NOTICE OF SUBSTANTIAL AMENDMENT TO THE CITY OF LANSING ACTION PLAN FY2021 for HOME ARP ALLOCATION PLAN

The City of Lansing is submitting a substantial amendment to its HOME ARP Allocation Plan.

The original HOME ARP Substantial Amendment to the City of Lansing FY2021 Action Plan was submitted to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development on December 6. 2022 and approved by HUD on February 21, 2023. 

The City of Lansing is requesting HUD’s approval of the substantial amendment.  This substantial amendment will increase the amount of funding for the Development of Rental Housing from $1,539,251.00 to $2,102,301.00. This amendment will allow the city to provide needed gap funding for Hillsdale Place: a 40-unit rental development that will provide 20 units of permanent supportive housing to qualifying populations per Lansing’s HOME ARP Allocation Plan.

This change to the HOME ARP budget results in a 100% reduction in the amount of HOME ARP funding set aside for Acquisition and Development of Non-Congregate Shelters, from $500,000.00 to $0.00.  Additionally, the amount of HOME ARP allocated for Supportive Services will be reduced from $300,000.00 to $264,458.00.

This substantial amendment also adds a preference for households who are chronically homeless and who meet at least one of the definitions of the qualifying populations.  A preference permits an eligible applicant that qualifies for a participating jurisdiction adopted preference to be selected for HOME-ARP assistance before another eligible applicant that does not qualify for a preference.

The City of Lansing followed its citizen participation process in terms of developing the substantial amendment which requires a 30-day comment period.

The comment period for the substantial amendment will commence at 8:00 a.m. on June 13, 2024 and expire at 5:00 p.m. July 15, 2024. 

The proposed substantial amendment can be found on the Development office website at www.lansingmi.gov/development. A summary of the comments received will be submitted to the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) no later than July 17, 2024.

For further information regarding this notice or if you have comments, please contact: Doris Witherspoon, Senior Planner, with the City of Lansing Department of Economic Development and Planning, 316 North Capitol, Suite D-1, Lansing Michigan 48933-1236. doris.witherspoon@lansingmi.gov or (517) 483-4063.

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