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| Homelessness and shelter | 108 |
| Housing and affordability | 55 |
| Health and human services | 40 |
| Grants and outside funding | 22 |
| Intergovernmental agreements | 13 |
| Budget and appropriations | 11 |
| Police and public safety | 9 |
| Public facilities | 8 |
| Contracts and procurement | 7 |
| Appointments and personnel | 6 |
| Drugs and addiction | 6 |
| Tax rate and revaluation | 6 |
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Accepts a $127,004 HUD planning grant for the homeless services Continuum of Care, with a $31,751 city match, for a $158,755 project.
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Accepts a $170,218 federal Emergency Solutions Grant and adds $180,000 from the city's dedicated housing fund, a $350,218 project.
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Awards the county's HOME-ARP money, of which $1,275,403 was set aside in May for rental assistance and supportive services, to Housing for New Hope, the only applicant.
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Buys 3211 Bramer Drive in Raleigh for $4,150,000 and transfers it to the Women's Center of Wake County. The 23,625-square-foot former charter school now houses the county's temporary drop-in shelter and would become up to 20 non-congregate shelter units for women. The county buys only if Raleigh grants a special use p…That the Board of Commissioners: 1. Authorizes the acquisition of 3211 Bramer Drive, Raleigh, NC, at a purchase price of $4,150,000; 2. Authorizes the County Manager to execute any documentation nece…
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Homeless and Prevention Services presents the Bridge to Home impact report and implementation guide. The program is tied to the county's goal of cutting unsheltered homelessness 10% from 2024 levels by 2029. The study compares results with the years before the program and includes qualitative work by Duke University's…Staff or committee report Homelessness and shelter
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The Continuum of Care reports pending applications of $6,989,569 for youth homelessness, $7,378,974 in HUD Continuum of Care renewals for 16 projects, and $392,309 in state Emergency Solutions Grants, with awards expected by year end. It also covers White Flag cold-weather shelter planning for about 280 beds and 14 op…
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6. Wake at HomeAn update on Wake at Home, the effort to close encampments by moving people directly into housing, which has rehoused more than 30 people from its first site. Next steps include defining a rapid exit from shelter and setting up a private fund.Staff or committee report Homelessness and shelter
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Housing for New Hope and Central Pines Regional Council report on UNITE Street Medicine, the ARPA-funded team that brings health care to unsheltered residents with partners including the HEART response team and Durham Tech.
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Urban Ministries of Durham reports on the first five months of the county's $350,000 day services pilot for unsheltered residents, which runs through January 2027.Presentation Homelessness and shelter
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Adds emergency and transitional homeless shelters that take public money to the places where drug offenses carry enhanced penalties. It also bars camping or sleeping on public property unless a local government designates a site, with Department of Labor rules due by June 2027. Residents and businesses could sue a loc…Filed by Rhyne, Chesser, and Pickett. Last action: placed on the calendar for 4 August 2026. Changes Chapters 160D (local planning and development regulation) and 90 (medicine and controlled substanc…
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House Bill 437 creates drug-free zones within 300 feet of publicly funded homeless shelters and transitional housing, making drug sales there by adults 21 and older a Class E felony. It also bars cities and counties from allowing camping or sleeping on public property. A local government that designates a camping area…Filed by Rhyne, Chesser, and Pickett. Last action: placed on the calendar for 4 August 2026. Changes Chapters 160D (local planning and development regulation) and 90 (medicine and controlled substanc…
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The county's emergency housing coordinator on future services, including shallow rent subsidies and rapid rehousing.
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A resolution adopting a five-year framework aiming to make homelessness in Durham rare and brief by June 2031, with a system goal of housing people within 30 days.
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Two halves. The first draws drug-free zones 100 to 300 feet around homeless shelters and service facilities, making sale or possession of a controlled substance inside one a felony, adding penalties for operators who knowingly allow offences on their premises, and requiring signs marking the zones. The second bars loc…Filed by Rhyne, Chesser, and Pickett. Last action: placed on the calendar for 4 August 2026. Changes Chapters 160D (local planning and development regulation) and 90 (medicine and controlled substanc…
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Would make a drug offense within 300 feet of a homeless shelter or a publicly funded homeless service provider a Class E felony for anyone 21 or older, and would make it a Class 1 misdemeanor for the operator of such a facility to knowingly allow one. A separate part restricts camping and sleeping in public spaces: a…Filed by Rhyne, Chesser, and Pickett. Last action: placed on the calendar for 4 August 2026. Changes Chapters 160D (local planning and development regulation) and 90 (medicine and controlled substanc…
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Proclaims August 24-26, 2026 as Supportive Housing Week, requested by Housing for New Hope, a Durham nonprofit working to prevent and end homelessness.Staff or committee report Health and human servicesHomelessness and shelterHousing and affordabilityTransit
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Routine approval of property tax releases and refunds for June 2026, covering valuation adjustments, listing discrepancies, and clerical errors.Proclamation or recognition Homelessness and shelterHousing and affordabilityTax rate and revaluation
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Authorizes the county manager to accept easement conveyances for the Whispering Pines Stream Restoration Project and execute related documents.
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26-0444 Continuum of Care ILA RenewalRenews an interlocal agreement between Durham County and the City of Durham restructuring governance of the NC 502 Continuum of Care, reconstituting HSAC as a thirteen-member governing board for HEARTH Act oversight.
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Appropriates grant funding for the county's homelessness Continuum of Care program.
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Commissioners discussed helping the Board of Elections identify additional early voting sites after NC State's Talley Student Union was dropped, though no vote was possible because it was not on the agenda. Commissioner Stallings reported Wake County will receive more than $67 million in opioid settlement funds over 1…
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Staff presented the FY2025 annual report of the Orange County Partnership to End Homelessness for the council to receive; no action was requested.Staff or committee report Budget and appropriationsHealth and human servicesHomelessness and shelterHousing and affordability
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A $381,456 federal award which, with match and programme income less a 10 percent administration allowance, gives the consortium about $450,000. Only two applications were received and both funded: $180,000 in full to Habitat for Humanity for repair and rehabilitation, and $271,981 to a homelessness partnership for te…
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A substantial amendment to the county's HOME-ARP allocation plan, which governs federal pandemic-era housing money aimed at homelessness and housing instability.
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The county accepts grant funding for its Continuum of Care homelessness program.
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Five speakers, all supporting the data centre moratorium.
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A one-year moratorium on large-scale data centers as a land use, covering artificial intelligence data centers, cryptocurrency mining facilities, data centers, data processing facilities and similar uses. The board directed the study on March 5, received it March 17, and voted then to advertise this hearing and to hav…Adopted unanimously
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A budget revision moving grant funds within the county's Continuum of Care homelessness program.
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Authorizes the city manager to sign an agreement with Durham County to jointly fund consulting work on the city's homeless strategic framework.
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Quick updates from partner organizations attending the breakfast.
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Hillsborough Youth Athletic Association's president asks the board to support stricter trespassing penalties, citing drug use, vandalism, and harassment linked to unhoused people near the association's baseball field.
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Briefing on a strategic initiative to reduce homelessness, including a 2026-2027 'direct to housing' surge phase and an update on federal Continuum of Care renewal funding for Wake-area homelessness programs.
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The board approved most of a 17-item consent agenda in one vote, including tax releases, proclamations, a server-licensing contract, solar-project funding and a shelter-contract renewal. It pulled a $1.7 million loan for an Orange Grove Fire District fire station after a resident raised transparency concerns, and vote…
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The $25,000 agreement has the county pay the city, which will pay consultant Community Solutions International to develop a homelessness strategy.
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Update on the transition of the Continuum of Care (homelessness services) program, including a memorandum of understanding.
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Annual system performance measures report for the Continuum of Care homelessness program.Staff or committee report Health and human servicesHomelessness and shelterHousing and affordability
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Collaboration with Wake County emergency management on using schools as emergency shelters.
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This consent block carried over five items from the canceled January 26 meeting: a $133,000 organizational-assessment contract with Baker Tilly Advisory Group, a $500,000 contract with Hayti Reborn - Justice Movement, a resolution endorsing the Downtown Durham Blueprint: 2035, a $350,000 contract with Urban Ministries…
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Appropriates grant funds for the county's Continuum of Care program, which coordinates homelessness assistance and housing services.
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Adopts a $158,755 HUD Continuum of Care planning grant ordinance for FY2025-2026.
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A review of how the county is tracking against its strategic plan. Mobility on Demand wait times fell from 22 to 19 minutes against a 15-minute target. Homelessness cases stay open because placements and rental support are not available. Cold weather shelter beds in northern Orange County went unused and that program…
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A review of the five housing bodies: the affordable housing advisory board, the Local Government Affordable Housing Collaborative, the housing authority board, and the Partnership to End Homelessness leadership and executive teams. Only the first is genuinely advisory. None currently examines housing gaps over time. T…
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Staff told the board it intends to award the day shelter contract to Urban Ministries of Durham under RFP 26-012. The scope of work and budget were still being negotiated; the contract itself comes back to the board later.Staff or committee report Budget and appropriationsHealth and human servicesHomelessness and shelterHousing and affordability
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Staff described the situation at the Seymour Center and a possible bag policy developed with the library and the county attorney. The county's street outreach team, now back at full staffing, offered training for center staff and will be at the centers the first and third Saturday of each month in 2026. The building a…
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The Orange County Partnership to End Homelessness reported system-level data submitted to HUD along with obstacles and successes. The main risk is the HUD Continuum of Care grant: the new funding notice mandates a 70 percent cut to permanent housing and guarantees only 30 percent of annual renewal funding, affecting p…
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Extends a contract with Open Table Ministry for temporary weather-related emergency shelter and supportive services for people experiencing homelessness, adding $157,513 for a total contract value up to $537,513.
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Updates the interlocal agreement among Orange County and its three towns governing the joint Partnership to End Homelessness.
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Largest items: a $1,193,227.00 contract with Southern Wall Systems for Justice Services Center exterior and window work; a $974,879.51 contract with KBS Earthworks for the Whispering Pines stream restoration, alongside a $600,000 NCDEQ grant for the project; a $535,356 annual grant to Urban Ministries of Durham; adopt…
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Consent approval to appropriate grant funds for the county's homelessness Continuum of Care program.
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Consent approval of a $313,750 increase to a homelessness coordinated-entry and diversion services contract with Volunteers of America Carolinas, bringing it to $2,060,000 and extending it to June 2026.
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The county's property tax relief program drew 949 applications, a significant increase staff attributed to the revaluation. New repair and rehabilitation funds are available for older residents, and cold weather night shelters have opened with one night used so far.
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The committee reviews a redesign of the Wake Prevent! homelessness prevention program.
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An update on building out the county's Continuum of Care homelessness response system.
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A preference for the Housing Choice Voucher waiting list, worth 101 points on the agenda, would apply to Emergency Housing Voucher holders transitioning to the regular program. It covers families who were homeless, at risk of homelessness, fleeing domestic or dating violence, sexual assault, stalking or trafficking, o…Approved unanimously
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UNC offered the county a rent-free, up-to-ten-year ground lease on an underused building for a cold weather shelter and a future integrated day center serving unhoused residents; the county would bear renovation and maintenance costs, estimated at $80,000-plus for initial compliance work and $750,000 to $1.25 million…Approved unanimously: authorized negotiation of the lease and a budget amendment for a compliance and design study
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General Business 1 Durham Housing Authority Board of Commissioners - AppointmentsThe council considered appointing two residents to the Durham Housing Authority board, one a public-housing resident and one a formerly homeless individual, to terms expiring September 28, 2030.
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III UpdatesStaff said HOME federal funding is expected to rise more than 200% and reported heavy demand for the Longtime Homeowners Tax Assistance Program, with about $360,000 committed this year and matching funds from Chapel Hill and Carrboro. The board also heard updates on the county's Land Use Plan 2050 process, Consolidate…
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approved · Pass · A motion was made by Vice Chair Katie Kenlan, seconded by Commissioner Amanda Robertson, that the lease agreement with Love Chatham, Inc. for the operation of the transitional housi…
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approved · Pass · A motion was made by Vice Chair Katie Kenlan, seconded by Commissioner Amanda Robertson, that the contract with Second Bloom of Chatham, Inc for an emergency shelter and grant reimb…
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HUD approved technical assistance on the Continuum of Care's governance structure and coordinated entry; a public town hall kicks off the process September 11 at the Drakeford Library Complex.
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The Leadership Team debated splitting a reduced $44,000 Emergency Solutions Grant pot between the rapid rehousing program and the Inter-Faith Council's Homestart shelter, which had appealed for funding. The team ultimately awarded the full amount to rapid rehousing.Full $44,000 awarded to rapid rehousing; three recused, one opposed, rest in favor
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The Access to Care committee's Photovoice project is gathering material from people who are unhoused, in low-income housing, or with limited English. The Behavioral Health committee is shifting focus to increasing the number of mental health providers in the county. Connections to Community Support is drafting an affo…Reports receivedStaff or committee report Health and human servicesHomelessness and shelterHousing and affordabilityLitigation and settlements
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VIII.B Health Director ReportThe director reported the state's first measles case, a pertussis outbreak of 60 to 70 cases, and a tuberculosis case in an unhoused patient. She thanked the commissioners for prioritizing employee benefits in a tight budget and warned that state and federal funding forecasts are poor, with SNAP's state funding at ris…Staff or committee report Budget and appropriationsHealth and human servicesHomelessness and shelter
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The housing director presented January's point-in-time count, coordinated with Durham County to avoid double counting, and the first of a new monthly report covering the housing helpline, street outreach, SOAR and housing access coordination. More than half of those counted are over 45. Rapid rehousing outcomes join t…
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Contract or award Homelessness and shelter
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Contract or award Homelessness and shelter
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Emergency housing expects to serve 13 to 15 people a year at $4,500 a month. HOME funding will rise rather than fall next year. Most unawarded vouchers are special purpose vouchers for veterans awaiting referrals from the Durham VA; the rest are at their cap.
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The university's local relations director on Franklin Street panhandling and support for unhoused people, including a possible day centre in university space on Homestead Road; the downtown admissions visitors centre, now likely to stay on campus; a corridor feasibility study near the powerplant; a proposed $4.5 billi…
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III UpdatesThe draft consolidated plan puts preservation and homelessness services ahead of homeownership assistance. The annual action plan and five-year plan go to the commissioners before the June recess. Staff are recommending more money for the Long Time Homeowner Assistance programme because of tax increases.Staff or committee report Grants and outside fundingHomelessness and shelterHousing and affordability
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Five affordable housing developers described what applying for county money is like: annual cycles that cannot match acquisition timing, a scoring rubric that disadvantages small projects, applications and quarterly reports handled by email rather than a portal, and land and zoning as the binding constraint. They aske…
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A study with UNC Gillings students and community partners. The barriers described were housing, employment and system navigation rather than the healthcare system itself. Care inside incarceration is standardized; outside it depends on a person's support system.
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Pee Wee Homes has two of three capital-funded units built in Northside, Chapel Hill, with residents moving in at the end of May. HUD is cutting staff heavily in research and fair housing, though municipal funding is so far untouched. About $1.2 million in HOME ARP money aimed at unsheltered residents is expected in au…Staff or committee report Civil rights and nondiscriminationHomelessness and shelterHousing and affordability
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The manager said cuts to Medicaid or food and nutrition administrative funding would force a reduction in force, and reported a stop work order received that morning for two grant-funded positions. Some grant funds are already on hold. The vice-chair repeated a request for a public dashboard on federal cuts.
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Mental health and substance use funding, community paramedicine and mobile crisis response, Medicaid reimbursement for behavioural health transport and urgent care, fewer people with mental illness in detention, innovation waiver slots against a waiting list of about 17,000, and better pay for providers. Regulation of…
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More unsheltered people under 55 are spending time in the building, raising safety concerns. Street outreach staff will walk through at night and on Saturdays, and the department is hiring an evening desk assistant, preferring security experience.
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The first consultant draft of the consolidated plan is in, with a public hearing on 15 April. Staff described HUD as chaotic and said planned staff cuts in community planning and development would affect HOME, homelessness and housing-first work.
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VII.A Vision Zero Chapel HillSix traffic deaths and thirteen serious injuries in Chapel Hill over five years, with areas of concern overlapping communities of colour and low English proficiency, against a target of zero by 2030. Protected bike lanes and road diets are paused because the programme's federal grants are frozen. Outreach includes peo…
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The homeless services advisory committee's annual report.Staff or committee report Homelessness and shelter
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Homelessness in the county rose 22 percent and unsheltered homelessness 17 percent. Cold weather cot services ran 23 nights in 40. HOME American Rescue Plan money goes to tenant-based rental assistance prioritising unsheltered people. The homeowner tax assistance programme served 594 residents.
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The ten-year plan has not been updated since 2020 and the gaps analysis not since 2021, which staff attributed to losing key staff and leadership changes; both are due by January 2026. Monthly data reporting starts in April, covering helpline contacts, coordinated entry intakes, exits from homelessness, street outreac…
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The HOME consortium with Chapel Hill and Carrboro, landlord incentives including signing and referral bonuses and a risk mitigation fund, eviction diversion, and the civil rights programme handling fair housing and public accommodations cases. Emergency housing assistance has fallen from $15 million in pandemic fundin…
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Second Bloom presented the shelter advisory board's community needs assessment, recommending several paths to emergency, semi-permanent and more flexible shelter for survivors, drawing on local advocates.
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An overview of the partnership's work and the system-level data filed with HUD this year. COVID-era relief funding is exhausted and partners report smaller grants and fewer small donors while need stays high. Fair market rents have risen enough that over half of the county's renter households are cost-burdened, and th…
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Fourteen items passed together: minutes, motor vehicle and property tax releases and refunds, a late property tax exemption application, an excise tax overpayment refund, renewal of the jail medical services agreement with Southern Health Partners, enhanced voluntary agricultural district designations for several farm…Approved unanimously
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The low-barrier housing work group begins in January, opening with a community forum held with Alliance Health. The chair asked that the item also go to Justice United.
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Housing staff reported that a new life-changing-event eligibility path let 21 households apply for rental assistance before eviction court, avoiding a filing entirely in 12 cases, while the share of applications denied rose from 53% to 66% under the fiscal year's tightened rules.Staff or committee report Budget and appropriationsHomelessness and shelterHousing and affordability
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Five ordinances would recognize federal entitlement funds the city has already received: $2,052,760 for Community Development Block Grants, $1,140,306.45 for HOME investment partnerships, $179,195 for emergency solutions, $1,103,729 for housing aid to people with HIV/AIDS, and $106,610 for a Continuum of Care homeless…
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It authorized a $650,000 grant agreement with Legal Aid of North Carolina, funded with dedicated housing funds, to continue the Eviction Diversion Program providing legal representation to low-income renters facing eviction for late or unpaid rent.
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The council holds a public hearing on how to use HOME-American Rescue Plan funds.
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The council would authorize a seven-month, $200,000 contract with Open Table Ministry, Inc. to run a non-congregate emergency shelter and support services for people experiencing homelessness during cold weather.Contract or award Homelessness and shelter
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Would authorize a two-year, $955,000 contract with Volunteers of America of the Carolinas for homelessness coordinated entry with diversion, funded by dedicated housing funds.
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A public hearing would consider the draft FY2022-2023 Annual Action Plan and $4,232,000 in Community Development Block Grant, HOME, Emergency Solutions Grant and Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS funds.
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The council would receive the Homeless Services Advisory Committee's 2021 annual report.Staff or committee report Homelessness and shelter
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The council would appoint Jenise Washington to the Durham Homeless Services Advisory Committee's faith community seat through June 30, 2024.
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An amendment would raise the city's three-year grant contract with Legal Aid of North Carolina by $1,060,000, from $1,545,450 to $2,605,450, to keep funding legal representation for residents facing eviction.
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The council would carry forward unspent Fiscal Year 2020-21 funds into the current budget, amend capital project ordinances covering a ballpark and stormwater work, and accept two HUD Continuum of Care grants and a U.S. Marshals Service fugitive task force grant.
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The council would authorize $72,211.39 in federal COVID relief funds for a contract with Families Moving Forward to provide emergency shelter services.Contract or award Homelessness and shelter
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10 Contract with Open Table Ministry, Inc. for Emergency Shelter and Homelessness Prevention ServicesThe council would authorize a $406,322 contract with Open Table Ministry for emergency shelter and homelessness prevention services, funded with federal COVID relief money.Contract or award Homelessness and shelter
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The council would authorize a $129,000 contract with Project Access of Durham County for emergency shelter and rapid rehousing services.Contract or award Homelessness and shelter
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The council would authorize a $725,278 contract with Urban Ministries of Durham for emergency shelter services.Contract or award Homelessness and shelter
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The council would authorize a $486,456 contract with Volunteers of America of the Carolinas for homelessness prevention services.Contract or award Homelessness and shelter
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