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HCHA meeting April 6, 2021 <br />Basically, we have a budget authority of two thousand sixty-five families, <br />vouchers that we can help families with. Right now, we have about two <br />thousand families that we're helping and about two hundred searching and <br />currently our waitlist is open. We also made some changes to the way we are <br />going to select our families. We are doing it by lottery and we limited, historically <br />we had like six thousand families on the waitlist, we are keeping it very small so <br />that they are not sitting for five or six years and we're hoping to educate them <br />and get them housed and helped faster so that they still have hope, you know, <br />and also we, the other reason for limiting is we decided to adopt a strategy to <br />help the homeless so we have a memorandum of agreement with Community <br />Alliance Partners right now, it's the first agency we accept referrals for homeless, <br />the homeless population. So we take them by referrals versus the waitlist and <br />we help them immediately so we're hoping to expand that to other third -party <br />agencies like the state DOE, Steadfast, Department of Health so that's the major <br />changes, about seventy percent of our vouchers will be towards homeless and <br />then we are also, we will probably maximize our project based vouchers. We <br />are, I think we only have sixteen percent remaining, which is about two <br />hundred, so we have about a hundred more, so we have projects in the pipe, <br />we'll probably maximize that in the next couple years to increase inventory. <br />Kierkiewicz: Excellent. Thank you, Desiree. Any questions from agency <br />members? Mr. Inaba. <br />Inaba: Good morning. So, I'm not really familiar with how these coupons work, <br />is it income based or what qualifies you, is it AMI? <br />Moore: It is income based, so it is based off of HUD's income limits, a <br />percentage, thirty percent, fifty percent and eighty percent of the AMI. We are <br />mandated to help seventy-five percent of our newly admitted to the program, <br />they have to be thirty percent and below. <br />Inaba: Ok, and you mentioned homeless, is it just families or individuals as well? <br />Moore: Both. <br />Inaba: Both, is there a breakdown between families versus individuals on who <br />we are helping? <br />Moore: We prefer families and we have put it on the third -party to come up <br />with their own selection process so they have their own preferences as to how <br />they will refer their clients. I think the focus has been on children, homeless <br />children. <br />Inaba: Got it, ok, that's all at this time. Mahalo. <br />Page 3 of 15 <br />