What are the Commission’s goals
and objectives for use of CDBG, HOME and FESG funding?
The County’s Consolidated Plan 2005 includes three core goals,
one each in the areas of homelessness, housing and non-housing community
development. These three goals express the County’s intentions related
to assisting extremely low-, low- and moderate-income residents. The Consolidated
Plan includes several specific objectives for each goal:
Homelessness Goal:
To promote new and existing day centers, emergency shelters, transitional
housing facilities and services that will coordinate and improve the continuum
of care system for homeless residents of Sonoma County.
Homelessness Specific Objectives:
Provide day center services to homeless persons.
Provide emergency shelter beds for homeless persons.
Provide transitional housing with supportive services to persons
leaving homeless shelters or to persons who are living “on the
streets”.
Provide supportive services, including mental health, other health
and social services, counseling, employment training, education, childcare,
parenting education, substance abuse treatment, domestic violence intervention,
self-sufficiency skills, and transportation assistance, to homeless
persons living “on the streets” or in emergency shelters.
Provide shared housing with supportive services to homeless, mentally
ill or other special needs persons.
Provide homeless prevention services to households who are at risk
of becoming homeless.
Housing Goal:
To increase the housing stock that is affordable, accessible and available
to extremely low-, low-, and moderate-income residents of Sonoma County,
including special needs subpopulations.
Housing Specific Objectives:
Develop new housing units that are affordable and available to extremely
low-, low- and moderate-income households.
Develop new housing units with appropriate supportive services that
are affordable, accessible and available to extremely low-, low- and
moderate-income special needs households.
Provide tenant-based rental subsidies to make market rate housing
units affordable to extremely low-income households.
Provide comprehensive rehabilitation loans to make needed improvements
to conventional single- and multi-family housing and mobile homes owned
and/or occupied by extremely low-, low- and moderate-income households.
Provide assistance to conventional single- and multi-family housing
and mobile homes owned and/or occupied by extremely low-, low- and moderate-income
households to complete flood and earthquake hazard mitigation measures,
to eliminate health hazards by connecting properties to public water
and/or sewer systems, and to perform access modifications for units
occupied by persons with disabilities.
Provide loans to nonprofit organizations to acquire and/or rehabilitate
existing multi-family housing that is affordable, accessible and available
to extremely low-, low- and moderate-income households.
Provide direct fair housing education and mediation services to renter
households, and to provide general fair housing information and education
to rental property owners, managers, affordable housing professionals
and others.
Non-Housing Community Development Goal:
To assist in creating and/or replacing infrastructure systems, public
facilities and non-housing services that meet the needs of the extremely
low-, low- and moderate-income residents of Sonoma County, including the
homeless and special needs subpopulations.
Non-Housing Community Development Specific Objectives:
Preserve low- and moderate-income neighborhoods and improve the quality
of neighborhood-based living, including construction or reconstruction
of storm/flood drain improvements, water and sewer improvements (connecting
water and sewer lines to new or existing affordable housing developments,
sewer mains, and rural water facilities), streets, streetlights, sidewalks,
curbs and gutters (either non-existent or in need of repair or upgrade),
and the development of parks.
Perform access modifications to public facilities and improvements,
including public parks, restrooms, and sidewalks, to meet the special
needs of the persons with disabilities and the elderly, in accordance
with the American Disabilities Act (ADA).
Provide services and activities for seniors, including the development,
rehabilitation or adaptation of buildings for use as senior centers.
Provide services and activities for youth, including the development,
rehabilitation or adaptation of buildings for use as youth or community
centers.
Facilitate economic integration and self-sufficiency for lower income
persons through self-sufficiency programs and through job training and
economic development activities to increase job opportunities.
What are the eligible uses of Community
Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds?
CDBG funds may be used for affordable housing, economic development, public
facilities and public services. See CDBG
Policies for more information.
What are the eligible uses of Federal
Emergency Shelter Grants (FESG) funds?
FESG funds may be used for emergency shelter operations, essential services
for homeless people, homeless prevention activities and conversion/renovation
of homeless shelter facilities. See FESG Policies for more information.
What are the eligible uses of HOME Investment
Partnership (HOME) funds?
HOME funds may be used to develop affordable rental housing, and for the
Sonoma County Housing Authority’s Tenant-Based Rental Assistance
program. See HOME
Policies for more information.
How has the Commission used CDBG, HOME
and FESG funds in the past?
Funds have been used for development of affordable rental and for-sale
housing, operation costs of a seasonal homeless shelter, transitional
housing, supportive services for individuals and families for job and
parenting skills, information on Fair Housing issues, homeless prevention,
rehabilitation of homes for the elderly and disabled, construction of
senior centers, renovation of community centers, and many other uses.
See the Funding Allocations charts for a
listing of the activities funded in recent years.
as established by HUD.
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