaborate on homeless issues; the Inter -Agency Council on Homelessness which meets every other month to enable better access to mainstream programs and to end chronic homelessness; HOME State Recipient Group which meets periodically to coordinate HOME program and projects; quarterly meetings with Fair Housing Officers from the State and other Counties and State-wide Housing Directors which meets monthly to collaborate on housing issues. Actions planned to enhance coordination between public and private Rousing and social Annual Action Plan 2021 . oru1B Control No: 2506-0117 (exp. 09t30diifi2l) 0 W