Housing First Sample Clauses

Housing First a. RECIPIENT will target twenty-five units (20.1% of total units) to individuals/families experiencing homelessness, including the Community-wide Priority List for Housing, and any other referral sources approved by the COUNTY. RECIPIENT, or its designee, agrees to meet with COUNTY, RECIPIENT’s supportive services partner(s) and RECIPIENT’s property management partner(s) at least Ninety (90) days prior to anticipated start of accepting tenant applications to determine how referrals for available units will be identified. RECIPIENT, or its designee, shall initiate this meeting. b. RECIPIENT, or its designee, agrees to meet with COUNTY, RECIPIENT’s supportive services partner(s) and RECIPIENT’s property management partner(s) regularly thereafter, for the lease up period and when subsequent vacancies occur. In the event of unit turnover, after the initial lease-up period, RECIPIENT or its property management partner shall provide written notice to RECIPIENT’S supportive services partner(s) that a unit will become vacant. Such notice shall be provided once RECIPIENT or its property management partner has a reasonable expectation that a unit will become vacant. c. In the event that a unit remains vacant for 30 days, without receiving an application form any prospective tenant in the target group, despite RECIPIENT’s and its property management partner’s good faith efforts to rent said unit, then RECIPIENT and its property management partner may rent said unit to a person outside the target group. d. RECIPIENT shall not deny any households referred by RECIPIENT’S supportive service’s partner for the following reasons: i. Inability to meet a minimum income requirement if the applicant can demonstrate the ability to comply with the rent obligation based on a rental history of paying at an equivalent rent to income ratio for 24 months ii. Lack of housing history

Housing First. Grantee services and operations shall align with the Core Components of Housing First as defined in California Welfare and Institutions Code, section 8255. This includes integrating policies and procedures to provide tenant-centered, low- barrier access to housing and services.

Housing First. In alignment with HUD, all homeless programming will adhere to Housing First principles as noted below: • Housing First is an approach to quickly and successfully connect individuals and families experiencing homelessness to permanent housing without preconditions and barriers to entry, such as sobriety, treatment or service participation requirements. • Supportive services are offered to maximize housing stability and prevent returns to homelessness as opposed to addressing predetermined treatment goals prior to permanent housing entry. Homelessness, ▇▇▇▇▇://▇▇▇.▇▇▇▇▇.▇▇▇/tools-for-action/housing-first-checklist

Housing First. The Contractor shall ensure programs are informed by and consistent with Housing First principals, an approach to serve people experiencing homelessness that recognizes a homeless person must first be able to access a decent, safe place to live, that does not limit length of stay (permanent housing), before stabilizing, improving health, reducing harmful behaviors, or increasing income.

Housing First. Under the HSRA, Housing First means a program that provides clients with immediate access to independent permanent housing and supportive services without prerequisites for sobriety or participation in psychiatric treatment. Clients in Housing First programs may choose the frequency and type of supportive services they receive and refusal of services will have no consequence for their access to housing or on continuation of their housing and supportive services. A Housing First orientation is one of the universal qualities that a coordinated assessment process should include. Coordinated assessment tools should not be used to determine “housing readiness” or screen people out for housing assistance, and therefore should not encompass an in-depth clinical assessment. A more in-depth clinical assessment can be administered once the individual or family has obtained housing to determine and offer an appropriate service package.

Housing First. Grantee services and operations shall align with the Core Components of Housing First as defined in California Welfare and Institutions Code, section 8255. This includes integrating policies and procedures to provide client-centered, low- barrier access to housing and services. 3 HMIS Participation Agreement and Continuous Data Quality Improvement Process, available here: ▇▇▇▇▇://▇▇▇.▇▇▇▇▇.▇▇▇/get-information/one-system/ 4 Please refer to Providers Connect: ▇▇▇▇▇://▇▇▇▇▇▇.▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇.▇▇▇/sites/HOM-Ext- Providers/?CT=1649882191370&OR=OWA-NT&CID=da71fbbd-d886-f23c-be4f-e1022f11bb1a

Housing First. Any housing-related activities funded with HHAP funds, including but not limited to emergency shelter, rapid-rehousing, rental assistance, transitional housing and permanent supportive housing, must be in compliance or otherwise aligned with the core components of Housing First, pursuant to Welfare and Institutions Code section 8255, subdivision (b).

Housing First. Housing First is a homeless system orientation designed to return homeless people to housing as quickly as possible without a “housing readiness” test, or other conditions to entering housing. Programs in a Housing First homeless system empower homeless people to overcome barriers to obtaining permanent housing. A Housing First system does not require that households spend time in a shelter or graduate from a transitional housing program in order to receive Permanent Supportive Housing, although many households will enter housing from a shelter. In order to achieve a Housing First system orientation, homeless housing units in the system must remove screening barriers and screen in homeless households, many of whom may have barriers that traditionally make it more difficult for them to rent in the private market.

Housing First. Housing First is an evidence-based practice in which clients are offered shelter, housing, and supportive services regardless of their sobriety or use of substances, completion of treatment, or participation in services. Contractor services and operations shall align with the Core Components of Housing First as defined in California Welfare and Institutions Code, section 8255. This includes integrating policies and procedures to provide tenant-centered, low-barrier access to housing and services.