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The Vermont Coalition to End Homelessness seeks to ensure that people living in Vermont have a safe, stable, affordable home, and — if homelessness does occur — it is brief, rare, and non-recurring and those experiencing homelessness are treated with dignity and respect.

VOTE Results: Approved (Questions/Concerns can continue to be sent to Andrea until August 12, 2019, and brought to the VCEH Executive Team)

NOFA Policies & Ranking Procedures FY19 NOFA Scoring Sheets
YES 17 13
NO 0 3
Abstain 7 6
No Reply 2 2

Final Documents:

Vote As Presented:

Proposed Changes:

  • NOFA Policies & Ranking Procedures
    1. Committee Member change from Brooke Jenkins from Good Samaritan Haven to Rob Farrell
  • Scoring Sheets (all changes are highlighted in red)
    1. New Applications:
      1. Decreased Points for Permanent Supportive Housing from 20 to 15 to reflect local CoC Priorities
    2. Renewal Applications
      1. Decreased Points for Permanent Supportive Housing from 20 to 15 to reflect local CoC Priorities
      2. Increased Point value for Part C. Performance from 48 to 58 to reflect HUDs increase in scoring
      3. Added “at exit” to the employment & non-employment to reflect change in HUDs criteria
      4. Adjusted the percentages for these to reflect this change in looking at the data to ensure they are achievable benchmarks.
      5. Decreased points for Part D. Target Population from 20 to 10 to give more points to Part C. Performance
      6. Moved category ‘youth’ down due to new Youth Homeless Development Program money for the CoC

Discussion that happened at the meeting regarding these changes: Decreased Points for Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH) from 20 to 15 to reflect local CoC Priorities

  1. Rapid Rehousing (RRH) is easier than Shelter + Care to match up to persons as there is a lower threshold.
  2. Service availability as well as the inability to ‘lease up’ for Rapid Rehousing is lacking making it hard to use currently.

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