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Output Indicators: <br />I - 10D% of all County residents have adequate indoor plumbing (Orange CountyiChapel Hill) <br />PPWit 1_4 — Low - income renters <80% AMl that are potenUal homebuyers <br />Strategies: <br />- Provide down- payment and closing cost assistance to qualified homebuyers <br />- Provide homebuyer education and counseling with an emphasis on credit <br />- Provide acquisition, infrastructure, predevelopment and/or construction funding to eligible non- <br />profits and for - profits to develop affordable housing opportunities <br />- Establish homeownership program to assist existing Section S recipients <br />Output Indicators: <br />- 75 additional lower income homebuy ers (Orange Count ICha el Hill <br />Priori 1.5 — Eliminate barriers to affordable housing <br />Strategies: <br />- Challenge and encourage non - profit and for -profit affordable housing providers to share resources <br />(Orange County/Chapel Hill <br />and collaborate <br />at-risk youth <br />- Seek legislation that would require all local governments to require new residential and commercial <br />- Promote and make public service funds available to agencies that serve identified special popula- <br />developers in the County and Tovins seeking zoning approval and /or permits to contain at least <br />tions <br />15% affordable units in residential projects <br />- Partner with other funding agencies to encourage the development of transitional housing (SRO s, <br />- Declare 2006 4The Year of Affordable Housing" and implement a public education that defines af- <br />group homes) that is service- enriched <br />fordable housing <br />- Continue to strengthen partnership with local service providers <br />- Utilize equity sharing and community land trust concepts to limit the dramatic escalation of housing <br />- Support applications for federal supportive housing funds <br />costs <br />Output Indicators: <br />- 1 G units of new affordable housing in mixed income developments (Orange CountyfChapel Hill) <br />- Increased awareness of barriers to affordable housing (Orange Count ?Cha el Hill's <br />Goal 2 — Provide Housina and Services for Populations with Soecial Needs <br />Priori 2. f — Service-enriched transitional housing for homeless persons with special needs <br />Strategies; <br />- Promote and make public service funds available to homeless agencies that operate emergency <br />shelters <br />- Partner with other funding agencies to encourage the development of transitional housing (SRO s, <br />groups homes) that is service- enriched <br />- Continue to strengthen partnership with the local Continuum of Care <br />- Provide property acquisition funding to eligible non -profits and for -profits to develop transitional <br />housing <br />Output Indicators: <br />- Provide financial assistance to support the construction of a residential center for homeless men <br />(Orange County/Chapel Hill <br />Priority 21 — Continuum of services for special populadons includinq older adults, disabled, mentally RI, persons with AIDS and <br />at-risk youth <br />Strategies: <br />- Promote and make public service funds available to agencies that serve identified special popula- <br />tions <br />- Partner with other funding agencies to encourage the development of transitional housing (SRO s, <br />group homes) that is service- enriched <br />- Continue to strengthen partnership with local service providers <br />- Support applications for federal supportive housing funds <br />- Provide property acquisition funding to eligible non-profits and for-profits, to develop permanent <br />7 of 8 <br />