In the past seven years, nearly $17 million dollars from the HOME
Investment Partnership program was returned to HUD for failure of a
participating jurisdiction to meet the statutory two-year commitment
requirement. That is, each year HUD allocates HOME funds. Recipients,
state and local participating jurisdictions, must commit how these funds
will be actually spent within two years. If this requirement is not
satisfied, the uncommitted HOME funds must be returned to HUD as and they
are lost by the participating jurisdiction.
As was explained in recent Information Bulletins, HOME funds can be used
as Tenant Based Rental Assistance grants for low income persons. These are
like housing vouchers. Given the desperate need for housing vouchers, it
is quite amazing and depressing that the following jurisdictions, rather
than allocate the funds as Tenant Based Rental Assistance, returned these
HOME funds because the jurisdiction did not commit them to TBRA grants.
Here are the jurisdictions and the amount of HOME funds lost:
| Jurisdiction |
Amount of HOME
Funds Lost |
| ADAMS COUNTY CONSORTIUM, CO |
$79,191.00 |
| ALLENTOWN, PA |
$114,460.60 |
| ARECIBO, PR |
$289,719.00 |
| ATLANTIC CITY, NJ |
$119,997.00 |
| BALDWIN PARK, CA |
$140,449.92 |
| BALDWIN PARK, CA |
$78,358.08 |
| BRIDGEPORT, CT |
$140,432.00 |
| BRIDGEPORT, CT |
$250,000.00 |
| BUFFALO, NY |
$311,053.71 |
| COMPTON, CA |
$162,332.00 |
| DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, DC |
$1,947,585.00 |
| DOWNEY, CA |
$38,700.00 |
| EAST CLEVELAND, OH |
$28,956.00 |
| EAST ORANGE, NJ |
$116,607.52 |
| EAST ORANGE, NJ |
$258,912.00 |
| EL CAJON, CA |
$14,104.25 |
| ELIZABETH, NJ |
$206,119.00 |
| FLINT, MI |
$155,985.00 |
| FORT BEND COUNTY, TX |
$149,732.00 |
| FORT BEND COUNTY, TX |
$266,023.87 |
| FORT BEND COUNTY, TX |
$41,853.00 |
| GLENDALE, CA |
$103,995.00 |
| GUAYNABO, PR |
$31,441.00 |
| HATTIESBURG, MS |
$69,846.00 |
| HATTIESBURG, MS |
$500.00 |
| HATTIESBURG, MS |
$70,346.00 |
| HAWTHORNE, CA |
$24,125.80 |
| HUNTINGTON BEACH, CA |
$91,200.00 |
| HUNTINGTON BEACH, CA |
$291,900.00 |
| HUNTINGTON BEACH, CA |
$102,750.00 |
| HUNTINGTON BEACH, CA |
$89,550.00 |
| HUNTINGTON BEACH, CA |
$113,700.00 |
| HUNTINGTON BEACH, CA |
$90,800.00 |
| HUNTINGTON BEACH, CA |
$95,700.00 |
| INGLEWOOD, CA |
$149,656.08 |
| IRVINGTON TOWNSHIP, NJ |
$236,609.00 |
| JEFFERSON PARISH
CONSORTIUM, LA |
$15,497.59 |
| JOHNSTOWN, PA |
$3,431.00 |
| LAKE CHARLES, LA |
$105,311.00 |
| LOUISIANA, LA |
$2,052,579.00 |
| LYNWOOD, CA |
$342,880.00 |
| LYNWOOD, CA |
$342,880.50 |
| MAYAGUEZ, PR |
$779,470.00 |
| MILWAUKEE, WI |
$347,000.00 |
| MILWAUKEE, WI |
$157.00 |
| MODESTO, CA |
$292,298.95 |
| MONTEREY PARK, CA |
$113,800.00 |
| MUSKEGON, MI |
$437,657.92 |
| NEWARK, NJ |
$833,309.00 |
| NORTH LITTLE ROCK, AR |
$31,008.70 |
| NORWALK, CA |
$94,900.00 |
| NORWALK, CA |
$37,273.00 |
| NORWALK, CA |
$16,000.00 |
| NORWALK, CA |
$85,583.48 |
| PARAMOUNT CITY, CA |
$106,504.95 |
| PASADENA, TX |
$475,240.00 |
| PASSAIC, NJ |
$58,501.00 |
| PATERSON, NJ |
$1,226,610.00 |
| PONCE, PR |
$422,332.00 |
| ROSEMEAD, CA |
$172,550.00 |
| ROSEMEAD, CA |
$65,550.00 |
| ROSEMEAD, CA |
$67,200.00 |
| ROSEMEAD, CA |
$339,200.00 |
| SAN ANGELO, TX |
$37,952.22 |
| SAN ANGELO, TX |
$151,178.78 |
| SHREVEPORT, LA |
$353,655.04 |
| SUMTER COUNTY CONSORTIUM, SC |
$136,297.50 |
| TAMPA, FL |
$175,873.00 |
| TARRANT COUNTY CONSORTIUM, TX |
$9,679.00 |
| TYLER, TX |
$35,704.00 |
| VALLEJO, CA |
$322,289.00 |
| WATERBURY, CT |
$95,484.00 |
| WHITTIER, CA |
$64,193.60 |
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