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Memorandum, Availability of Waivers of Community Planning and Development Grant Program and Consolidated Plan Requirements to Prevent the Spread of COVID-19 and Mitigate Economic Impacts Caused by COVID-19

Availability of Waivers of CPD Grant Program and Consolidated Plan Requirements to Prevent the Spread of COVID-19 and Mitigate Economic Impacts Caused by COVID-19

Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Community Planning and Development (John Gibbs, Acting Assistant Secretary) · United States (HUD Community Planning and Development grantees: Continuum of Care, Emergency Solutions Grants, HOPWA, CDBG, HOME) (Federal)

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Jurisdiction
United States (HUD Community Planning and Development grantees: Continuum of Care, Emergency Solutions Grants, HOPWA, CDBG, HOME)
Level
Federal
Authority
24 C.F.R. 5.110 and 91.600; 24 C.F.R. 576.107, 576.401, 576.106, 578.75, 578.103; McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act
Issued
2020-03-31 Mar. 31, 2020
Effective
2020-03-31 (each recipient may use a waiver two days after notifying its CPD Field Office) (read as 2020-03-31)
End
Waiver periods stated per item (six months to one year). (read as 2021-03-31)
In force
Mar. 31, 2020 to Mar. 31, 2021
Quarters
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q1
Limitation types
Workplace rulesOther
Addressees
  • ESG and CoC recipients and subrecipients (shelter, outreach, rapid re-housing and homelessness-prevention providers)
Functions reached
  • FD shelters and homelessness prevention (operating rules rewritten)
  • FS case management (remote; frequency waived)
  • OP grant administration and HMIS
  • CB clients served remotely
  • PY funder conditions
Collection
Social Assistance and Community Services SEC-24

Operative words

This memorandum explains the availability of waivers of certain regulatory requirements... for the following CPD programs:... Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG); and Continuum of Care (CoC).... 11. Re-evaluations for Homelessness Prevention Assistance... The required frequency of re-evaluations for homelessness prevention [is waived] so long as the recipient or subrecipient conducts the required re-evaluations not less than once every 6 months. 12. Housing Stability Case Management... [24 CFR 576.401(e) monthly case management requirement waived]... The condition that the recipient must be the HMIS Lead to pay costs under 24 CFR 576.102(a)(2) is waived... Provisions that are not specifically waived remain in full effect.

Enforcement

Grant conditions; recipients must document justification and notify the CPD Field Office two days before use

Notes

The first of the HUD 'mega-waiver' memoranda; it waived CoC and ESG rules on FMR limits, disability documentation, monthly case management, initial and annual habitability inspections, one-year leases and the 30-day public-comment period so that shelters and rapid re-housing providers could operate under distancing. It is the federal operating charter of the shelter function in Q2 2020.

Retrieval note

Tool JSON: {"method":"live-pdf","bytes":133385}. ESG items 10-13 at pp. 351-440 of the layout text).

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