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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMINUTES - 08041987 - 1.58 HOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE COUNTY OF;CONTRA COSTA TO: BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS DATE: July 21, 1987 FROM: cc: Perfecto Villarreal , Executive Director SUBJECT: HOUSING ALLIANCE/PACIFIC COMMUNITY SERVICES, INC. PROPOSAL FOR EVICTION PREVENTION PROGRAM I . RECOMMENDED ACTION: Approve Eviction Prevention Demonstration Program proposed by the Housing Alliance of Contra Costa County and Pacific Community Services, Inc. ; authorize the Executive Director of the Housing Authority to enter into an agreement with the Housing Alliance and Pacific Community Services, Inc. ; and, allocate $7470 from Housing Authority Local Management Funds to finance this program, as recommended by the Advisory Housing Commission. II . FINANCIAL IMPACT: The total program cost of $7470 would be allocated from Housing Authority Local Management Funds. III. REASONS FOR RECOMMENDATION/BACKGROUND: Housing Authority staff has met with representatives of the Housing Alliance of Contra Costa County and Pacific Community Services, Inc. to discuss a proposed six month demonstration program whose goal would be to prevent evictions in public housing caused by non-payment of rent. As the Housing Alliance services Central and West County and the Pacific Community Services, Inc. services East County, the two agencies have come together in a joint venture to administer this proposed six month demonstration program. The Housing Alliance and Pacific Community Services, Inc. have presented the Housing Authority with a proposal to conduct an eviction prevention program for a six month period at the following three public housing developments: 1. Las Deltas, North Richmond; 2. Bayo Vista, Rodeo; and, 3. El Pueblo, Pittsburg. A total of 30 families who have a poor rent payment history and are in danger of being evicted from public housing would be assisted through this demonstration program. The cost for the program would be $7470. The Housing Alliance of Contra Costa County is a HUD-certified counselling agency. It provides extensive landlord-tenant counselling, as well as mortgage default counselling. It serves as a Fair Housing Agency for Contra Costa /County and CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT: YES SIGNATURE: RECOMMENDATION OF EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR RECOMMENDA ON OF BOARD COMMITTEE APPROVE OTHER SIGNATURE(S) ACTION OF BOARD ON August 4-, .19$:7 APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED _W_ OTHER VOTE OF COMMISSIONERS X_ _._ UNANIMOUS (ABSENT ) I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS A TRUE AND AYES: NOES: CORRECT COPY OF AN ACTION TAKEN AND ABSENT: ABSTAIN: ENTERED ON THE MINUTES OF THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ON THE DATE SHOWN. August 4 , 1987 CC: County Administrator ATTESTED Housing Authority Phil Batchelor, Clerk of the Board of Commissioners M382/7-e8 BY , DEPUTY Board of Commissioners July 21, 1987 Page -2- has been in existence for eleven years. The Executive Director of the Housing Alliance is Ms. Barbara Sanders. Barbara acquired experience as a public housing manager when she worked for the Oakland Housing Authority. The housing counsellor who would work on this project with Barbara previously worked as a public housing manager for a housing authority in Minnesota. Pacific Community Sevices, Inc. is a non-profit organization which has effectively addressed the needs of East Contra Costa County residents for over fifteen years. This agency has developed expertise in working with families faced with any number of housing crisis situations which include but are not limited to evictions, rental/mortgage delinquencies, tenant/landlord conflicts and homelessness. After discussing the operation of the eviction prevention program, at its Regular Meeting on Monday, July 20, 1987, the Advisory Housing Commission voted to recommend approval of the Eviction Prevention Demonstration Program described by the Housing Alliance of Contra Costa County and Pacific Community Services, Inc. and to recommend authorizing the Executive Director of the Housing Authority to enter into an agreement with the Housing Alliance and Pacific Community Services, Inc. to implement the program at a cost of $7470 to be funded by the Local Management Fund. IV. CONSEQUENCES OF NEGATIVE ACTION: Should the Board of Commissioners fail to respond positively to this request, some 30 families who demonstrate chronic late payment tendencies would continue the expensive and time consuming habit of having eviction notices issued and served by the Housing Authority on a monthly basis.