2021-09-07 HCHA Approved Minutes

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HCHA meeting September 7, 2021 tough right now and so we can do an additional deposit, we can also help with storage moving costs what have you, this contract essentially this extends us through June 30, 2022 or once the first round of funds are exhausted. Continue on Sharon. If you want more information, this is the website you can go to, on that website, I'll tell you there's some key points. Sharon if you want to continue on. The main thng is, is where to apply, these are the six non -profits that I mahalo deeply, these folks have been in the trenches fighting hard since April 2020 and they continue to work hard, I give them so much gratitude and mahalo and you folks should be proud of these people. Folks can apply in person, they can apply by phone, they can go on-line to any of these six partners and get that application in and so I just mahalo them and you should know they are working very hard for the community and for you folks. Continue on Sharon. This gives you a snapshot of where we were at last week so we've since have gotten a report we're at close to five million dollars disbursed to I think 750 approved applicants but this gives you some data on that dashboard, if you folks go here weekly on every Wednesday it's updated so if you want to know where we stand, what's happening, this will give you the information that you're looking for. Seeing the duplicate application numbers that have been disapproved, this tells us this system is working so using one data system tells us we're not doubling up on payments out to families so this represents that if an individual applies with two non -profits, three or four, they'll be denied from the ones where their application was the latest and taken only by one non-profit to be applied to the first, obviously, missing documents is one thing we continue to struggle with in this program though it represents about 1 % of applications, 10%, continuing on, applications received, this gives you a sense of who's applying, I will tell you self-employed individuals has increased significantly over the last month. I think the numbers of employed folks and those recently returned to work, just going to share with you where we are at as an economy, what are we looking at when 56% of folks are applying and they are unemployed and you're seeing about 18% returning back to work, still have a significant number of folks having reduced work hours and we have this aggregated data by gender head of household as well as race and ethnicity, we felt this was critical to make sure that we are addressing the needs of those disproportionately impacted economically by COVID. Continue on Sharon. This shares with you folks those who have now received funding and those who have been approved and so I can't stress enough, families are coming to us with about $27,000 annually and that's hard to afford anything. I just want you to know this program is helping a significant numbers of families under 50% AMI so very low income folks, with average grant is about 3,500 bucks but I really, I want to point your attention to that number of total individuals approved, households, this program has helped 21,000, 21,090 children and adults on Hawai `i island stay housed stably and that's just from the financial assistance and you know, in terms of, if you're looking at the race and ethnicity data, the gender data, this aggregated, we're essentially seeing a proportional amount of applications, received applications Page 22 of 34