Unspent HOME Funds Returned to HUD

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Unspent HOME Funds Returned to HUD, Information Bulletin #215 (7/07)

In the past seven years, nearly $17 million dollars from the HOME
Investment Partnership program was returned to HUD for failure of a
participating jurisdiction to meet the statutory two-year commitment
requirement. That is, each year HUD allocates HOME funds. Recipients,
state and local participating jurisdictions, must commit how these funds
will be actually spent within two years. If this requirement is not
satisfied, the uncommitted HOME funds must be returned to HUD as and they
are lost by the participating jurisdiction.

As was explained in recent Information Bulletins, HOME funds can be used
as Tenant Based Rental Assistance grants for low income persons. These are
like housing vouchers. Given the desperate need for housing vouchers, it
is quite amazing and depressing that the following jurisdictions, rather
than allocate the funds as Tenant Based Rental Assistance, returned these
HOME funds because the jurisdiction did not commit them to TBRA grants.

Here are the jurisdictions and the amount of HOME funds lost:

DOWNEY CA $38,700.00
FORT BEND COUNTY TX $149,732.00
JEFFERSON PARISH CONSORTIUM LA $15,497.59
SUMTER COUNTY CONSORTIUM SC $136,297.50
WATERBURY CT $95,484.00
EAST CLEVELAND OH $28,956.00
FORT BEND COUNTY TX $266,023.87
MODESTO CA $292,298.95
PASADENA TX $475,240.00
SHREVEPORT LA $353,655.04
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA DC $1,947,585.00
JOHNSTOWN PA $3,431.00
MILWAUKEE WI $347,000.00
ROSEMEAD CA $172,550.00
VALLEJO CA $322,289.00
ROSEMEAD CA $65,550.00
ROSEMEAD CA $67,200.00
NORWALK CA $94,900.00
NORWALK CA $37,273.00
MILWAUKEE WI $157.00
MUSKEGON MI $437,657.92
ROSEMEAD CA $339,200.00
HATTIESBURG MS $69,846.00
HATTIESBURG MS $500.00
FORT BEND COUNTY TX $41,853.00
EL CAJON CA $14,104.25
BALDWIN PARK CA $140,449.92
BALDWIN PARK CA $78,358.08
ATLANTIC CITY NJ $119,997.00
ADAMS COUNTY CONSORTIUM CO $79,191.00
NORWALK CA $16,000.00
INGLEWOOD CA $149,656.08
PARAMOUNT CITY CA $106,504.95
BRIDGEPORT CT $140,432.00
BRIDGEPORT CT $250,000.00
ALLENTOWN PA $114,460.60
SAN ANGELO TX $37,952.22
NORTH LITTLE ROCK AR $31,008.70
ELIZABETH NJ $206,119.00
SAN ANGELO TX $151,178.78
MONTEREY PARK CA $113,800.00
IRVINGTON TOWNSHIP NJ $236,609.00
WHITTIER CA $64,193.60
HATTIESBURG MS $70,346.00
COMPTON CA $162,332.00
HAWTHORNE CA $24,125.80
BUFFALO NY $311,053.71
LOUISIANA LA $2,052,579.00
MAYAGUEZ PR $779,470.00
TYLER TX $35,704.00
LYNWOOD CA $342,880.00
LYNWOOD CA $342,880.50
EAST ORANGE NJ $116,607.52
LAKE CHARLES LA $105,311.00
ARECIBO PR $289,719.00
PATERSON NJ $1,226,610.00
NORWALK CA $85,583.48
FLINT MI $155,985.00
HUNTINGTON BEACH CA $91,200.00
GLENDALE CA $103,995.00
NEWARK NJ $833,309.00
GUAYNABO PR $31,441.00
EAST ORANGE NJ $258,912.00
PONCE PR $422,332.00
PASSAIC NJ $58,501.00
HUNTINGTON BEACH CA $291,900.00
HUNTINGTON BEACH CA $102,750.00
HUNTINGTON BEACH CA $89,550.00
TARRANT COUNTY CONSORTIUM TX $9,679.00
HUNTINGTON BEACH CA $113,700.00
HUNTINGTON BEACH CA $90,800.00
HUNTINGTON BEACH CA $95,700.00
TAMPA FL $175,873.00

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