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R 3 What housia Or o rams will be available? * HOME Program * HOPE I (Public Housing Homeownership) Program * HOPE II (Homeownership of Multifamily Units) Program * HOPE III (Homeownership of Single Family Units) Program * Low-Income Housing Preservation Program * Shelter Plus Care Program * Supportive Housing for the Elderly Program (Old Section 202 Elderly Program) * Supportive Housing for Persons with Disabilities (Section all) Program * Emergency Shelter Grant Program * Supplemental Assistance for Facilities to Assist the Homeless (SAFAH) Program * Transitional Housing Program When will funds be available? Congress is expected to provide funds to implement the Act in October, 1991. What local lannia is re fired? In order to direct funding for any of the above programs, local jurisdictions must prepare a Comprehensive Housing Affordability Strategy (CHAS) . The CHAS is a comprehensive planning document that identifies a jurisdiction's overall needs for affordable and supportive housing and outlines a five year strategy to address those needs. The five parts of the CHAS are: 1) the Needs Assessment, 2) Market and Inventory Conditions, 3)Strategies, 4)Resources, and 5) Implementation. Specifically, the CHAS must include the following statutory elements: 1. A description of housing needs; 2. The nature and extent of homelessness; 3. Market characteristics; 4 . The effect of public policies on housing affordability and availability; 5. The public and private structures that will be used to implement proposed strategies; 6. Plans for cooperation between state and local bodies; 7. A description of public housing inventory; S. Available resources; 9. Plans for leveraging local resources with federal dollars; 10. State coordination of Tax Credits; 11. Tenant management/ownership of public housing; 12. Local monitoring of authorized activities and ensuring long term compliance with provisions of NAHA;