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39th (2025) Program Year ESG
Department of Housing and Community Development
Monica Brown (x1617)
Revised
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Authorizing the Mayor to accept, deposit, appropriate, and expend the Emergency Solutions Grant in the amount of $627,043 from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to fund Emergency Solutions Grant Program activities; authorizing submission of the 2025-2029 Consolidated Plan and the 2025-2026 Annual Action Plan to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development; and declaring an emergency.
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SUMMARY & BACKGROUND:
The City of Toledo (COT) receives from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) a designated Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG) amount annually, as an entitlement city and participating jurisdiction, for the purpose of ending homelessness in Toledo. The city's receipt and acceptance of the ESG grant amount requires compliance with HUD regulations, directives, and guidelines, as well as, pursuant to the HUD approved Five-Year Consolidated Plan for the City of Toledo. Specifically, the Consolidated Plan which the COT must follow is in effect from 2025 through 2030.
The city must submit an Annual Action Plan each year within the respective five-year period in order to continue to receive the annual ESG allocation from HUD. In the Five-Year Consolidated Plan, as well as, the 2025-2026 Action Plan, one of nine priorities is "ending homelessness". The city will partner and collaborate with the HUD designated Continuum of Care (CoC) entity for Toledo (and Lucas County), the Toledo Lucas County Homelessness Board (TLCHB), in addressing the goal of ending homelessness in the community The TLCHB as the HUD designated CoC entity, coordinates the response (e.g., rapid re-housing), the resources (e.g., leveraging of several funding sources), and the responsibility (e.g., community focus/representation) for ending homelessness in the Toledo community.
This Ordinance is to authorize the mayo...
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