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In this Week's Edition
News
Two New HUD Funding Opportunities
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New Report Details Success of New Jersey’s Groundbreaking Fair Housing Model
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First Data Now Available
Following Pandemic for Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed Households
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Addressing Racial Equity with CDFI Funds
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Homeless and Housing Resource Center
Coordinating Systems of Care to
Provide a Comprehensive Behavioral
Health Crisis Response to Individuals Experiencing Homelessness
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DDD Updates:
Temporary Service Modifications
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New Jersey Opioid Recovery
and Remediation Fund
Advisory Council Listening Sessions
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NLIHC: Eviction Record Sealing and Expungement Toolkit
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HUD Shares LGBTQIA+ Fair Housing Toolkit
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Resource on Documenting
Long COVID for SSI/SSDI Applications
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DCM Associates Offering Discounts
to SHA Members In 2023
Resources & Events
CSH 2023 Community Housing Asset Mapping:
A Health Center Learning Collaborative
May 3 - 24, 2023
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Older Adult Mental Health
Awareness Day Symposium
May 11, 2023
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PLAN NJ Person-Centered Life Planning:
Securing the Future for People with Disabilities
May 16, 2023
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Denville
Apply by May 17th
Stratford
Apply by May 23rd
Cresskill
Includes special needs and non special needs housing
Click here for full details on Cresskill Housing
Apply by June 2nd
Manalapan
Apply by June 12th
Freehold
Apply by June 13th
Lacey
Apply by June 14th
Montvale
Apply by July 5th
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Next SHA
Developers Meeting
May 8, 2023
Virtual
Guest Speaker
M. Geraldine A. Manganaro
Housing Program Director
New Jersey State Office, Rural Development
United States Department of Agriculture
Topic
Funds available
through USDA for Housing- USDA Multi-Family Housing Programs offering Rural Rental Housing Loans
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Next SHA
Members Meeting
June 7, 2023
In-Person, Trenton
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Registration is now open for the 2023 Law & Disability Conference!
May 4th from 9am-1pm Annual FREE Law & Disability Conference hosted by the New Jersey Bar Foundation.
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Abilities Expo
NJ Convention Center, Edison
May 5, 6 & 7
(11-5 F, Sa; 11-4 Su)
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Join HUD’s 2023 Innovative Housing Showcase! The Showcase is a three-day HUD event on June 9-11, 2023, on the National Mall between 4th St and 7th St. The event will be open to the public and free of charge.
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LeadingAge New Jersey & Delaware
Annual Meeting + Expo
June 20-22, 2023
Atlantic City
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Save the Date!
SHA's 25th Annual Conference
November 3, 2023
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Shout out to our members Rutgers University Behavioral Health Care and Woods Services as they team up with RWJBarnabas Health folllowing a state grant of $800,000 toward the startup costs for the first integrated primary and behavioral health care center for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and autism in New Jersey. The world-class center is expected to open to families and individuals in early 2024 at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Hamilton in Hamilton. The center will serve individuals who live in the central New Jersey region, with future plans to expand services to other areas of the state.
By providing equitable access to primary, specialty and behavioral health services, this center will improve health outcomes and reduce the overall costs of care for children and adults with I/DD and autism, and related behavioral and medical conditions, many of whom currently face a severe lack of services.
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SHA Welcomes New & Returning
Members In 2023
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Two New HUD Funding Opportunities | |
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HUD Publishes Youth Homelessness
Demonstration Program (YHDP) NOFO
Due on June 27, 2023
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The Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) for Youth Homelessness Demonstration Program (YHDP) is now available! YHDP is an initiative designed to address systemic responses to youth homelessness and significantly reduce the number of youth experiencing homelessness. Through this NOFO, HUD will award approximately $60 million in up to 25 participating communities. All communities are encouraged to apply for the YHDP NOFO on grants.gov by the submission deadline of June 27, 2023.
Application Details
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All communities are encouraged to apply. Applications must be submitted through grants.gov (and not through e-snaps).
- The Application is for your community’s participation in the initiative only. Project funding applications will only be submitted by communities selected to participate.
- This Application must be submitted by a community’s Continuum of Care (CoC) Collaborative Applicant and co-developed with a broad array of community partners, including a Youth Action Board (YAB), a state or local child welfare agency, youth homelessness housing and service providers, local schools districts, workforce development organizations, law enforcement, judges, corrections, and more.
- Youth leadership is a critical component of YHDP. Communities are required to establish a YAB to guide the Coordinated Community Plan and YHDP project design development.
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Links to the NOFO and additional resources will soon be posted to the YHDP page on HUD.gov. Technical Assistance documents on YHDP are located on the YHDP page on the HUD Exchange.
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HUD Announces New Stream of FUP Vouchers
HUD announced that it will make available $5 million for Family Unification Program (FUP) vouchers. This funding will strengthen coordination among key providers for youth and family homelessness to provide housing and supportive services.
Applications are due by May 25, 2023.
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New Report Details Success of New Jersey’s Groundbreaking Fair Housing Model | |
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NJ’s Mt. Laurel Doctrine Has Led to Creation of Over 21,000
Affordable Homes in Historically Exclusionary Communities Since 2015
The Fair Share Housing Center released a new, first-of-its-kind report, Dismantling Exclusionary Zoning: New Jersey’s Blueprint for Overcoming Segregation. Featuring personal narratives and extensive new data, the report documents the success of the Mt. Laurel Doctrine, New Jersey’s groundbreaking affordable housing model, which is known as the strongest framework in the nation to require affordable homes in historically exclusionary communities. This framework was first established through organizing and legal action by local NAACP branches and residents in South Jersey almost 50 years ago. It has led to the creation of nearly 70,000 new homes since enforcement was reinvigorated in 2015 — including over 21,000 deed-restricted affordable homes.
At a press conference, legislators and advocates discussed how New Jersey’s model can be a national blueprint for beginning to address the nationwide housing crisis. For other states looking to build on the success of New Jersey’s model, the report recommends five key components:
- A baseline legal requirement that municipalities must provide their fair share of affordable housing.
- A methodology to calculate housing obligations that prioritizes creating affordable homes in historically exclusionary communities, along transportation corridors, and near employment opportunities.
- A requirement that homes have long-term affordability for the people and families that are most likely to be excluded, paired with flexible production mechanisms that also increase overall housing supply.
- Strong legal frameworks of enforcement with real consequences for municipalities that shirk their obligations.
- Advocacy institutions that use enforcement frameworks to ensure that municipalities comply with their obligations.
In the landmark 1975 Mount Laurel decision, the New Jersey Supreme Court declared exclusionary zoning unconstitutional and found an affirmative obligation on every town in New Jersey to provide their fair share of the region’s affordable housing. The Mount Laurel decision upended decades of exclusionary zoning that drove residential segregation and is often compared to the historic decision in Brown v. Board of Education.
As New Jersey prepares for the Fourth Round of Mount Laurel obligations in 2025 — when each municipality will have to develop an updated plan for how to provide additional affordable homes — advocates emphasized that the doctrine’s success is predicated on the support of grassroots advocacy organizations, as well as strong enforcement.
The report was supported by funding from the Wells Fargo Foundation. “Improving access to safe, decent affordable homes as part of an overall strategy to increase housing supply is critical to the Wells Fargo Foundation’s work,” said Amy Anderson, Senior Vice President and Social Impact Lead for Housing Access and Affordability at the Wells Fargo Foundation. “At a time when housing costs are a critical concern nationally, New Jersey provides an important model for other states.”
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First Data Now Available Following Pandemic for Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed Households | |
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Following release of the latest data, roughly one-third of New Jersey households continue to face persistent financial hardship in the years since the COVID-19 pandemic erupted, according to a new report. That figure, which totals about 1.3 million households in the Garden State, includes people living below the poverty line as well as so-called ALICE households: people who are asset-limited, income-constrained and employed.
Of New Jersey's 3,495,628 households in 2021…
- 11% earned below the Federal Poverty Level (FPL)
- 26% were ALICE, in households that earned above the FPL but not enough to afford the basics in the communities where they live
- Together, 37% of households in New Jersey were below the ALICE Threshold (poverty + ALICE divided by total households)
While the COVID-19 pandemic brought employment shifts, health struggles, and school/business closures in 2021, it also spurred unprecedented public assistance through pandemic relief measures. In 2019, 1,135,420 households in New Jersey were below the ALICE Threshold; by 2021, that number had changed to 1,292,430.
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Addressing Racial Equity with CDFI Funds | |
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Capital Impact Partners and Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF) (both SHA Members) joined forces to understand how nonprofits have experienced working with CDFIs – the good and the bad – as well as how some local and national CDFIs have successfully taken steps to address inequity within their own lending practices. The result is a list of five ways that CDFIs can center communities of color in their lending and investments.
The Building Blocks
- Building trust with communities
- Client service mindset that centers the needs of the community-based borrowers
- Technical assistance tailored to projects and practitioners
- Flexible capital solutions to solve problems of community-responsive organizations
- Appropriately priced capital
Each building block has examples of how other local and national CDFIs have put these ideas into practice along with guiding questions for CDFIs to consider as they explore new ways to address inequities in lending and join broader movements for racial equity.
Click here to download and read the report
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Homeless and Housing Resource Center
Coordinating Systems of Care to Provide a Comprehensive Behavioral Health Crisis Response
to Individuals Experiencing Homelessness
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This brief suggests strategies to enhance crisis care through multilevel coordination and describes practical approaches that systems of care can deploy to strengthen collaboration.
Sections include:
- Crisis Prevention and Early Mitigation
- Enhancing Crisis Response
- Ensuring Continuity Post-Crisis
- Enhancing Community Partnerships
- Opportunities for HUD Continuums of Care and Behavioral Health Systems
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DDD Updates: Temporary Service Modifications | |
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The Temporary Service Modifications document has been updated. The policy contents are unchanged from the last release outside of updating dates. This document describes how referenced service modifications will continue to be in place until six months after the Federal Public Health Emergency (PHE) ends. The Federal PHE will end on May 11, 2023, therefore, the Temporary Service Modifications will end six months later on November 7, 2023. Please plan accordingly.
Please see the below document for full detail (Please be sure to hit refresh on your browser to see the most current version)
Temporary Service Modifications
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New Jersey Opioid Recovery and Remediation Fund
Advisory Council Listening Sessions
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In addition to the input already received through the online portal, the New Jersey Opioid Recovery and Remediation Fund Advisory Council is holding listening sessions to gather public input on distributing opioid settlement funds.
New Jersey will receive at least $641 million over 18 years as part of a federal opioid settlement. The state will receive half of the funding, and the other half will be provided to participating county and local governments.
Register to testify here: https://bit.ly/3oloFUD
THURSDAY, MAY 4 (5-7 P.M.)
Virtual: Link will be sent after registering
MONDAY, MAY 22 (1 – 3 P.M.)
Central Jersey
Mercer County Community College
Roma Bank Auditorium
Conference Center
1200 Old Trenton Road, West Windsor
MONDAY, JUNE 12 (10 A.M. – NOON)
South Jersey
Camden County College (Blackwood)
CIM Auditorium
200 College Road, Blackwood
THURSDAY, JUNE 22 (11 A.M. – 1 P.M.)
North Jersey
Essex County College
Clara E. Dasher Student Center
303 University Avenue, Newark
THURSDAY, JULY 20 (11 A.M. – 1 P.M.)
Virtual: Link will be sent after registering
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NLIHC: Eviction Record Sealing and Expungement Toolkit | |
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NLIHC released a new “Eviction Record Sealing and Expungement Toolkit.” The result of a collaborative effort by members of NLIHC’s 2022-2023 End Rental Arrears to Stop Evictions (ERASE) Project Cohort, the new resource provides information about eviction record sealing and expungement protections nationwide, surveying record sealing and expungement legislation that is currently in place, identifying the core components of existing protections, and making recommendations for lawmakers developing new eviction record sealing and expungement protections in their jurisdictions.
Though varying according to state and local contexts, eviction record sealing and expungement protections are generally enacted to ensure that eviction filings do not impact the ability of tenants to secure stable housing. The new toolkit brings together a wide range of information about the status and impact of evictions in the U.S. and existing eviction record sealing and expungement policies, as well as answers to frequently asked questions.
As the toolkit shows, eviction filings can result in lasting and sometimes permanent consequences for individuals, especially for members of low-income and marginalized renter groups. Even in cases where an eviction judgement does not result in displacement for a tenant, the mere presence of an eviction on a tenant’s public record, especially as it appears in their credit history, can prevent a tenant from securing safe, stable, accessible, and affordable housing long into the future. For members of low-income and marginalized renter groups in particular, the effects can be detrimental to aspects of life well beyond housing, impacting their ability to access reliable transportation, quality schools, and well-paying employment.
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HUD Shares LGBTQIA+ Fair Housing Toolkit | |
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The goal of the LGBTQIA+ Fair Housing Toolkit is to educate housing providers, tenants, applicants and other housing consumers on LGBTQIA+ fair housing protections to advance housing equity for LGBTQIA+ individuals.
This toolkit:
- Provides an overview of key fair housing laws, regulations, and executive orders related to LGBTQIA+ protections
- Provides a summary of HUD’s Equal Access Rule
- Describes the specific protected housing rights of LGBTQIA+ individuals
- Introduces housing providers to culturally competent definitions and terminology used when discussing sexual orientation and gender identity
- Provides information on the ways housing providers can prevent housing discrimination in their daily operations
- Provides detailed information on how and when an individual can report housing discrimination
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Resource on Documenting
Long COVID for SSI/SSDI Applications
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DCM Associates Offering Discounts
to SHA Members In 2023
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In addition to DCM Associates' Executive Nonprofit Leadership Search Services – all members of SHA will receive a $100 discount off the following items below from DCM's Institute for Transformational Nonprofit Leadership & Board Performance. Members can email Joseph Christensen to get the discount opportunity.
- Executive Leadership & Board Governance Online Assessment Survey
- Annual CEO Performance Evaluation – which includes a CEO Self-Evaluation survey too.
- Annual Leadership Team Member Performance Evaluation – when purchasing the already discounted rate for six team members. – these also include a self-evaluation survey
- Either or both Online Courses – How to Become a High Performing Nonprofit Board and/or How to Become a High Performing Nonprofit Executive Leadership Team
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The Fall Certificate Program for Transformational Nonprofit Emerging Leadership Certificate and/or the Nonprofit Board Governance Certificate
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Resources & Virtual Forums | |
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CSH 2023 Community Housing Asset Mapping:
A Health Center Learning Collaborative
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Are you interested in learning more about housing and the homeless response system in your community?
Join CSH's 2023 Housing Asset Mapping Learning Collaborative to learn what resources are available to you and your patients, how to navigate the housing system and learn from national best practices in health and housing partnerships.
Through a series of virtual sessions and peer discussion, the Community Housing Asset Mapping Learning Collaborative will serve as a forum for health centers to gain knowledge, exchange expertise and solutions to challenges related to accessing housing resources for homeless, at-risk of homeless patients, and vulnerable patients. You will learn about local housing resources and systems that support those with housing needs in a community; different housing models and which best support patients based on their needs, and how to create needed health and housing partnerships to support patients.
Expected Outcomes/Learning Objectives for Participants:
- Increased understanding of how the homeless response system is structured.
- Build awareness of federal, state, and local housing programs, eligibility, and how to access them.
- Develop an asset map of local housing resources and programs.
- Discuss levels of health and housing partnerships that the health center can engage in.
Click here to apply
Session Dates & Overview:
Wednesday May 3, 2023
Understanding the homeless response system
Wednesday May 10, 2023
Rental subsidy programs and resources for special populations
Wednesday May 17, 2023
Housing and service models
Wednesday May 24, 2023
Beyond Mapping: Strategies for broader housing solutions
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Older Adult Mental Health Awareness Day Symposium | |
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The National Council on Aging, in collaboration with the U.S. Administration for Community Living, the Health Resources and Services Administration, and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, will host the 6th Annual Older Adult Mental Health Awareness Day Symposium on Thursday, May 11, 2023, from 10:00a.m. – 5:00p.m. ET. This all-day, virtual event is free and will feature several sessions on how to best meet the mental health needs of older adults.
For more information or to register, please visit the event page.
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Person-Centered Life Planning:
Securing the Future for People with Disabilities
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May 16, 2023 | 06:30 PM ET
The purpose of this workshop is to educate families who have a loved one with a significant disability about the importance of planning for the individual’s future support. Planned Lifetime Assistance Network of NJ (PLAN/NJ), a SHA Member, will guide families in this legal and estate planning and life-long support process to answer the question, “Who will care for my loved one when I am gone?”
Description: This session will address future planning issues such as independent living supports; estate planning, legal and financial protections. Topics include how to implement a future life plan for people with disabilities, Guardianship and Supported Decision Making, Special Needs Trusts, and ABLE accounts. Handouts will be provided to families to highlight the topics of the session.
Our presenter will be: Jason Miller, Director of Social Services, Planned Lifetime Assistance Network of NJ (PLAN/NJ)
***Multilingual live captioning is available in this meeting. For the list of available languages, please go to: www.wordly.ai/language-interpretation.***
Click here to register for this webinar
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