The Allegheny County Department of Human Services (DHS) and the City of Pittsburgh’s Office of Management and Budget (City, OMB) are pleased to present their joint applications for Emergency Solutions Grant funds (ESG).
Donor Name: Allegheny County Department of Human Services
State: Pennsylvania
County: Allegheny County (PA)
City: Pittsburgh
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 08/17/2023
Details:
Applicants may complete/apply for funding for one or both of the following:
- Shelter and Street Outreach
- Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Rehousing
Eligible Activities
- Eligible activities include emergency shelter, street outreach, homelessness prevention (HP) and Rapid Re-Housing (RRH) activities. Activities included within HP and RRH are rental assistance, housing relocation or stabilization services, credit repair, security deposits, utility arrearage payments, and moving costs or other relocation or stabilization activities as allowable per federal and local policies.
- HP and RRH activities must serve people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness.
Eligible Program Components
- Street Outreach
- Essential Services related to reaching out to unsheltered homeless individuals and families, connecting them with emergency shelter, housing, or critical services and providing them with urgent, non-facility-based care. Eligible costs include engagement (inclusive of food, blankets and other vital concrete goods), case management, emergency health and mental health services, food and transportation.
- Emergency Shelter
- Essential Services such as case management, childcare, education services, employment assistance and job training, outpatient health services, legal services, life skills training, mental health services, substance use treatment services, transportation and services for special populations Shelter Operations, including maintenance, rent, repair, security, fuel, equipment, insurance, utilities, relocation and furnishings
- Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Eligible Costs
- Housing relocation and stabilization services and rental assistance necessary to prevent the individual or family from becoming homeless if:
- Annual income for the individual or family is below 30% of median family income.
- Assistance is necessary to help program participants regain stability in their current permanent housing or move into other permanent housing and achieve stability in that housing.
- Housing relocation and stabilization services and rental assistance necessary to prevent the individual or family from becoming homeless if:
- Data Collections (HMIS)
- Housing Management Information System (HMIS) participation is a requirement of ESG recipients (DV/IPV shelters cannot participate in HMIS but must use a comparable database to provide aggregate reports). Grant funds may be used for the costs of participating in the existing HMIS of the Continuum of Care where the project is located.
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible program participants for emergency shelter, transitional housing, HP and RRH must meet HUD’s definition of homelessness:
- An individual or family lacking a fixed, regular and adequate nighttime residence, meaning:
- An individual or family with a primary nighttime residence that is a public or private place not designed for/not ordinarily used as a regular sleeping accommodation for human beings, including a car, park, abandoned building, bus or train station, airport or camping ground.
- An individual or family living in a supervised publicly or privately operated shelter designated to provide temporary living arrangements (e.g., congregate shelters, transitional housing, and hotels and motels paid for by charitable organizations or by federal, state, or local government programs for low-income individuals).
- An individual who is exiting an institution where they resided for 90 days or fewer and who resided in an emergency shelter or place not meant for human habitation immediately before entering that institution.
- An individual or family who will imminently lose their primary nighttime residence, provided that:
- The primary nighttime residence will be lost within 14 days of the date of application for homeless assistance.
- No subsequent residence has been identified.
- The individual or family lacks the resources or support networks (e.g., family, friends and/or faith-based or other social networks) needed to obtain other permanent housing.
- Unaccompanied youth under 25 years of age or families with children/youth who do not otherwise qualify as homeless
- Any individual or family who:
- Is fleeing, or attempting to flee, DV/IPV, dating violence, sexual assault, stalking, or other dangerous or life-threatening conditions that relate to violence against the individual or a family member, including a child, that has either taken place within the individual’s or family’s primary nighttime residence or has made the individual or family afraid to return to their primary nighttime residence.
- Has no other residence.
- Lacks the resources or support networks (e.g., family, friends, faith-based or other social networks) to obtain other permanent housing.
- An individual or family lacking a fixed, regular and adequate nighttime residence, meaning:
- New Applicants (those that have not been under contract with either Allegheny County or the City of Pittsburgh in the past 3 years) must attach 501(c)3 documentation and an Audit of Financial Statement.
For more information, visit ACDHS.
