§ 15A-104. Consolidated Housing and Community Development Plan — content.

(a)

The Five-Year Consolidated Housing and Community Development Plan shall include, but is not limited to, the following:

(1)

A comprehensive assessment of housing and community development needs within appropriate subareas of the County (such as neighborhoods, census tracts, or other convenient statistical areas), including consideration of such factors as the distribution of residents with limited incomes (as defined by Federal regulations), over-crowded housing conditions, and substandard housing units, as well as areas of racial and ethnic concentration; and

(2)

A comprehensive strategy for meeting the neighborhood revitalization, housing, and economic development needs including:

(A)

A housing and homeless needs assessment that addresses the needs of households that are of low and moderate income, and homeless households and individuals with special needs;

(B)

A housing market analysis that describes the number and type of housing units available to persons of limited income, as well as the homeless and special needs populations;

(C)

Strategic plans for adequate housing, homeless households, persons with special needs, persons living in public housing;

(D)

Strategic plans for community development including criteria for establishing priority needs and rationale for selecting priority projects in the areas of public facilities improvements, economic development, and public service activities; and

(E)

The priorities for the use of federal entitlement funds under such programs as Community Development Block Grant, HOME Investment Partnerships, Emergency Shelter Grant and Housing for Persons with Aids, Neighborhood Stabilization Grant Program, and HUD Section 108 Loan Guarantee Program.

(3)

An identification, by name and geographical boundaries, of the areas recommended for concentrated improvement efforts, together with statements of justification for each of the areas recommended for improvement;

(4)

Legible maps that shall show such information as:

(A)

The distribution of low and moderate income households;

(B)

Extent and location of households experiencing housing cost burdens;

(C)

The location of all federal community development assistance projects and other federally-funded projects which show a coordinated use of federal funds;

(D)

Geographic targeting of federal funds in neighborhood strategy areas.

(b)

Beginning in 2015 the Five-Year Consolidated Housing and Community Development Plan shall include a Section 3 Action Plan that addresses policies and procedures for all HUD covered activities such as: (1) programs that may include multiple contracts, contacts with parts of HUD funding of public or residential construction projects; (2) services and professional services activities generated by construction, such as roads, sewers, sidewalks, community centers, etc; and (3) all public housing authority covered activities such as maintenance, development, modernization, and operations.

(CB-101-1981; CB-46-1997; CB-112-2012)