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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1983-06-13 83-228 ORDER83-228 Introduced by Councilor Jordan, sure 13, 1993 _ CITY OF BANGOR (TITLE.) UUrba, __....... .......RRR.LRX.7.iAg sad Adopting City of Bangor _. Housing Assistance Plan By the City Couiwd of the aty ofBammr: ORDERED, THAT, WHEREAS, U.S. Department of. Housing :and Urban Develop- ment regulations require that a conmwnityy applying for additional Community Development Block Grant Funds. hav an approved and adopted Housing Assistance. Plan, NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT. ORDERED, THAT the City of Bangor Housing Assistance Plan for the period October .11 1982 , to September 30, 1985, a copy of which is on file in the office of. the City Clerk, is hereby approved and adopted. _ STATEMENT OF FACT: ThisHousingAssistance Plan will supersede the City's current Housing Assistance Plan which vexed the period October 1, 1980 to September 30, 1983. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is requiring anew Housing e Assistance Plan on new forms from each community participating in the Community Development Block Grant Program. In City Council June 13,1983 83-228 Refered to P1exmi g Board Consider',O R D E R Next regular meeting - Title APProvi.. andA..*t..g City 04 ".... HauaSl .............................f Bsoa or Y Clerk Aeaiatarce Plan ...................................... In City Council .lune 27,1983 traduced and filed by Passed rl Co ti.... Ci Clerk 83 .,:,,,,y ?/''.t'7 C1-: u CI?1' City of Bangor Housing Assistance Plan October 1, 1982, to September 30, 1985 1982-1985 BANGOR HOUSING ASSISTANCE PLAN Part I - HousinR Assistance Needs The Housing Assistance Needs for the Bangor Housing Assistance Plan, as summarized in Table I - "Housing Stock Conditions" and Table II - "Rental Subsidy Needs of Lower Income Households" indicate that of 4,364 substandard units suitable for rehabilitation 2,694 were occupied by Lower income families. Of these 2,694 units it can be concluded from Table II that there are approximately 2,133 families which are low income households in need of rental subsidy. This Housing Assistance Plan represents the community's best estimate of a feasible program to assist a number of these families over the three-year period from October, 1982 to September, 1985. Table I - Housing Stock Conditions The Housing Conditions statistics developed in Table I are based on detailed analysis of conditions in the community by Census Tract using local housing survey data to adjust 1980 Census Data on a census tract basis. Each Census Tract was adjusted on the basis of new construction and demolition information from the Code Enforcement Office aswellas the applications of housing conditions based on local housing conditions surveys carried out by City Code Enforcement Staff. The definition of "substandard" used in Table I is derrived from the City of Bangor's Basic Property Maintenance Provisions of.. the nationally recognized Building Officials and Code Administrators Building Code. Units classified in Table I as being substandard had at least one or more violations of the BOCA Code. These violations were evaluated as to severity and classified according to those structures having one to four violations or five or more violations of the Code. If a property had only -c one to four violations it's considered a substandard unit "suitable for rehab". If the property_ had five or more violations of which there was at least one major violation (i.e., deteriorated foundation, no heating system, etc.) then the structure was not considered "suitable for rehabilitation." (Also, the violations must be economically and structurally feasible to correct in .order for the buildings to be considered suitable forrehab- ilitation.) The primary source of data for Table II - "Rental Subsidy Needs of Lower Income Households" was Table D of the Housing Assistance Plan/1980 Census Data Materials Submitted by HUD. The "To Be Displaced" data developed from projections from the Code Enforcement Office over the three-year period and projections of possible demolitions in the City's Neighborhood Conservation Project on the West Side Area.. (Marc are no other governmental actions or private developments presently. which appear to require displacement of dwelling units.) 1l P[t \982 _ FR,m nw,Wra Us. DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT 1. NAM'1F louwxi y COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT B LOCK GRANT PROGRAM ENTITLEMENT PROGRAM riTv Ar 2 EIRANTNUMMEP HOUSING ASSISTANCE PLAN S ASCII October, T 1982 TO: SepteMbL 1985 HUD APPROVAL A Sune 3BM1983 a �o,ipine1 0IUM OAmennme 16 Mr mvrcNarn monMwl ram PART I - HOUSING ASSISTANCE NEEDS PART 11 THREE YEAH GOAI TABLE I- UNITS TO BE ASSISTED TABLE I - HOUSING STOCK CONDITIONS WEHABIPUTATIOryNEW CONVERSION TO OF CONSTRUCTION STANDARD UNITS SUBSTANDARD AM HOME IMPROVEMENTS STANDARD UNITS SUBSTANDARD UNTS SUBSTANDARD UNITS SUITABLE FOR REHAB TENETS E OCCUPIED UNITS — VACANT UNITS OCCUNED uxn VACANT LOTS 00 UF"nuNITF TRrM VACANT ARTS isI n Owne.1 25 1__ 202 Renter B Own.. 6 TABLE II - LOWER INCOME HDUSEHOLDS TO RECEIVE RENTAL SUBSIDIES E EMILY SMALLFAMILY LERGEFAMILY TOTAL Ren¢r 33 5 18] 2]42 IB Her 'tows to De Amsted 42' 9 i0 TABLE II - RENTAL SUBSIDY NEEDS OF LOWER INCOME HOUSEHOLDS I I00% TABLE III - GOALS FOR HUD RESOURCES: SUBJECT TO LOCAL REVIEW AND COMMENT ELDERLY I SMALLFAMILV LARGE FAMILY TOTAL TOTAL T 2s I B Very Low lnwme HOUSING TYPE PREFERENCE/MFxbnum Number or Ones MFt WN/Ce Aaep_te✓/ 9 Pe,xnt % % % ION le I Ot"KLowerinnme 21415 EiR Tob Oi I"d Z _ n TDI1I re Percm 29.5x 66.3x L.I % .__Dox__ PART 11 THREE YEAH GOAI PART 111 - GENERAL LOCATIONS TABLE I- UNITS TO BE ASSISTED WEHABIPUTATIOryNEW CONVERSION TO OF CONSTRUCTION STANDARD UNITS SUBSTANDARD AM HOME IMPROVEMENTS Own 25 IB 8 1 13139 381 (UNITSE%PECTEO TOASSIST LOWER INCOME HOUSEHOLDS) isI n Owne.1 25 1__ 202 Renter 31 '3 3 TABLE II - LOWER INCOME HDUSEHOLDS TO RECEIVE RENTAL SUBSIDIES E EMILY SMALLFAMILY LERGEFAMILY TOTAL F B4 IB Her 'tows to De Amsted 42' 9 i0 Percent1 29 % 1 67 % 1 4 % I I00% TABLE III - GOALS FOR HUD RESOURCES: SUBJECT TO LOCAL REVIEW AND COMMENT ELDERLY WALLFAMILY 1 LARGEFAMILV TOTAL T 2s I Households to h Amsted 29 HOUSING TYPE PREFERENCE/MFxbnum Number or Ones MFt WN/Ce Aaep_te✓/ TS REHAB EXISTING NEW 58 58 25 ®b,¢E this box if the AUfmNNt wanes to review State HNAMy APmey pmpmis witllm In firamakehm PART 111 - GENERAL LOCATIONS The expected to reside component of Table II yielded an estimate of 24 elderly units based on waiting list data provided by the Bangor Housing Authority. The only major planned employment project is projection of the addition of approximately 500 persons in the 1984 thru 1986 period from the development of an Over the Horizon Radar Project in Bangor at the Airport in the Air National Guard area. An analysis of military pay scale (October, 1982) as compared with the Section 8 Income Guidelines for the City indicates that there would be very few people (perhaps only E-1 Personnel) who would fall below law - ie guidelines. Also the lower ranking military personnel without dependents will be housed on the project site in military barracks. Additionally, there are 167 dwelling units of Capehart housing which the military has available in Bangor to house families who might arrive s a result of this project. Given the fact that it is unknown as to how many of the 500 jobs would be in place by the end of the HAP period and the fact that income levels will probably be above the low income guidelines, no persons were identified from this planned employment projact . There were no projected increases in low-income households from current employment as traditional commuting patterns in. the Bangor area from adjacent communities are extremely stable and -long-time residents ofthe area do not object to the short time, low-cost commutationfromadjacent communities. Also, there is an area bus transit system which providesinexpensive commutation from these immediately adjacent com- munities. unities. Housing costs in these communities tend to be as low or lower than those in the City of Bangor and this provides a little' incentive for persons to change their place of residence. Elements in the Population With Special Housing Need Minority population in the City of Bangor represents less than 2% of the total noninstitutional population. (Approximately 214 out of 572 persons are black and the remaining 358 persons are categorized as American Indian, Eskimo, Aleut, Asian, and Pacific Islander.) Because of these small numbers, there is insufficient data to identify n each family type the distribution of minority population. However, there is data available on the poverty status of these groups from the 1980 U.S. Census. This data indicates that approximately 36 households would be below the poverty level in 1979 and while there is not exact information by income level as to the tenure type of this section of the population, it is known that in all housing units the distribution is approximately 40% in owner -occupied housing and 60% in rental occupied housing. This means that there are approximately 14 owner - occupied dwelling units inhabited by minority households and approxi- mately 22 rental units occupied by poverty level, minority households. Poverty level statistics is the 1980 Census would fall above the 'very low income"Section 8 limits and below the "low income" Section 8 income limits for this area. The needs of low-income minority house- holds would appear to be similar to all other low-income households n the community as minority householders are distributed almost. equally in the various Census Tracts of the City. In contrast to the minority households, there are a significant number of female head -of -household units with children present in .the below poverty level status according to the 1980 U.S. Census. There are some 367 households so identified from 1980 Census information. There is no data available as to the distribution of these households by tenure type, but it can be assumed that the largest percentage of these are inrenter occupied units. Based on the City's experience - in previous neighborhood conservation projects, the needs of these households are met by the rental rehabilitation and Section 8 rental subsidy programs which the City has used in the past. Due to recent court rulings on the need to deinstitutionalize populations in State facilities such as Pineland Hospital, a facility for mentally retarded young adults and children, and the Bangor Mental Health Institute facility which is located in the City of Bangor, there has been an increase in the need for housing assistance for handicapped persons. The State Bureau of Mental Retardation has been instrumental in developing group home facilities for the developmentally disabled in the Bangor area and throughout the State. A 1978 survey of housing assistanceneeds of the developmentally disabled (those persons having physical as well as mental handicaps) indicated that there were 27 non -elderly disabled persons having housing assistance needs in Bangor. Most of these people were young, single adults with little or no personal income. Consultation with Human Service Agencies in the City indicates that most of the persons who have been deinatutionalized presently have housing in the City. (Of 200 people monitored at a mental health out-patient program run by the Regional Mental Health and Counseling Center, there was one person, a recent prison dischargee,who was in need of housing.) There are several facilities in the area providing housing for non -elderly handicapped persons: 1. Homes Unlimited, Inc., a group home providing shelter for 12 educable or trainable mentally retarted adults: 2. The Independent Living Center, 10 units at Musson College for physically handicapped adults: and 3. The Elizabeth Levinson Center, a regional intermediate care facility for 42 severely and profoundly retarded children between the ages of 2 and 18. Also, there is an additional group home for six mentally retarded persons which has been approved by the City in recent ,months. In addition to these facilities, there axe a number of foster homes in Bangor providing shelter for handicapped persons. Day activity programs for the handicapped are provided in a number of centers in Bangor including the Multiple Handicap Center of Penobscot Valley, the Cerebral Palsy .Center, and the Bangor Regional Rehabilitation Center. It is anticipated that the primary solution for providing assisted housing to this sector of the population will continue to be the group home programs which provide support as well as housing. The City of Bangor is in the process of revising its Zoning Ordinance to provide for a clear definition of what constitutes a group home" and to clarify the residential areas in which such uses are.to be allowed. Part II - Three Year Goal Table I - Units To Be Assisted The Assisted Housing Goals for the 1982 thru 1985 period as .shown in Table I are all anticipated to assist lower income households. The units to be assisted are anticipated to come from the following sources: 1. 'Section 8 Moderate Rehabilitation -25 Housing Units 2. Section 8 Substantial Rehabilitation - 19 Housing Units 3. Rental Rehabilitation Demonstration - 31 Housing Units 4. Community Development Block Grant Rehabilitation - 100 Housing Units The home improvement units are derived from estimates from the Penquis C.A.P. Weatherization Program and are also, all assistance to lower income households. In addition to the Section 8 Moderate Rehab, Section 8 Substantial Rehab, and the Rental Rehab Demonstration units indicated above, there are also projected 25 units of Section 8 existing housing to make up the total 100 lower income households to receive rental subsidies indi- cated in Table II. It is anticipated that most of these subsidies will be to the very low income households, as over half of the house- holds indentified as in need of rental subsidies in Table II under Part I are identified as very low income. As is indicated above, the lower income households to receive rental subsidies will be assisted entirely, from HUD resources. Mare - fore, the units indicated in Table III - Goals for HUD Resources" are the same as those indicated in Table II - "Lower Income Households to Receive .Rental Subsidies". The units indicated under Housing Type Preference (Line 22) indicate the mix of units by housing type preference which the City desires. However, this is not intended to indicate that the City would not wish to receive additional units above the number indicated on Line 22. On Line 23 the -City has indicated that it wishes to review State Housing agency proposals within its jurisdiction. There is, in fact,' an agreement with the State Housing. Authority and the City of Bangor which provides for such review presently in existence. Part IV -'Annual Housine Assistance Goals The City's Annual Assistance Goals for the October, 1982 thru September, 1983 period project accomplishment of over one -third -of the three-year goal during this initial year. (A total of 84 units are xous(NZAND UNMAN DEVELOPMENT Sty EO COMMUNTOE NITY EEVELo MU:MONMAFT PROGRAM an CrT ISUETpKD ANTNUMIER B2. HOUSING ASSISTANT PLAN - - PC MOV OF APPuuuuT `[21 ssi02 E XUDAMgOVAI FROM 10/82 9/83 OamemenE 03 13woso 11RANNm MMMW N 7-INCONPOgATIONOF NAP, PARIS 1 -III, BY REFERENCE. Pem 1, Il aM 111 of qe XPPpproveE -yy lneppxMEy py �aNMr�w mtl va na mnuirletl lntBiTMI'�IA�NYeErwbnlabn./EMmemendnm Pl NAP, Parts l-111, IT EM I PANT IV ANNUAL MOUSING ASSISTANCE GOALS IROIECE UNITE TO BE ASSISTED LONE P i INCOME MANEM)OS TO NO ASSISTED LurHWNAM Rm MXu+IM�Mp/^ VA. O,F ENvRAW NUMBER OF UNI. MOUMING TIFF ELDERLY f^MIL' FAMILY TOTAL H HUD Section 8 Existed Housing Program XT34ehabil 0 30 1 31 HUD Section 8 Moderate Rehabilitation Program X 0 2 1 3 HUD Section 8 Substantial Rehabilitation Program X 16 16 CDBG Rehabilitation Assistance- 10 23 1 34 ITS DFA STOOD) to be assisted during this period.) Also, the proportionality of housing types is within very close tolerance of the percentages projected for the three-year Housing Assistance Plan. The City of Bangor and the Bangor Housing Authority will apply for any and all available units under the HUD Section 8 Program in order to fulfill its obligations under this goal and the City of Bangor's Community Development Department will pursue the rehabilita- tion assistance to low-income householders in its 'Neighborhood Conser- vation Project on the West Side of the City. HUD criteria will assure that those assisted under the Section 8 Program meet low-income guidelines and the City of Bangor's criteria for eligibility for rehabilitation assistance under its CDBG Program is the same as that for HUD Section 8 Programs. The City will not loan monies to rehabilitate units which are not inhabited by owner or renters which meet the, low-income standard. - NOTES: 1. Households To Be Displaced No lower income households are estimated to be displaced due to conversions of rental units to homeowner units in the HAP period. There is only one conversion project in progress to our knowledge. This project involves 74 housing units which presently house no lower income persons and which will probably be sold to tenants. the present - 2. Estimating Lower Income Minority Household Needs Because of the small numbers involved, 1980 U.S. Census infor- mation is not available for minority population groups in Bangor, particularly in the Housing Series Tables. The information noted in the HAP narrative was derived from two census tables: one which indicated city-wide tenure status for "'blacks", for "American Indian, Eskimo and Aleut"and for "Asian and Pacific Islander' households. Me other Table indicated "minority poverty status" for Black" and American Indian, Eskimo, Aleut' persons. By estimating the number of households which the poverty status persons represented and applying minority tenure ratios to these it was possible to estimate low income minority households. 3. Other Special Housing Needs. There is almost no detailed data available for identifying the characteristics of the handicapped population in the City of Bangor. The indicators discussed in the narrative are based on consulta- tion with a number of State and Local Agencies and organizations: Maine State Bureau of Mental Retardation Bangor Community Health and Counseling Service Bangor Mental Health Institute (State of Maine) It is impossible, according to representatives of these organiza- tions, to identify the socio-economic. characteristics of the handi- capped population and the families involved. In fact, it is difficult to come up with the comber of handicapped persons in the community. 4. Neighborhood Statistics Pro¢fam The City of Bangor is a participant in the Neighborhood Statistics Program of the Bureau of the Census.. When this information becomes available, the City will review its small area data and refine any housing data which appearsappropriate. Qqtr 5-10-*ajxrz� �6�k f Q J M 9