{"id":"SEC-24-001","kind":"order","level":"federal","jurisdiction":"United States (HUD Community Planning and Development grantees: Continuum of Care, Emergency Solutions Grants, HOPWA, CDBG, HOME)","state":"","metro":"","industry":"24","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Community Planning and Development (John Gibbs, Acting Assistant Secretary)","authority":"24 C.F.R. 5.110 and 91.600; 24 C.F.R. 576.107, 576.401, 576.106, 578.75, 578.103; McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act","instrument":"Memorandum, Availability of Waivers of Community Planning and Development Grant Program and Consolidated Plan Requirements to Prevent the Spread of COVID-19 and Mitigate Economic Impacts Caused by COVID-19","title":"Availability of Waivers of CPD Grant Program and Consolidated Plan Requirements to Prevent the Spread of COVID-19 and Mitigate Economic Impacts Caused by COVID-19","dateIssued":"2020-03-31","effective":"2020-03-31 (each recipient may use a waiver two days after notifying its CPD Field Office)","end":"Waiver periods stated per item (six months to one year).","startDate":"2020-03-31","endDate":"2021-03-31","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1"],"types":["OTHER","EMP"],"addressees":["ESG and CoC recipients and subrecipients (shelter, outreach, rapid re-housing and homelessness-prevention providers)"],"clause":"This memorandum explains the availability of waivers of certain regulatory requirements... for the following CPD programs:... Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG); and Continuum of Care (CoC).... 11. Re-evaluations for Homelessness Prevention Assistance... The required frequency of re-evaluations for homelessness prevention [is waived] so long as the recipient or subrecipient conducts the required re-evaluations not less than once every 6 months. 12. Housing Stability Case Management... [24 CFR 576.401(e) monthly case management requirement waived]... The condition that the recipient must be the HMIS Lead to pay costs under 24 CFR 576.102(a)(2) is waived... Provisions that are not specifically waived remain in full effect.","enforcement":"Grant conditions; recipients must document justification and notify the CPD Field Office two days before use","functions":["FD shelters and homelessness prevention (operating rules rewritten)","FS case management (remote; frequency waived)","OP grant administration and HMIS","CB clients served remotely","PY funder conditions"],"notes":"The first of the HUD \u0027mega-waiver\u0027 memoranda; it waived CoC and ESG rules on FMR limits, disability documentation, monthly case management, initial and annual habitability inspections, one-year leases and the 30-day public-comment period so that shelters and rapid re-housing providers could operate under distancing. It is the federal operating charter of the shelter function in Q2 2020.","sourceUrl":"https://www.hud.gov/sites/dfiles/CPD/documents/Availability-of-Waivers-of-CPD-Grant-Program-and-Consolidated-Plan-Requirements-to-Prevent-the-Spread-of-COVID-19-and-Mitigate-Economic-Impacts-Caused-by-COVID-19.pdf","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":133385,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"SEC-24","url":"/library/SEC-24-001","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/SEC-24-001","citation":"Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Community Planning and Development (John Gibbs, Acting Assistant Secretary), Memorandum, Availability of Waivers of Community Planning and Development Grant Program and Consolidated Plan Requirements to Prevent the Spread of COVID-19 and Mitigate Economic Impacts Caused by COVID-19 (Mar. 31, 2020) (Ex. SEC-24-001)","stateName":"","related":[]}