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,\11 )101111)), The purpose of this Substantial Amendment to the County of Hawaii Consolidated Plan 2015-2019 is to include HUD's new National Housing Trust Fund Program (HTF) Hawaii Housing Finance Development Corporation (HHFDC) is a designated State HTF Grantee Hawaii County is a designated HTF Sub - Grantee. Executive Summary ES -05 Executive Sum ary - 24 CFR 91.200(c), 91,220(b) 1. Introduction The County of Hawaii is required to submit a Consolidated Plan (CP) to the U S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in order to receive ts Community Development Bock Grant (CDBG) funds: The purpose of the County's CP is to ensure that jurisdictions receiving direct federal assistance utilize and develop a plan for its housing and related needs of extremely -low,, very low-, low-, and moderate -income families in a way that improves the availability and affordability of decent, safe and sanitary housing within a suitable living environment. The County's CP has three major sections: Housing & Special Needs Housing; Homeless; and Community Development: The County's CP provides goals, priorities, needs, and data used to develop the plan for how the County intends to administer the HUD CDBG Program. The State of Hawai'i's CP provides background, direction, and a plan for how the State intends to administer HUD's Horne Investment Partnership Program (HOME), Emergency Shelter Grant (ESG), and Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS (HOPWA) to assist in meeting the housing needs of Hawai'i's citizens, In PY2018, the County of Hawaii will be a designated State HTF Sub -grantee for HUD's new National Housing Trust Fund (HTF), to provide affordable rental housing units serving households with incomes at or below 30% of the area median income. The County's Office of Housing and Community Development (OHCD) reviewed the 2011 ,Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing and noted that the following impediments were completed: • Develop video to increase awareness of Fair Housing violations. Develop Fair Housing Information on County Website • Conduct studies to determine progress in removing barriers, Although these impediments were completed, the OHCD would still like to include them in the Analysis of Impediments (Al) because we will still be updating the video for Marshallese, llocano and Spanish speaking families, updating the Al and monitoring the County website. The 2011 Al (Appendix E) is applicable for the 2015-2019 Consolidated Plan, Consolidated Plan HAWAII COUNTY OMB Control No 2506-0117 (exp 06/30/2018)