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6 e Reduce the number of owner-occupled and rental housing units without indoor plumbing • Provide assistance to households at less than 00 percent of MFI to Connect to existing public water and sewer systems. • Facilitate the construction of up to 50 new units of rental housing that is affordable to very low- and low-Income families. • Create transitional housing units for homeless individuals. Nonhousing Community Development 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 Hill. • Revitalize the business areas sewing 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.estabiish and coordinate linkages between governmental end other social service programs to Wiltate 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 fivirg environment. • Obtain emergency assistance to meet immediate and urgent family needs. • Remove obstacles that block the achievement of seff-sufficiency. • Achieve greater participation In the affairs of the community. Coordination of the Strategic Plan Through the Orange Community Housing Corporation, Orange County, Chapel Hill, Carrboro, and Hillsborough work in collaboration to implement the plan, as folkaws: • The Chapel Hill 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 H111, and Hillsborough. • The Chapel HNI Department of Housing operates public housing In Chapel Hill and Carrboro.