Project Prioritization for 2013 Homeless Assistance Grant Funding

Approved by the Michigan Homeless Assistance Advisory Board 12/17/2013

All new and renewal projects submitted were accepted and are included in this year’s application for Homeless Assistance Grant Funding. As was the case last year, budgetary cuts ($520,881) required the Board to rank all of its projects into either Tier 1 or Tier 2 status. Tier 1 status projects are guaranteed refunding. Tier 2 projects are at risk of defunding. Funding for Tier 2 projects is predicated upon there being enough money left after all Tier 1 projects (throughout the nation) are funded. Any money HUD has remaining will be allocated to CoCs based upon their score in the national competition. Awards will be announced within 45 days of the application submission deadline of February 3rd.

Since Tier 2 projects are not guaranteed funding they cannot incur programmatic costs after their 2014 operating end date unless they have other sources of funding to cover them or they have been approved for refunding by HUD.

1 / Michigan State Housing Development Authority / CoC Planning / $104,176 / Tier 1
2 / Michigan State Housing Development Authority / Michigan Statewide HMIS (MSHMIS) / $652,700
3 / Michigan Department of Community Health / HMIS / $136,764
4 / Shelter, Inc. / Permanent Supportive Housing / $47,138
5 / Michigan Department of Community Health / 2007 PATH / $748,756
6 / Michigan Department of Community Health / 2009 SHP New / $165,469
7 / Michigan Department of Community Health / 2008 CHI / $168,822
8 / Michigan Department of Community Health / 2006 Chronic Statewide Samaritan Init. / $267,675
9 / Michigan Department of Community Health / 2007 CH Homeless / $257,016
10 / Michigan Department of Community Health / 2004 Statewide Sub Abuse / $367,498
11 / Michigan Department of Community Health / Berrien County Chronic / $192,809
12 / Michigan Department of Community Health / 2007 Statewide Leasing / $386,792
13 / Blue Water Safe Horizons / SHP Leasing / $230,916
14 / Michigan Department of Human Services / Rural Homeless PSH Initiative / $265,367
15 / Michigan Department of Community Health / 2006 Scattered Site Leasing / $231,224
16 / Michigan Department of Community Health / Bay Arenac / $366,838
17 / Eastern Upper Peninsula Veterans Foundation / EUPVF - West Bridge Apartments / $119,741
18 / Bay Area Women's Center / Comprehensive Housing Program / $61,636
19 / Relief After Violent Encounter Inc. / HOUSE / $58,936
20 / Michigan Department of Human Services / Rapid Re-Housing Initiative / $886,870
21 / Michigan Department of Human Services / TSHLAP / $970,721
22 / Staircase Youth Services, Inc. / Transition to Adulthood Program / $103,923
23 / Bay Area Women's Center / Transitional Housing Program / $108,518
24 / Michigan Department of Human Services / Upper Peninsula TH / $119,693
25 / Center for Women in Transition / Allegan Transitional Housing / $83,264
26 / Human Development Commission / Welcome Home / $249,267
27 / Capital Area Community Services, Inc. / EHSP-Clinton and Shiawassee Counties / $95,596
28 / Michigan Department of Human Services / Rural Housing & Supportive Services / $328,650
29 / Branch County Coalition Against DV / Transitional Housing Case Management / $14,710
30 / Allegan County Housing Resource Center / HRC Supportive Services / $86,415
31 / Branch County Coalition Against DV / Scattered Site Case Management / $21,114
32 / Sacred Heart Rehabilitation Center, Inc. / Sacred Heart Clearview Support Services / $198,043 / TIER 2
33 / Sault Ste. Marie Housing Commission / PSH Partnership / $171,200
34 / Cory Place / Cory House / $139,269
35 / Sunrise Centre / 2010 PH Substance Abuse / $30,745

The prioritization process included a review of program scores which are generated utilizing the informationyou submitted to MHAAB in October. This included budget, programmatic, grant management, audit andoutcome information. All items in MHAAB’s assessment are scorable items in the funding application sothere is a clear and direct link between how your program functions and how we score in the competition. Thescores were evaluated by project type (Permanent Housing, HMIS, Transitional Housing and Support ServiceOnly) and Permanent Housing projects were given priority over Transitional Housing projects which were given

priority over Support Service Only projects. HMIS projects are such an integral part of the system they wereautomatically approved. The MHAAB also considered special circumstances, when and where appropriate,when making their decisions. This typically included information on the types of populations being served withthose programs serving specific target populations such as substance abuse, mental health, dual diagnosed,chronic, etc. receiving a higher level of consideration. In two cases it was clear that the projects functionedmuch more like another type of project than what they were currently categorized as (i.e., a PH which was

more characteristic of a SSO and a TH which was more like a PH) and were thus evaluated in that context.

Scoring outcomes will be emailed to all project applicants.