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8 <br /> Durham Tech Community College for Small Business Center—Durham Technical Community College: <br /> $70,000 <br /> This project will provide support for startup and existing entrepreneurs, with special focus on <br /> the underserved low to moderate income business community, by providing information and tools <br /> needed to develop and scale business ideas through viable, sustainable, profitable, and successful <br /> practices.Through the services provided by Durham Tech's Small Business Center(SBC), entrepreneurs <br /> receive assistance in business areas such as business planning, marketing, legal, accounting, and <br /> financial management. <br /> Affordable Housing—Home Repairs—Housing and Community Development: $120,000 <br /> This project provides funding to the Orange County Department of Housing and Community <br /> Development for assistance to low-income homeowners for urgent repairs and comprehensive housing <br /> rehabilitation.To qualify for these programs, applicants must 1) meet income eligibility restrictions; 2) <br /> own a property located in Orange County and occupy it as their primary residence; and 3) be current on <br /> the property taxes or be on an approved payment plan that is in good standing. Applications can be <br /> submitted by email, mail, or in person.These funds expanded the County's ability to finance home <br /> repairs to fix imminent threats to health and safety, provide accessibility modifications, and provide <br /> larger more comprehensive repairs to homes for homeowners to extend the usable life of their homes. <br /> Emergency Housing Assistance and Coordinator—Housing and Community Development: $1,926,357 <br /> This project supports the Orange County Emergency Housing Assistance fund and its program <br /> coordinator,which was created under the Risk Mitigation and Housing Displacement Fund to help <br /> Orange County residents with low incomes prevent eviction and homelessness and secure and maintain <br /> stable housing. Increased unemployment and underemployment due to the COVID-19 pandemic has <br /> resulted in many people being unable to pay rent and utilities. Assistance is available to households in <br /> Orange County that: (1) Earn no more than 30%of the area median income (AMI), (2) Have an urgent <br /> need for housing assistance that is related to the COVID-19 pandemic, and (3) Do not have adequate <br /> resources to cover the cost of their housing need. Eligible activities for EHA include rent, mortgage and <br /> utility payments, security deposits, application fees and other emergency housing-related expenses.The <br /> EHA Program has provided over$6 million in housing assistance to more than 1,500 Orange County <br /> residents since March 2020. <br /> Housing Locator—Housing and Community Development: $28,810 <br /> This project provides funding for 1.0 FTE Housing Locator position to provide client-level <br /> assistance in locating units for people exiting homelessness, people with Housing Choice Vouchers, and <br /> other people at risk of homelessness who contact the Housing Helpline.The position will work in <br /> coordination with the Housing Access Coordinator(HAC)to develop and maintain landlord relationships. <br /> This will allow the HAC to focus more completely on system-level landlord recruitment, which is not <br /> currently feasible due to demand for providing direct housing navigation support for the more <br /> vulnerable residents in housing search with vouchers in-hand. People are searching for units with <br /> Housing Choice Vouchers and other rental assistance without being able to locate units. As of <br /> September 2021,there are currently 170 households experiencing homelessness who are connected to <br /> service providers and in active housing search, up from an average of 102 households in 2019. <br />