assistance and services such as housing search and placement, housing stability, mediation, legal services, credit repair, budgeting, and money management. Also eligible and identified as a need in the county by the Executive Oversight on Homelessness Work Group are housing locator and capacity building activities to identify a wide range of new and existing temporary and permanent housing beds in order to increase available inventory throughout the County of Riverside. Housing locator and capacity building activities are defined by the EOCH Work Group as: Create a Housing Search and Capacity Building Team of Housing Locators who, with support from a wide-range of community members, focus on finding various affordable housing options for street outreach workers to engage homeless persons in order to help motivate them to pursue an appropriate affordable housing opportunity and work with a housing navigator to obtain and maintain the housing. Housing Search and Capacity Building: Housing Locators, with support from a wide-range of community members, focus on finding various housing options for street outreach workers to engage homeless persons. Engaging a wide-range of community representatives in housing search activities with housing locators will result in an increase of affordable housing opportunities. This allows a street outreach worker to concentrate on developing a relationship that will help the worker motivate a chronically homeless person to pursue an appropriate affordable housing opportunity and work with a housing navigator to obtain and maintain the housing. RR activities must meet all of the HUD requirements specified at 24 CFR 576.104 including requirements for: eligible program participants; eligible costs, including financial assistance costs and services costs; maximum amounts and periods of assistance; use with other subsidies; limitations on maximum rent levels; rental assistance agreement with owner; lease agreement between owner and participant; and condition of housing assistance is provided. Bidder describe in detail how it plans to help homeless persons living on the streets or in an emergency shelter transition as quickly as possible into permanent housing and help such persons achieve stability. BIDDER’S RESPONSE: Bidder’s proposed project shall carry-out the scope of the Rapid Re-housing program component as set forth in 24 CFR 576.104; 25 CCR 8408 to do the following: Provide supportive services to clients for no longer than six (6) months after rental assistance stops; Re-evaluate program participants, at least once annually, to: Ensure that program participants have sufficient resources and support networks in place to retain housing; Determine the appropriate type and level of assistance that the program participants need to retain housing.
assistance and services such as housing search and placement, housing stability, mediation, legal services, credit repair, budgeting, and money management. Also eligible and identified as a need in the county by the Executive Oversight on Homelessness Work Group are housing locator and capacity building activities to identify a wide range of new and existing temporary and permanent housing beds in order to increase available inventory throughout the County of Riverside. Housing locator and capacity building activities are defined by the EOCH Work Group as: Create a Housing Search and Capacity Building Team of Housing Locators who, with support from a wide-range of community members, focus on finding various affordable housing options for street outreach workers to engage homeless persons in order to help motivate them to pursue an appropriate affordable housing opportunity and work with a housing navigator to obtain and maintain the housing. Housing Search and Capacity Building: Housing Locators, with support from a wide-range of community members, focus on finding various housing options for street outreach workers to engage homeless persons. Engaging a wide-range of community representatives in housing search activities with housing locators will result in an increase of affordable housing opportunities. This allows a street outreach worker to concentrate on developing a relationship that will help the worker motivate a chronically homeless person to pursue an appropriate affordable housing opportunity and work with a housing navigator to obtain and maintain the housing. RR activities must meet all of the HUD requirements specified at 24 CFR 576.104 including requirements for: eligible program participants; eligible costs, including financial assistance costs and services costs; maximum amounts and periods of assistance; use with other subsidies; limitations on maximum rent levels; rental assistance agreement with owner; lease agreement between owner and participant; and condition of housing assistance is provided. Bidder describe in detail how it plans to help homeless persons living on the streets or in an emergency shelter transition as quickly as possible into permanent housing and help such persons achieve stability. BIDDER’S RESPONSE: Bidder’s proposed project shall carry-out the scope of the Rapid Re-housing program component as set forth in 24 CFR 576.104; 25 CCR 8408 to do the following: Provide supportive services to clients for no longer than six (6) months after rental assistance stops; Re-evaluate program participants, at least once annually, to: Ensure that program participants have sufficient resources and support networks in place to retain housing; Determine the appropriate type and level of assistance that the program participants need to retain housing.
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