 Housing Market Analysis: Homeless Facilities: |
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| 1. Inventory of Facilities for Persons who are Homeless | 2. Inventory of Services for Persons who are Homeless or Living in Transitional Housing |
| a. Emergency Shelter | b. Transitional Housing | c. Permanent Supportive Housing | d. Permanent Housing |
III C. HOMELESS FACILITIES
1. Inventory of Facilities for Persons who are Homeless
a. Emergency Shelter
Domestic Violence Intervention Program (DVIP): Sixty-bed emergency shelter for female victims of domestic violence and their children. New facility constructed in 1994.
Average use: 30 beds/night (limited capacity due to staffing, total capacity 60).
Average stay: 17 days; maximum stay is 90 days.
Total Persons sheltered FY98: 482
Total Number of shelter days: 5441
Emergency Housing Project (EHP): Twenty-nine-bed emergency shelter for homeless men, women, and accompanied minors. Turn-of-the-century single-family home converted for use as a shelter in 1984. Upgrading of kitchen, office space, and fire safety measures occurred in 1992. Additional improvements were made in 1998 and 1999 with CDBG funds.
Average use: 29 individuals/night
Average stay: 9.75 days; maximum stay is 90 days.
Total Persons sheltered FY98: 835
Total Number of shelter nights: 9048
Youth Homes, Youth Emergency Shelter: Fourteen-bed shelter for unaccompanied minors in crisis. Facility was constructed in 1987 as halfway house for persons released from prison; adapted for use as a youth shelter in 1994.
Average use: 12 beds/night
Average stay: 14days
Total Admissions FY99: 250 unaccompanied youth
b. Transitional Housing
Transitional housing serves as a bridge between shelter and permanent housing by providing housing with supportive services to assist individuals towards greater independence.
HACAP- Hawkeye Area Community Action Program: Twenty-eight units of supported transitional housing for families. The program includes 6 mobile homes, 4 houses, and 18 apartments. HACAP is in the process of acquiring 8 more units.
Average use: All 28 units are full (75 individuals); there is a waiting list of several dozen eligible families.
As the only transitional housing program for families in the community, HACAP's program always has long waiting lists. Very little turnover within the program means families can sometimes wait two years for an available space. The situation has at times becomes so desperate that HACAP staff has reluctantly suggested families look to other communities for more affordable housing opportunities.
Hillcrest Family Services, Birch Street House: Five-bed group home that accommodates adults with serious mental illness. Emphasis is placed on skill building and development for reentry into the community.
Average use: 5 individuals; seasonally fluctuating waiting list of 1-10 individuals.
D&K Properties/Successful Living:
Alpha House: Twenty-one SRO style rooming units for persons living alone and working. Residents must utilize support services. Maximum stay is two years.
Dodge Street: Nine SRO style rooming units for persons living
alone and working.
Youth Homes:
Church Street House: Three-bedroom (maximum of three individuals) transitional, group home for homeless youths under age 18.
Average use: 3 individuals.
Average stay: 6 months to 1 year.
Johnson Street House: Five-bedroom, transitional group home for unaccompanied youth (age 16-20). Older home converted for transitional housing use in 1990.
Average use: 4-5 individuals; waiting list develops as school year proceeds.
Average stay: 6 months to 1 year.
Average use: 10 individuals.
Average stay: 1 year.
The Youth Homes facilities operate at capacity as the school year progresses. It is at this time that waiting lists develop and space becomes a problem.
c. Permanent Supportive Housing
Chatham Oaks: 114-bed, 24 hour residential care facility for persons with disabilities. The majority of residents have some form of mental illness. Chatham Oaks provides rehabilitative activities and encourages community involvement.
Average use: 90 individuals.
Hillcrest Family Services, Bowery Street Boarding House: Nine-beds for clients of the Supportive Living Program. Support and training is provided to assist persons with psychiatric disabilities to live independently in the community.
Average use: 9 individuals.
REM-Coralville: Eight-bed residential environment for adults with developmental disabilities. This is a private, for profit, long-term care facility featuring outside supportive work environments, and 24-hour supervision.
Average use: 8 individuals.
Systems Unlimited Residential Environments: Thirty-one group living environments at scattered sites throughout the community with a total of 160 beds providing permanent supportive housing for persons with developmental disabilities. The program provides support and training to help each individual maximize personal abilities. Systems Unlimited houses 21 children and 139 adults with developmental disabilities.
d. Permanent Housing
Assisted Housing Programs: Administered by the Iowa City Housing Authority, the programs provide rental assistance to 1,008 units in two programs: Public Housing and Housing Choice Voucher Program vouchers.
TABLE III.14
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Number and Size of Units Assisted by
Iowa City Assisted Housing Programs (6/30/99) |
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Program |
Eff. |
1-BR |
2-BR |
3-BR |
4-BR |
5-BR |
Total |
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Public Housing |
-- |
-- |
24 |
59 |
18 |
-- |
101 |
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HCVP Existing (Vouchers) |
19 |
253 |
448 |
172 |
14 |
1 |
907 |
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Total |
19 |
253 |
472 |
231 |
32 |
1 |
1,008 |
Private Low-Income Housing:
Both Cedarwood and Pheasant Ridge, private apartment complexes in Iowa City, received HUD funding for original construction and on-going operating costs. Both complexes serve low-income residents.
| Cedarwood: |
63 units, all 2 bedrooms. Average Use: capacity, with a waiting list of 25 households. |
| Pheasant Ridge: |
231 of the 248 units are reserved as assisted units. 77 1-bedroom, 76 2-bedroom, 70 3-bedroom, and 8 4-bedroom assisted units. Average Use: capacity with a waiting list of 40 households. |
Villa Gardens: Developed by a local for-profit developer using a variety of funding sources including CDBG, Tax Increment Financing from the City of Iowa City, and Federal Home Loan Bank funds.
48 units of affordable rental housing.
16 3-bedroom units, and 32 2-bedroom units.
Average Use: capacity with a waiting list of 14 households.
Non Profit Low-Income Housing:
Greater Iowa City Housing Fellowship (GICHF):
74 units of affordable rental housing throughout Iowa City.
22 duplexes (1 1-bedroom, 11 2-bedroom, 10 3-bedroom units) at scattered sites throughout the community.
9 2-bedroom scattered site condos.
16 townhouses (8 2-bedroom, 8 3-bedroom).
27 single-family homes (4 2-bedroom, 20 3- bedroom, 3 4-bedroom). One of the 3 bedroom units is rented to HACAP's transitional housing program.
Greater Iowa City Housing Fellowship uses a variety of funding sources for development of its programs including HOME, CDBG, and private lenders and contributors.
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