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Goal: Existing affordable housing, whether subsidized or
not, is preserved and no residents live in substandard conditions.
Five-Year Focus:
- Adopt a flexible rehab sub-code that provides clear guidelines for each
category of rehabilitation, increases the predictability for property owners
and reduces the cost of rehabilitation.
- Evaluate Housing Preservation and Replacement ordinance to determine if it
impedes new housing development or housing rehabilitation.
- Increase the use of tax sales of delinquent properties for fairness to
other taxpayers and to create housing rehabilitation opportunities.
- Encourage and support the Vermont Housing Finance Agency in an effort to
secure voluntary affordability preservation agreements for those privately
owned Section 8 and Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) developments
without such protections.
- Enact an ordinance that requires every rental
property placed on the market for sale to be inspected for Minimum Housing
Code compliance prior to sale.
- Promote use of the federal Rehabilitation Investment Tax Credit program
among Burlington property owners.
- Continue to operate and augment the resources for a rehabilitation program
for privately owned rental housing (RePAIR).
- Ask the Vermont Commissioner of Banking, Insurance and Health Care Access
to investigate rapidly escalating insurance costs for multi-family rental
property and housing designed for people with special needs or to explore
more affordable alternatives to private-sector insurance.
- Support a statewide rental housing inspection program for communities that
do not already have a local inspection program, designed so as to address
any potential loss of housing through the provision of relocation benefits
for tenants by enforcement actions, and financial resources to help property
owners bring their units up to code or to build replacement units.
- Rehabilitate sub-standard housing through loans and grants provided by the
City's Home Improvement Program to owner-occupants of 1 to 4 unit
buildings.
- Support the housing repair and rehabilitation work of nonprofit housing
organizations.
The City will fund the following projects and programs with CDBG and HOME funds in program year 2007 to further
the priority of preserving and upgrading the existing housing stock:
| Project Title
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Relation to Consolidated Plan
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CDBG Funds Budgeted |
HOME Funds Budgeted |
Other Funds Budgeted |
Projected Accomplishments |
| Burlington Housing Initiatives Program |
Sliding scale loans for emergency home repairs,
grants for residential accessibility modifications, free paint,
special projects grants for homeless shelters, down payment
assistance, lead paint hazard reduction, technical and funding support for
housing production and rehabilitation |
$100,510 |
$503,314 |
$5,302,410 |
Provide technical / financial assistance to rehab
6 apartments through RePAIR |
| Provide emergency loans for
8
units |
| Provide CDBG
and HOME loans for homeowner rehab of 18 units |
| Provide paint grants for
20 units |
| Reduce lead hazards in
20 units |
| Pursue policy-related implementation strategies
for this priority |
| Champlain Housing
Trust |
Organizational support for program delivery costs and for
project costs of
nonprofit housing developers |
$95,492 |
$493,000 |
$18,367,860 |
Complete the renovation
of 28 scattered site affordable rental units on or around North St. |
| Refinance and renovate 49
scattered site affordable rentals in the Old North End |
| Complete reconstruction,
marketing and sale of a single-family home on Crowley St. |
| YouthBuild |
Build and rehabilitate affordable housing while
training and educating at-risk and out-of-school youth |
$19,500 |
$60,000 |
$113,725 |
Reconstruct a single family home
at 33 Lafountain Street |
| Train 13 youth |
Page last updated
May 21, 2007
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