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6 • Reduce the number of owner-occupied and rental housing units without indoor plumbing. • Provide assistance to households at less than 80 percent of MFi to connect to existing public water and sewer systems. • Facilitate the construction of up to 50 now units of rental housing that is affordable to very low and low-income families. • Create transitional housing units for homeless individuals. Nonhousing Community DwWopment Priorities The Consolidated Plan for Orange County identified the following community development priorities: • Provide economic development opportunities to low-and moderate-income citizens In Chapel HUI. • Revitalize the business areas serving low-income neighborhoods of Chapel Hill. Antipoverty Strategy The Joint Orange Chatham Community Action Agency designed the county's antipoverty strategy. This strategy seeks to establish and coordinate linkages between governmental and other social service programs to facilitate the effective delivery of services to low-income individuals.The strategy includes the right of lower income residents to do the following: • Secure and retain meaningful employment. • Attain an adequate education. • Make better use of available income. • Obtain and maintain adequate housing and a suitable living environment. • Obtain emergency assistance to meet immediate and urgent family needs. • Remove obstacles that block the achievement of self-sufficiency. • Achieve greater participation in the affairs of the community. Coordirartlon of the Strs"le Plan Through the Orange Community Housing Corporation, Orange County, Chapel Hip, Carrboro, and Hillsborough work in collaboration to implement the plan, as follows: • The Chapel HE Planning Department administers the CDBG program. • The Orange County Housing and Community Development Department administers the Section 8 program and serves as the lead agency for the Orange County HOME Consortium,which includes Orange County. Carrboro. Chapel Hilt, and Hillsborough. • The Chapel Hilt Department of Housing operates public housing in Chapel Hilt and Carrboro.