Dear Colleagues:
In light of the continued COVID-19 crisis, on 12/30/21 HUD released a memo extending select waivers set to expire on December 31, 2021 and re-introducing select previously expired waivers. Please note that not all previously available waivers were extended or reinstated.
Please use the available flexibility to prevent the spread of COVID-19 and to facilitate assistance to eligible households, particularly those most vulnerable to exposure to and/or serious complications from COVID-19.
If your agency is a Connecticut Balance of State Continuum of Care (CT BOS CoC) grant recipient (i.e., your agency receives CoC funds directly from HUD and not through another agency), you must take the actions specified below to enable waiver use. Grantees that wish to use the waiver extensions must notify HUD of their intent to do so, even if they already submitted a notification of their intent to use the waivers that were made available under the three prior HUD memos. The recipient of grant funds must notify Alanna Kabel (CPD Director of the Hartford Field Office) in writing no less than two calendar days before using the waiver flexibility. WAIVER REQUESTS MUST BE SUBMITTED TO: CPD_COVID-19WaiverHAT@hud.gov.
COC GRANTEES MUST NOTIFY HUD AND CT BOS OF INTENT TO UTILIZE WAIVERS.
The Connecticut Department of Housing (DOH) and Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services (DMHAS) previously notified HUD of their intent to use the available waivers. Both agencies have also notified HUD of their intent to use all newly available extensions. This notification covers all DMHAS and DOH CoC and ESG projects.
NOTE: DOH/DMHAS SUBRECIPIENTS SHOULD NOT SUBMIT WAIVER NOTIFICATIONS TO HUD.
Subrecipients of ESG funds administered by a recipient other than DOH, should coordinate with the relevant ESG recipient to determine what waivers they intend to use.
If your agency has a CoC grant agreement directly with HUD, you must submit a notification to HUD that you will be using the flexibility provided by the waivers and specify the waivers you will be implementing. CT BOS has provided a waiver notification template for this purpose. Agencies that have a CoC grant agreement directly with HUD are encouraged to use the materials created by CT BOS.
If you are interested in using the waivers, please take a moment to read the following:
As always, please feel free to reach out with any questions.
Sincerely,
CT BOS Team
