# Presentation: 853243

## Blending Resources and Strategic Partnerships

- Ann V. Denton
- Advocates for Human Potential
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## Blending Resources and Strategic Partnerships

- Once you have identified a need for affordable housing, and identified in a general way the available resources for housing, you must decide on a workable strategy for specific projects.
- How to decide on that strategy?

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## Blending Resources and Strategic Partnerships

- Housing development vs. access to existing housing
- Your local strategy should be responsive to market needs.
- For most communities, good strategic plans call for both strategies.

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## Blending Resources and Strategic Partnerships

- Housing Development can be good in markets that have very high occupancy rates in existing housing.

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## Blending Resources and Strategic Partnerships

- Getting access to existing housing works in markets with a good supply of housing stock or where there is a relatively high vacancy rate in existing housing.

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## Blending Resources and Strategic Partnerships

- How to decide the best strategy for your community?

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- Pros of Housing Development
- May be the only approach in tight housing markets
- Provides significant degree of control over the project development and implementation
- Multiple funding streams support housing development

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- Cons of Housing Development
- Takes a long time from project design to implementation
- May result in undesirable concentration of households either by income or disability

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- Pros of Accessing Existing Housing
- Quick
- Relatively easy to administer
- Most often results in scattered-site or integrated housing

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- Cons of Accessing Existing Housing
- Difficult to do in markets with high occupancy rates
- Difficult to do in markets with poor or little housing stock
- Scattered sites more challenging for service provision

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## Blending Resources and Strategic Partnerships

- The best advice for success in either strategy is the development of strategic partnerships.

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## Blending Resources and Strategic Partnerships

- Partnerships focused on housing for people with serious mental illness have taken many forms, including:
- Service providers manage or develop housing
- Advocacy groups manage or develop housing
- Parents develop housing
- Consumers manage or develop housing
- Nonprofit sponsors develop housing
- For-profit companies develop housing

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## Blending Resources and Strategic Partnerships

- Your goal will help determine the structure of any project.
- For example, if you wish to operate a rental subsidy program, you might seek out a public housing authority (PHA) as a partner. The PHA could take on the tasks of screening participants for eligibility and inspecting units for basic safety and adequacy. The provider, self-advocates, or family members would recruit participants and provide day-to-day supports and services to people served in the program.

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## Blending Resources and Strategic Partnerships

- Or, if you wish to develop apartments, you might need:
- A Community Development Corporation to manage the technical aspects of development, including construction oversight
- A property management company to manage the day-to-day operations (rent collection, repair, and maintenance)

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## Blending Resources and Strategic Partnerships

- A service provider to provide in-home and offsite services and supports for residents in need of such services
- An organization to recruit tenants and provide community wide case management as desired by tenants.

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## Blending Resources and Strategic Partnerships

- Community Housing Development Organizations (CHDOs) are entities established according to guidelines developed by the Federal Department of Housing and Urban Development.
- CHDOs can be neighborhood specific, or they can serve a particular population, such as people with disabilities.

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## Blending Resources and Strategic Partnerships

- Every strategic partnership is different, based on local need and the personalities and organizational agendas involved.
- If you’ve seen one, you’ve seen one!

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## Blending Resources and Strategic Partnerships

- Types of strategic partnerships:
- Service provider spins off a CHDO to undertake housing development
- Consumer group partners with nonprofit developer to build small apartment complex

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## Blending Resources and Strategic Partnerships

- Types of strategic partnerships:
- Homeless coalition creates nonprofit organization to manage a service campus
- Domestic violence shelter partners with banks and for-profit developer to build transitional housing for shelter graduates

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## Blending Resources and Strategic Partnerships

- Types of strategic partnerships:
- A NAMI affiliate works with existing community groups to develop three Section 811 projects
- Service provider and local government create a rental subsidy program serving a specific target population

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## Blending Resources and Strategic Partnerships

- Types of strategic partnerships:
- Church group creates CDC to develop a full menu of housing options for users of their emergency assistance programs, including rental subsidies and transitional apartments

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## Blending Resources and Strategic Partnerships

- Types of strategic partnerships:
- Consumer group works with the national Home of Your Own program to create home ownership opportunities for people on SSI
- CDC develops 100 units and seeks out a service provider to recruit up to 20 people with mental illness who have rental subsidies to lease units

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## Blending Resources and Strategic Partnerships

- Types of strategic partnerships:
- Tax credit developer works with a housing authority to identify households with subsidies that can help meet tax credit requirements for low-income housing

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