David Della
Jean Godden
Nick Licata
Richard McIver
Tom Rasmussen
Peter Steinbrueck
Michael
Fong, Office of Councilmember Tom Rasmussen
Traci
Ratzliff
Patricia Lee
Sara Levin
Janet Credo
Helen Welborn
Patricia McInturff, Director
Joe Valentine, Deputy Director
Michael
Look, CDBG Administrator
Sharon
Chew, CDBG Con Plan Lead
Susan
Yang-Affolter, CDBG Planner
Gary
Evans
Dave
Berrian Anne Price Kim von Henkle
Javier Pulido Alan
Painter Barbara Lewy
Sherman
Hu Al Poole Mary Shaw
Georgiana
Arnold Georgia Conti Harla Tumbleson
Katie
Hong, Director Laura
Hewitt Walker
Bill
Rumpf, Deputy Director Maureen
Kostyack
Rick Hooper
Jill Nishi, Director
Steve Johnson
Regena Bethea
Tim Rash
Ellen
Kissman, Seattle Housing Authority
Cliff
Louie, Department of Neighborhoods
Candice
Chin, Seattle Parks and Recreation
The
preparation of Seattle’s 2005-2008 Consolidated Plan was financed, in part,
through Seattle’s Community Development Block Grant Program. The Human Services Department complies with
all federal, state and local laws prohibiting discrimination. Accommodations for people with disabilities
provided upon request by calling 615-1717.
Contents
2-1 Demographic and Income Trends
Maps 1 to 14
3-125 Neighborhoods
Appendix A Allocation and Revenue Outlook
Appendix B Institutional Structure and Coordination
Appendix C Anti-Poverty Strategy
Appendix D Public Participation Plan
Appendix E Community Development Household Survey Report
Appendix F 2004 HUD Income Guidelines
Appendix G Housing Investment Areas and Downtown
Appendix H Housing Policies
Appendix I Removing Barriers to Affordable Housing
Appendix J Lead-Based Paint Hazards Strategy
Appendix K Actions to Affirmatively Further Fair Housing
Appendix L Use of HOME Funds, Including ADDI
Appendix M 2005 Housing Capital Funds and Accomplishments
Appendix N Public Housing Strategy
Appendix O Monitoring
Appendix P Neighborhood Revitalization Strategy Areas
Appendix Q Maps: OED Targeted Areas
Appendix R State of Children and Youth Report
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he Community Development Block Grant
(CDBG) is the City’s primary source for addressing the community development
needs of Seattle’s low- and moderate-income[1]
households and neighborhoods. The City
of Seattle invests in people so that all families and individuals can meet
their basic needs, share in our economic prosperity, and participate in
building a safe, healthy, educated, just and caring community.
Policies and priorities for distributing CDBG funds to community-based organizations are derived from the City’s Consolidated Plan for Housing and Community Development, which is coordinated by the Human Services Department (HSD). Allocations to community-based organizations are determined by the departments administering the particular service areas through both competitive and negotiated processes. As required by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the Consolidated Plan outlines funding policies and strategies for the Community Development Block Grant as well as for Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS (HOPWA), the HOME Investment Partnership (HOME), and Emergency Shelter Grant (ESG) funds.
National Goals
The 2005-2008 Consolidated
Plan primarily benefits low- and moderate-income persons in accordance with the
following Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) goals: Provide a suitable living environment,
provide decent housing, and expand economic opportunities. Locally, Seattle’s Consolidated Plan goals
are:
·
Provide decent and
affordable housing for low- and moderate-income households.
·
Help low-income
people meet their basic self-care and other survival needs, and improve their
social and economic well-being.
·
Promote financial independence of low- and moderate-income
residents and invest in economic development of distressed neighborhoods.
·
Prevent decay and deterioration and improve public
infrastructure such as community facilities, parks, and streets in low-income
neighborhoods.
A B O U T T H
I S P L A N
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he City of Seattle’s
Consolidated Housing and Community Development Plan is developed in response to
the requirements of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). It
serves as the plan and application for funding under four HUD formula programs: Community Development Block
Grant (CDBG), HOME Investment Partnerships (HOME), Emergency Shelter Grant
(ESG), and Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS (HOPWA).
The
purpose of Seattle’s 2005-2008 Consolidated Plan (Con Plan) is to:
Identify the demand for housing by low- and moderate-income
communities; housing cost burdens,
housing condition, and supply and demand; the extent of homelessness, needs of
special populations; health, economic and human development needs;
Describe the City’s priorities and
strategies to address housing, homelessness, economic development, and the
human development needs in a comprehensive and coordinated fashion;
Report on
specific items required by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
(HUD), such as reducing the number of families living in poverty and removing
barriers to affordable housing; and,
Outline specific
activities funded by CDBG, HOME, ESG, and HOPWA.
NOTE: The contents
of this Plan are not intended to confer any legal rights or entitlements on any
persons, groups or entities, including those named as intended recipients of
funds or as program beneficiaries. The
terms of this Plan are subject to amendment and to the effect of applicable
laws, regulations and ordinances.
Statements of numerical goals or outcomes are for the purpose of
measuring the success of programs and policies and do not impose a legal
obligation on the City to achieve the intended results. Actual funding of particular programs and
projects identified in this Plan is subject to completion of various further
actions, some of which involve discretionary determinations by the City or others. These include HUD approval of this Plan;
appropriations by the United States Congress and the City Council; reviews and
determinations under environmental and related laws; and results of bidding and
contracting processes.
How is the Plan
Structured?
The 2005-2008 Consolidated
Plan is primarily organized by seven sections:
The Introduction: provides
an overview of HUD’s goals, purpose of the plan, and describes what’s different
about the plan compared to the previous four-year plan.
The Seattle Community Profile: highlights
broad demographic data, income trends, and data on racial and ethnic
disparity. It also presents Housing
Market Analysis and the demand for housing by low- and moderate-income
persons.
The Needs Assessment: describes
the needs of Seattle’s low- and moderate-income people for housing and
community development. A variety of
data is presented here, including results of a survey used to gather input from
Seattle residents about their challenges, needs and priorities for
services. The Low-Income Households
with Housing Needs section illustrates the changes in the housing market which
includes the cost of renting and owning a home in Seattle. Special Needs Populations section presents
the housing and services needs of the homeless, older adults and persons with
functional limitations, people who have mental health or chemical dependency
issues, immigrants/refugees, victims of domestic violence, homeless youth and
young adults, and people with HIV/AIDS and their families. The child care section describes the need
for child care subsidies to support low-income working families. Economic Development presents data on the
needs for workforce development, assistance to small business and enhancing the
vitality in distressed neighborhoods.
Infrastructure presents data on the need to prevent decay and protect
our city’s public facilities and space.
The Strategies: outlines by goal, the objectives and strategies that
will address the priority housing, human services, economic and community
development needs of Seattle’s low- and moderate-income communities. This section highlights accomplishments and
performance measures for each goal.
Table of Proposed Projects: provides a detailed account of the annual use of
four federal fund sources that meet the housing, human services, economic and
community development needs of low- and moderate-income communities. This section also highlights service level
data, or outputs, for each funded activity.
The Appendices: includes the Allocation
Summary and Revenue Outlook, Coordination and Institutional Structure,
Anti-Poverty Strategy, Public Participation Plan, Survey Report, 2004 HUD
Income Guidelines, Housing Policies and Seattle Housing Authority policies.
The Glossary: contains definitions for the terms used in the
Consolidated Plan.
What’s New in the Plan?
Performance Measures
The 2005-2008
Consolidated Plan includes a new element of the strategic planning process - performance
measures for determining how well programs and services are meeting needs of
Seattle’s low- and moderate-income people.
In response to HUD requirements, the Seattle Community Development Block
Grant program took beginning steps in winter of 2004 to develop performance measures
across all departments covered by the Con Plan. This effort is part of a longer-term project to develop a
performance measurement system for monitoring and measuring the results of Seattle
Con Plan efforts to address the housing and community development needs of low-
and moderate income people in Seattle.
In the past, Seattle, like other CDBG communities, assessed its results
by counting the amount or level of service provided, such as the numbers of
service hours, people served, and housing units provided through CDBG funding. The performance measurement system will monitor
and measure progress in terms of the benefits that result from programs funded
by the Con Plan and how they impact or change people and communities.
The Seattle CDBG Performance
Measurement Development project began in the winter of 2004. The project used consultant services to
provide technical assistance to departments and lay the groundwork of
establishing a common framework for developing performance measures. The model used by the consultant, Denise
Klein, originated from the Outcome Funding approach by the Rensselaerville
Institute. CDBG lead staff from the
Office of Housing, Office for Economic Development, Department of
Neighborhoods, and the Parks Department, participated in work sessions in
February 2004 and in March, selected programs to pilot performance measures and
developed targets for each of them. The
Human Services Department did not participate in the CDBG Performance
Measurement Project because it had already made a major shift three years
before and had adopted the Rennselaerville Institute’s outcome funding approach
for its programs.
Each department selected
a program that it planned to implement during the 2005-2008 period of the
Consolidated Plan in which to pilot performance measures. The goal of each department was to create at
least one concrete result, or target, that was a specific, verifiable, and
time-bound change in the behavior or condition of an agency’s customers that
the department or subcontracting agency commit to achieving.
The target areas that
they developed are included in the Strategic Plan section of this Consolidated
Plan. They appear as one target area
for each of the four Con Plan Goals. Although
each of the Con Plan Goals includes several activities and programs, targets
have not yet been developed for each of them.
Additionally, broad outcomes that measure community-level results of
multiple CDBG activities combined, have not been developed. This work is slated to be done in future
years as part of the work to develop a performance measurement system for
Seattle CDBG. Service level numbers
that provide estimations of the level of service to be provided, are still
included in the Con Plan and can be found in the Table of Proposed Projects.
A L L O
C A T I O N O F C o n
s o l i d a t e d P l a n F u n d s
A L L O C A T I O N O F 2 0 0 5 F U N D S
2004 Community Development Funds Allocation by City Department
The
2005-2008 Consolidated Plan summarizes categories and priorities for the
distribution of approximately $16.9 million in CDBG funds (including
program income),
$4.7 million in HOME Partnership funds, $545,786 in ESG funds and $1.7 million
in HOPWA funds from HUD.
The 2005 Proposed Budget
estimates the amount of CDBG dollars anticipated by the City to be available,
appropriates these funds, and makes specific CDBG proposals for certain City
programs. The City’s 2005 revenue projections hold CDBG resources constant at
the 2004 actual award. Final CDBG program allocations are subject to the
appropriation levels set
by the U.S. Congress and
implemented by HUD.
2005 Community Development Funds Allocation by City Department
[1] For the purposes of the CDBG program, low-income includes households whose total annual income is between 0-50% of the Area Median Income. Moderate-income households are those with incomes between 51-80% of Area Median Income.