Title
Approval of the 2020 Home Fund Advisory Funding Process
Recommended Action
Move to approve the recommendation forward the 2020 Home Fund Capital Award process to Council for consideration.
Report
Issue:
Whether to authorize staff to proceed with finalization of the 2020 Home Fund Capital Award process and forward it to Council.
Staff Contact:
Cary Retlin, Home Fund Manager, Community Planning & Development, 360.570.3956
Presenter(s):
Cary Retlin
Background and Analysis:
In order to support construction of 300 units of supportive housing in Thurston County in five years, the Home Fund is proposing moving their funding round in front of Thurston County's round in 2020. The 2019 Home Fund award round closed in May, after the Thurston County Homeless and Affordable Housing RFP closed (on April 5th). For 2020 staff propose closing the Home Fund award before that cycle begins in order to make supportive housing projects more competitive in the county funding round.
Highlights of Changes for 2020
This RFP is designed to focus on construction of supportive housing for people exiting homelessness, a high-priority need for the county according to the county's 5 Year Plan to End Homelessness. Unlike 2019, this does not require that a project is in the county's funding pipeline (in part because this application will occur first).
This application includes three high-level requirements:
* At least 40 units of the project must be set aside as supportive housing.
* At least 60 percent of the units must be set aside for referral for homeless households through Coordinated Entry.
* Units must be targeted to serve households described in the Objectives section below.
The 2020 RFP also changes the scoring criteria weighting from 2019:
Priority population: 20 points
Readiness: 20
Single adults (new): 10
Supportive housing: 20
Cost: 30
TOTAL 100
Neighborhood/Community Interests (if known):
N/A
Options:
1. Forward the 2020 Request for Proposal prep...
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